Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." I met with the group last week. Personally I think I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2007

When Sibley decided to start a Second Life -focused business last year, I thought he was nuts. I now believe in Second Life, not as a game environment, but as a new platform for social interactions with people, objects, and ideas. There have been lots of posts all over the place about Second Life and museums.

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JULY 18, 2007

When people talk about museum projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds, I'm often disappointed by the short-sightedness of the vision. Sadly, Robbie's goal was to use Second Life as a platform to create a 2D representation of the painting--so the 3D space of the painting is not available for visitors to explore.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now. phenomena.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

TechSoup serves numerous nonprofits, and answering the many technology-related questions posted to the forums is a task best handled by more than one person. Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This free event will take place across three separate platforms: webinars, forums, and the virtual world of Second Life. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and engage on a deeper level with the event hosts. Attend the Challenge Screening and Awards party at TechSoup Headquarters in San Francisco or from Second Life.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

David and Randy (I've presented with them several times, hugged them, had beers with them, I've even hung out in our Nonprofit Commons in Second Life virtual island with them, so yes, we are on a first name basis) reminded me that innovation doesn't just happen.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Rik Panganiban, community manager of TechSoup’s Nonprofits in Second Life online community, rounded out the lineup of speakers by offering tips gleaned from his experience giving presentations in mixed reality environments – advice that can also be used in the offline world. Presentations for Webinars. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. The discussion started with Fanton and Linden asking questions of each other. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options. Ask your technology questions in our TechSoup forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. So, I attended via Second Life where Rebecca Nesson was the in-world moderator and she was also at the real life event. The session opened with a question on whether students should be allowed to use laptops in the class to take notes or not.

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MAY 7, 2010

We also had Sarah Manley from Wikia answering chat questions during the webinar. With nearly 250 participants on the web conference and in Second Life, we had many people excited to get started: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. And, I got an instant response.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Questions or comments for the community team? We are committed to providing you with relevant, timely content in addition to helping you get the most out of all that TechSoup Global has to offer. Please be sure to connect with us in the following venues: Facebook. LinkedIn Group. TechSoup Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. Now this should set the stage for an interesting debate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. The mixed-reality discussion took place in real life at Seton Hall and in the virtual world, Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy. It enables people to give to people in need anonymously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

A new service called Qunu that uses IM to match people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help. Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. More information here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

One easy thing to do when you're listening, according to Homer, is to write down questions and anticipate what can go wrong in order to prevent any missteps that could damage further collaboration. Homer also advises setting up a dedicated time to work together and once together to really listen to one another and build relationships.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" Within minutes of posting the question, I received five ideas: 1. amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Define Goals and Objectives In storytelling for nonprofits, one of the most important questions you can ask is “why?” But it can get a second life with a short version condensed to fit into a series of photos or a 60-second Instagram Reel. Maybe the first version of the story is a long-form written narrative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Although I could participate via Second Life. Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine??? Check this out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. My next question was about being the first NTEN Award winner in Canada. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" I don't even know what it is, but she also posted the question with more details on her blog. " from Marnie Webb. Is Facebook becoming the default front end for nonprofits?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

This past Wednesday (October 24), CBS aired an episode of CSI: NY in which a killer uses Second Life to attract and hunt down her victims. The episode was a cliff-hanger, and viewers were invited to log on to a special CSI:NY-themed island in Second Life to continue the hunt for the murderer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? Asking questions about who people knew and for contact information. So, I started down this list that Lucy Bernholz has created, Online Social Networks and Second Life Philthanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? The Nonprofit Tech Blog is asking a question via LinkedIn - "As a donor, if you had one wish for the nonprofit sector, what would it be?

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