Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc. Authoring tools and platforms allow you to find themes, templates and other resources that are needed for eLearning. Companies like IBM, Cisco are already using virtual platforms for meetings, interviews, and employee training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Rik Riel writes about the first professional orchestra to perform in Second Life. Mobile citizen reporting ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system. Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. Full report here )

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Just remember that actions in SL can affect your life in the really real world. Read more posts on our blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. The media here IS the service. So how do we propose to pay for it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed. Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. It also serves a resource leave behind! So, the resulting report should be fascinating. See this one-page parody of Second Life. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

I think it is the same in nonprofits, although the mistrust is more about the concern around how to invest very limited resources (money, time, and skills) wisely. With limited resources, nonprofits try to steer clear of fads. Of Second Life? Individuals, notably, adopt them for their own purposes. tool after Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day. It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? The Nonprofittech Blog has its first guest blogger, Doug Yeager, who is posting reports from DreamForce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. a lot, so it is really helpful to have a peek the annual series of Horizon Reports that have also flowed out of NMC's Emerging Technologies initiative.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. Were they really using it as a post-visit resource? That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

To date, the Transfair USA Change.org widget reports bringing in the most money ($942), which works out to be about 22 cents per friend. They, however, were a significant outlier; second most is ASPCA with $200 (less than a penny per friend). How much resources, both financial and manpower, should you pour into your MySpace campaign?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

To date, the Transfair USA Change.org widget reports bringing in the most money ($942), which works out to be about 22 cents per friend. They, however, were a significant outlier; second most is ASPCA with $200 (less than a penny per friend). How much resources, both financial and manpower, should you pour into your MySpace campaign?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. Be sure to make your tools easy to use, don't clutter people's mail boxes, say thank you (often) and follow up with progress reports so people know that they have made a difference. Additional resources can be found at: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. LinkedIn is jumping on the Charity Badge bandwagon reports the KK blog. The graphic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. NpTech Food Metaphors: The Where Most Needed blog reports that trans fat is not only unhealthy for your body, but can harm cookie-dependent fundraising campaigns. Have you signed the petition yet? Happy Birthday to drupal !

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