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. He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life.

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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

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. He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Mean Lux points to an excellent post that summarizes the all the online support in addition to the Facebook activity. The post gives us a screen capture from Google Trends , but it doesn't mention what has been happening in Second Life - for example virtual red t-shirts , and human chain protests ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts. The Obama Girl. However, the focus is on Content.

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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

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

" Stow Boyd goes on to observe that most "enlightened" corporate management supports personal development. Anything like enlightened management will actively support personal development to the degree that it does nothing destructive, and it should, within limits, be willing to bear the apparent costs incurred.

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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.??? Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog.

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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

to support programs and exhibits. A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. 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. 1, it would be a lot of work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." I don't entirely trust these reports. They were both commissioned by organizations whose purpose is to support museums and libraries. Why don't we stand behind our words the way reporters do?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

The customer used the event to galvanize support for artificial reefs as a way to protect sea life. But there are few "hooks" for action or financial support that resonate more than the time sensitivity of a live event. Or it can be the primary focus of a marketing campaign. Why or why not? The future is live.

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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).

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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).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

As of October 9th, Obama's campaign had more than 2 million Facebook supporters, with John McCain at 565,000 and Ralph Nader at almost 10,000. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. eLECTIONS is an interesting example of civics for young people, updated from 2004.

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