NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. If we expect productivity and results, we need to measure them.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

From goal to result. 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. These results can shape your communications strategy in amazing ways. From problem to solution. Use your nonprofit’s stories to show donors the change they can help create.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! In addition, no visuals either. and social networking tools? Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

You never know who you might connect with, and what may come as a result! The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life hosted a discussion on whether games can be used to create peace and Carlos Bergfeld asked whether games for social change need to be fun to be effective. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Fight Hunger is doing a lot of experimentation with social media - from their viral video contest to their fundraising event in Second Life. And from these experiments they probably have seen some results that gives intelligence to plan an even more effective social media integration strategy.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. I think a lot of museum people are waiting to see the result, how the whole exhibit cycle goes, before signing up to learn a new platform and engage resources in this way. And even better, these are experts who DO something.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. or to start their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. I look forward to reading about the results of Michele's experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. A wonderful side benefit is all of the new friends and colleagues I have met as a result of writing the blog and commenting on other blogs. I see that you???ve

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. In March, we selected the best of the virtual exhibits for translation into the real world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

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. There's a lot of work to be done, whether the results go on a wiki or a blog or a stone tablet."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. Darfur Is Dying was the result. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers. We identified four finalists. Peacemaker was the first place winner. To get gamers to hook up and play.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. So, the resulting report should be fascinating.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? Perhaps this is the result of Summer mixter at Google headquarters a few weeks back. It didn't take too long before we dogs (a lab no less) has appeared on a nonprofit app called Managing News. I really need a vacation. More buzz here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

What are the results? Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. Miles Maier has been blogging about his Web Office experiment for the past month or so. Anonymous Blogging.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2009

People internally think social media projects will bring with them an entire office of employees playing on Second Life and Facebook. Telling the results back to internal audience so that success/failure is acknowledge. Best tips on championing social media. Show small success along the way to keep people believing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Second C: Collaboration. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we faced up to really measuring the results of our work? They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. The presentation covered the background, planning, organizational culture, tool selection, blogging, building an audience, and results. What would ngos look like if they were completely virtual?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

SEO in firefox - extension lets you dig into your search results and tells you who your're doing. Joyce Bettencourt is a talented print and digital designer who also is doing some incredible work in Second Life. Website grader - useful tool to search trends. In your title, include keywords. I met her through Jane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Created an island in Second Life - to share the meaning of digital media in their lives. For example, the work from Hope Lab - evaluation of the results of their game. Don't have enough kids talking themselves. Global kids has been working with MacArthur to understand youth s as related digital media. Written essays from kids.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. I know of many nonprofits whove dipped their toe into MySpace with minimal success, but the results pretty much equal the resource investment so perhaps a savvy MySpace consultant could increase the results and such.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. I know of many nonprofits whove dipped their toe into MySpace with minimal success, but the results pretty much equal the resource investment so perhaps a savvy MySpace consultant could increase the results and such.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The result is a rapid boom and bust cycle that conveys the worst of "next big thing" mania. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?" thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. Toy stores have their toy of the year; Web 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

From that 383, only 150 organizations had profiles that appeared on the first two pages of results. If its a short term effort, youll probably be disappointed given the current results most groups are seeing, and it might be more realistic to see the medium as a way to spread the word about your brand among future potential donors.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

From that 383, only 150 organizations had profiles that appeared on the first two pages of results. If its a short term effort, youll probably be disappointed given the current results most groups are seeing, and it might be more realistic to see the medium as a way to spread the word about your brand among future potential donors.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Live webcasts tend to be much more costly than an on demand video, but the results can also be much greater. But there are few "hooks" for action or financial support that resonate more than the time sensitivity of a live event. Celebrities or experts can draw an audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Lesser results I see for Technorati, which to me is pretty much passe ( [link] ) — google blog search picks up a bit more [link]. For us giving three bloggers a special perch (and actually the table was cramped), electricity, and internet, we got amazing results. Other Tagged Stuff. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

So when you deal with Second Life, for example, it seems like an ideal place to do that, because you don't have to worry so much about the physical materials, so you could actually go in and put bits of an exhibition in lots of different places. And I usually love art that's annoying—but it wasn’t accessible enough.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Oxfam ran a campaign against Starbucks with a video being crucial to the resulting success. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. Funny, another negative note on Second Life. Developing custom Facebook apps may be the way to go, as already discussed on this blog. On YouTube : everyone loves video.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

Being forced to design inside the bizarre physics of the Second Life design environment has taken us places we wouldn't have gone with traditional exhibit design tools. But the other reason we avoid these little boxes is suspicion about the quality of the result. We've seen that happen with The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Either you value that target audience so much that you are willing to spend a high amount per visitor, or you value the result of that relationship and the way it can impact others. But in Second Life, we were building strong relationships and empowering those virtual members as exhibit designers.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

They work really well when you want to keep track of things like olympic results and electoral votes. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. Mapping – Electronic mapping is truly a community phenomenon.

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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. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. She also suggests strategies for encouraging your users to meet in the real world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

More on the study results from Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web and here. The results differ from a study released earlier this year. The annual international conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is taking place in Bali and in Second Life from December 3-8th.

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