Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2009

We received over 100 submissions from nonprofits and libraries around the country (and world) who've shared their digital stories in video , photo , and GoldMail formats for the Digital Storytelling Challenge! If you're not in the Bay Area, you still join us by viewing the event in Second Life. Hope to see you tonight!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life. Chavez believes that the key to effective blogging is anticipating what the audience hopes to take from an educational event and guiding an audience to a greater understanding of a topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Be dure to check out some of his YouTube videos really funny and well done! I keep stumbling upon Paul's work all over the web - most recently he facilitated discussion on Second Life at Socialedge and a recent article CNET called Social Networking for All?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. The campaign.

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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. namo Bay. Blogger Rik Riel writes about his harrowing experience as a virtual prisoner there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. You'll also need some video editing software. Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week. Ruby Sinreich mentions that a RootsCamp will take place in Seoncd Life.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" " Today, they ask "Why do I need a video online?"

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

But wait a second, I could attempt to live blog remotely. because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater). and Catherine T.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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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. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. 15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I've been online since the days of early dial-up modems, so I was participating in social networks before the term "social media" was even used. Through Twitter, I became aware of your work with social causes. Docublogger video. You should also be building your own online network. Statesman blog.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 article.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. " I agree. How will these trends impact nptech? Using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign. Just the Write Click!

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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. This melting of boundaries will happen from inside out through individuals working in nonprofits using social networks to connect across silos and organizations.

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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. social marketing,??? I think to be successful, you also need to follow a systematic process for developing your social marketing strategy.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

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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 ? Donor Power Blog writes about success on YouTube and CrunchGear has a post about video compression and optimizing your video for YouTube - it's actually interesting! Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. Keywords in your profiles in your social networking site, like flickr. Website grader - useful tool to search trends.

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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. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice? What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Do you see yourself moving into video blogging?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. Again, add comments that give tantalizing information about the ancient vase behind the smiling girl or upcoming programs featuring those video-recorded light sabers. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. Then sheesh!

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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. They just finished a YouTube video contest. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant.

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