Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

Wish you had the latest version of that pricey software? You can discuss this webinar on Twitter with the hashtag #techsoup or join us for a live-stream of the event in Second Life. Does your nonprofit or public library need better technology? Or sturdier hardware?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I arrived at the always-lovely TechSoup offices to discover a red carpet, tuxedo T-shirts, a cornucopia of food and drinks, and (oddest of all) a video screen displaying a giant drive-in style billboard located in the digital world Second Life. Later, a Transformer rolled up in Second Life. read more.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. The same with Second Life. Organizations hold meetings on Second Life, I put on a sexy female avatar with my breasts hanging out, and I'm just accepted. The Agency is deeply involved in Facebook," I was told. Just something to bear in mind, eh?

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Windows LiveMeeting — Our partners at Microsoft have been innovating web conferencing tools as convergence software , allowing for integration across Microsoft Office and Outlook in addition to synchronized audio and video. WebEx and GoToMeeting , available through TechSoup, offer free iPad apps and easy availability on mobile devices.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

NPLive’s second guest speaker was Nat Robinson, vice president for business development at SlideRocket , an online software tool for creating and measuring presentations. Presentations for Webinars. Leroux Miller kicked off the discussion by offering advice focused on online presentations. Make Presentations Social.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

By incorporating real legal and societal elements into the game, ProperLORDty's creators have ensured that the real life situation is getting more attention. The other speaker at the TechSoup Taiwan event, Marvin Jeng, was an independent software developer in Taiwan. Check out TechSoup's recap of Nonprofits Live: Gaming.

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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.??? OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

The software for a virtual meeting can be either a application downloaded on each attendee's computer or a web-based application where the attendees enter a URL to enter the conference. Vyew — a free browser-based web conferencing application that doesn't require users to download any software.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

Sage is giving away fundraising software. EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. GreenTech's TeleGreen Your Work campaign is underway. Nonprofit Commons is opening a new island. We're all excited for NTC. It's been a big week in the TechSoup universe. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? TechSoup Blog.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2009

If you're not in the Bay Area, you still join us by viewing the event in Second Life. Tags: Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Social Networking Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Pacific at the TechSoup headquarters (525 Brannan Street, Third Floor) in San Francisco for the mixed reality awards screening party.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Be Helpful.

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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. Speaking of CAMT, there's post on their blog about a giveaway by Members Only Software.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Advanced software, technology tools, and innovative methods are being used to enhance training program’s quality, participation and engagement as well as to enable corporate training to be a more personalized experience. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! A Better World In Second Life Blog is tracking political activism taking place in virtual worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Britt Bravo looks back on a poll from last year about recommending social networking software and points to recent spoofs about Facebook and Social Networking. You'll also need some video editing software. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

So much of the real-estate space in nonprofit rags is devoted to a) our own salaries; b) how to raise money; or c) what nifty new accounting software we should buy. A podcast interview with TechSoup's Susan Tenby and Salvador Luna about TechSoup's Mixed Reality Event last month on Second Life.

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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 open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Holly Ross. Deborah Finn.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

The TechSoup French partner, ADB Solidatech , a program of Les Ateliers du Bocage, refurbishes the tablet PCs, ensuring that all confidential data has been deleted, and installs operating systems and software like OneNote. ADB Solidatech also works to increase the impact of Ordyslexie by looking for funding and equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Software. a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Blackbaud, Inc.

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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 Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones. Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

So in the past month, the people who have jumped in are mostly people who are already familiar with the platforms we're using (the Web and Second Life ), primarily those already in Second Life. Not that that means that we are attracting solely gamers or the bored wanderers of Second Life. It's social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. Hurry the deadline is today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, 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

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Since the software is alpha, Allan raises some important questions about whether the site is reinventing the wheel or filling an important need in the nonprofit sector?" David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout. What do you think?

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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. But that's just a start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. Susie's Blog, winning hearts and minds over to FOSS, points to an interesting article about how to convince management to approve free software. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The winners get $65,000 in-kind contributions of consulting, hardware, and software. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0. Global NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. Free software, but expensive in terms of your time -Set out with minimal (achievable) goals and guidelines (policy) They differed in the audience building strategy and definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) tells us the difference between membership management software and crm. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. The post goes on to describe a Digital Asset Management System. There's also dogooder.tv

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Because we want to keep up with new software, and we’re never going to have the programmers to keep up. 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. Maybe the Tech will have that with your new project in Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Same as the blog, but requires a microphone and some audio editing software. In this case, staff are producing digital assets and managing a back-end program (read: software techies) to provide visitors with the content they want via passive tracking of usage. Start a podcast. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

They’re building in a big and barely searchable virtual worlds like Second Life and they want to create content that hooks people in and draws them to come back again and again. But the way the software allows you to drag your viewing window around the map is so fun, so excellent, that the program becomes captivating.

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