Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

second life, ??? but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. this adoption approach sounds familiar? Check out the Nonprofits and Second Life Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

If an organization can accomplish these two goals with their story then do award them bonus points for features such as visual and/or sound quality. If you can’t join the awards ceremony in person, you can always join via live web streaming or in Second Life.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

Imagine that organizing your thoughts and writing were laborious tasks and identifying letters and sounds was a daily struggle for you. Ordyslexie is not just a electronic school bag or tablet PC, but a socially innovative project that can change the lives of dyslexic children while giving a second life to tablet PCs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

It's time to strike up a conversation backed by sound research, philosophy and experience. A podcast interview with TechSoup's Susan Tenby and Salvador Luna about TechSoup's Mixed Reality Event last month on Second Life. There is also a podcast interview with Jeska Linden from Linden Labs, creators of Second Life.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

Now, not to sound crass, if I add someone to my LinkedIn network, I really think before I send the invite - can this person help me with a connection to something I'll need in the future? While the plugin makes it easy to expand your network, you have to think about your contact acquisition behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

This sounds like a more rewarding way to use your social presence updates. You can find her Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, Second Life and many other online communities. Alexandra closes her post with some great questions: What did you do today that moved your work, your organization or your personal practice forward?

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. for Good has some interesting examples up right now of how their tools can be used for good. Because Yahoo! Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. All the candidates. There's a nonprofit track.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Yes, it sounds overwhelming when David talks about monitoring all the boards on the USHMM website. Once they are running, any of these projects, even the ones that sound most ambitious, tend to require part-time maintenance and management, not full-time employees. It must be working for them--they have over 2000 virtual "friends."

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. The man will come running up to your desk screaming “I just saw a demonstration of [A] and we need to start using this in our campaigns!”, In other words: try to act as, or at least like, an individual.

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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. The exhibit ones are easy—lots of installation art bits, sound floors to dance on—but the packaging isn’t coming to me. And it keeps. Coming back.

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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. I'm working with speech to text software to filter outside sound and create poems.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?" Be an ambassador (as cheesy as that sounds), validate fears, and then assuage them. Unclear application. Why should I use Facebook? Does my virtual pet really need a social network?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing. Sounds kind of like traditional PR tactics, nest-ce pas?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing. Sounds kind of like traditional PR tactics, nest-ce pas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising. Second Life KnowProse blog publishes a press release about their new office in Second Life. And, for a quick summary of recent Second Life stats, see here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I'm doing some experience design within the virtual world of Second LIfe, where I am humblingly, and somewhat embarassingly, a newbie. The talented people with whom I work, who make my content come alive, are the experts of Second Life, and they navigate the world and its quirks with the confidence of experience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

It just may begin with the sound of powering on a video game. " As academics, activists — and even gamers of old — harness and reinvent the power of gaming as a new medium for social change, kids will keep imagining and designing a better world for us all. Photo: Br3nda.

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