Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. Video is such an inclusive medium. The League of Women Voters of SF has found that making 1-3 minute (no longer than 5 min) videos gets much better pick-up online. The Alliance for Climate Education makes presentations about climate change to high schools around the US.

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MARCH 15, 2012

over 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries worldwide submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. This is a “red carpet” event!

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MAY 31, 2016

Video-Based Training: Video streaming has been around for quite some time, however, the new millennium has seen a sudden upsurge in the online streaming space, with YouTube becoming the second popular search engine after Google.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

Prizes include Flip videos cameras, Pro Accounts for Flickr and Sliderocket, Adobe Creative Suite products, Seagate portable hard drives and GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC. TSDigs winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony in San Francisco (and live-streamed online) on March 28.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket. For example, co-workers can update or add slides and users can share a library of images, video, and other content for presentations – benefiting from their group’s collective knowledge. Presentations for Webinars.

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JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Angelo was live blogging it remotely here and the flickr stream is here. People were also meeting up in Second Life at the Creative Commons sim. In the world, you could see a streaming video of the party in real life. In the world, you could see a streaming video of the party in real 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Torley Linden works for Linden Lab (Second Life). Here's his 60 second message and his is very expressive! I do a lot of video and photographs so I've added the flickr and video badges. Also, I have the RSS widget that streams the headlines from my employer's blog onto my personal blog. His notes are here ).

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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 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). You'll also need some video editing software. Rashmi Sinha offers some thoughts on how to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. 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 without leaving the virtual world!

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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. Peter Dietz gives us a video walk through of his site, Social Actions which focuses on micro-philanthropy. The topic is how to do have fun and do good!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! 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. Here's two roundups of links about social media and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. " 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!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Michelle Martin rounds up some recent videos from Michael Wesch , the creator of The Machine is US/ing Us , including his newest "Information R/evolution," it is about how digital information is qualitatively different from information on paper and how this changes the ways we think about how to store, use, access it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Virtual Worlds and Video Games Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games -- and replaces it with opinion with his "playable editorial cartoons." See this one-page parody of Second Life. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life. It turned into a day-long event that was live-streamed, with food donated by local merchants, and it attracted news coverage. Docublogger video. Statesman blog.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I met Boston area documentary filmmakers including Marie Agui Carter , Rhonda Moskowitz and Cheryl from Women in Film and Video New England. It was also great to see John Wall a second time this month! Jonny did a session on live streaming talk shows by doing a talk show. Not a bad idea to put a link in your twitter stream.

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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.??? Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog. Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog. All the candidates. Using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. Live Video Streams.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. Election 2008 searches the endless stream of "tweets" for key electon words (McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.) Rock the Vote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

" Britt Bravo is surprised that video is the most adopted tool and wonders whether it would be the same for smaller organizations. 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. Here's why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Here's a back to the future video from NTC back in 2000 when it was called the roundup. An Introduction to Activism on the Internet recently turned up in the tag stream, and while almost two years old, a solid primer. Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life.

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