Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2010

I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki. With nearly 250 participants on the web conference and in Second Life, we had many people excited to get started: read more.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The switch is almost complete for email, and is underway for most enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) systems. . Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

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. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. So, I attended via Second Life where Rebecca Nesson was the in-world moderator and she was also at the real life event. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

This is the reality for thousands of 10-year-old dyslexic children in the French school system. The program also gives the children an organizational system that helps them automatically save their work and come back to it if they get distracted. With everyone working at the same pace, the class as a whole can stay more organized.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are also incorporating responsive designs to provide the most suitable content experience based on the screen size and resolution of learner’s device.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

Winners of the Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDigs) stand to receive exciting prizes from TechSoup’s generous donor partners like Adobe, Cisco Systems, Seagate, Citrix, Flickr, and SlideRocket. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system. 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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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It occurs when there is only the appearance of diversity, representation, or inclusion, and no effort is made to create substantial, systemic change. 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.

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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 !

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

@NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. santhonys of AShowalter.com suggested using the haiku Learning Management System , which on first glance looks pretty easy to use and ranges in price from free-$30/month. Pretty cool, huh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. Meet Shirley Williams. Her blog is called RedGloo. We met, I think, through CP Squared and Nancy White. It's her birthday on Friday!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Just remember that actions in SL can affect your life in the really real world. Now, will somebody please mash-up a system that sends us alerts when people nearby start to get phlegmy? Wired stakeholders. NTEN Member Beth J. YouTube as a political tool.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. I am a consultant and graduate student in complex systems and wanted an illustration of "self organization." 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

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

JULY 22, 2009

Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. The First C: Content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes. I know that Second Life can be a clunky, frustrating experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags." Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

I so need a better system. 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. " World Grows Wide blog talks about the Google Custom Search feature. Social Web. The Top Five Ways smart people are using twitter.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Gaming is testing ideas, proposing solutions, and moving through the system. How is the notion of gaming and practice of game part of a larger system. The game system: -in game -around game -outside game Ecology of play.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. I am a consultant and graduate student in complex systems and wanted an illustration of "self organization." 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Marc has this to say in another post about incorporating social networking tools: Find the time to explore an ever expanding menu of communications channels By simply believing that these channels have future (or present) value, we simply make some time to get to know these systems and how they work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Today, an interview with Shelley Bernstein , the Manager of Information Systems at the Brooklyn Museum, and the engine behind that museum’s fabulous forays into Web 2.0. One thing that can make it more manageable is the use of third party systems. It's great to see so many museums using 3rd party systems, like SFMOMA or LA MOCA's Wack!

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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. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The post goes on to describe a Digital Asset Management System. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. There's also dogooder.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I was so inspired by this story that I started looking into the rational for our intellectual property system, and found that it is centuries out of date, and heavily crafted by drug companies and Hollywood. The Brazilian government distributed this drug to each of their 203,000 AIDS patients free of charge.

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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. Peter Gulka had plenty to say about the lab. All the candidates.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

open collections databases like the Powerhouse Museum's tagging system , where visitors can add their own keyword tags to museum artifacts. In these examples, staff are continually producing new content and interacting with the community via comment boards and other uploaded user-generated content. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare? Yes, this means you will get more random solicitations from 5th graders writing book reports on your content.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Institutions like the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) are starting to webcast live coverage of certain board proceedings. It has featured celebrities like Carol Burnett to deliver messages about smoking cessation and the need for clean air. For other nonprofits, theyre off to a good start.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

At the same time, the Internet continues to mature as a gateway for “cloud computing,” in which remote datacenters host data and serve applications over the Web for use across a broad spectrum of devices and IT systems. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. I say wait for the MacArthur Foundation’s year-long exploration of the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds , and for significantly increased daily activity on Second Life, and in the meantime focus on video and other live action social media opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

When I talk with museum people about virtual worlds, the conversation usually centers on Second Life. But Second Life isn't the biggest, and it isn't the fastest growing. These virtual worlds are, as one father put it, "the cuddly G-rated version of Second Life." It's just the most open. And they're booming.

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