Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning. Henry Jenkins [link]. Clay Shirky [link].

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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. More information here.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources. The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life hosted a discussion on whether games can be used to create peace and Carlos Bergfeld asked whether games for social change need to be fun to be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. What struck me was the code of ethics for Virtual Worlds: Virtual Worlds Act in second life like you would in your first life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I acquired my love of my words from my mom, who started teaching me to read when I was three, and who still, at age 84, delights in beating me at word games. 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. I'm a wordaholic.

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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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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. December 17, 2007 | Meghan Request permission to use your beautiful snowflakes picture in a course Im teaching. 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 29, 2006

s These uniforms are made by girls in our vocational program where we teach these young women sewing skills and pay them to work for our sewing shop or train them for higher paying jobs in the garment industry. So, if don't worry that we're over goal - there are many children who will benefit from the additional support. Ricardo Carreon.

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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. December 17, 2007 | Meghan Request permission to use your beautiful snowflakes picture in a course Im teaching. 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

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. ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. I see that you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

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. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Do you we teach coders the basic tenets of public diplomancy or vice versa? Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. This is a great place to do public diplomacy in the gaming world. We identified four finalists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

(And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma.

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MARCH 14, 2009

People internally think social media projects will bring with them an entire office of employees playing on Second Life and Facebook. AHS some people have worked in the organization their entire careers: not exactly open to change or new trends. Best tips on championing social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I've found that my generation has a habit of teaching ourselves new technologies, and I am no exception. Google, Flickr, Second Life and literally thousands of new companies depend on engaging users to make money, and the more people who engage with their content, the more money they make. Are you trained as lawyer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Created an island in Second Life - to share the meaning of digital media in their lives. If you're going to get it into 300,000 hands to teach re: diabetes. Don't have enough kids talking themselves. Global kids has been working with MacArthur to understand youth s as related digital media. Written essays from kids.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. We are teaching a 3 credit course for teachers that shows them how to use the very tools you mention and more as a way to support academic excellence. This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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MARCH 28, 2008

Community sites often maintain this back-channel discussion with users after launch, letting them know about scheduled outages and ways they are addressing community concerns (for example, the Second Life blog and community meetings). I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Be personal.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. We are teaching a 3 credit course for teachers that shows them how to use the very tools you mention and more as a way to support academic excellence. This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. This cross-platform event allowed for multiple levels of interaction with the single goal of teaching nonprofits how to tell stories digitally. We’ll use the TSdigs event in October 2009 as a case study.

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Care2

OCTOBER 14, 2009

This cross-platform event allowed for multiple levels of interaction with the single goal of teaching nonprofits how to tell stories digitally. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. We'll use the TSdigs event in October 2009 as a case study.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

" AMD president Dirk Meyer said in a statement, "We have a tremendous opportunity to harness the passion that kids have for gaming while teaching the skills they need to be successful in our 21st-century digital economy."

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