Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. Next meeting is 10:30 a.m.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2009

The reason was because many participants in the room were participating from both Second Life and the room in San Jose, and they are doing so, in avatar form. Avatars are virtual alter egos, that are our embodiment (not always human, as I noted) in a virtual world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? So, my avitar joined the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Virtual Support Group in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

And, that's why I really enjoy being a member of Cpsquared community because I get to explore online technology tools (in this case for online facilitation/collaboration) with really thoughtful people. The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. I met with the group last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life. (IDI) Whos on Second Life?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

—– Tools for listening: Goodbyebuddy – find out when people aren’t listening to you any more. Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Check out listening tools at: [link].

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

From September 30 to October 21, TechSoup will host a free Digital Storytelling online event including expert roundtable discussions, nonprofit case studies, online discussions, live chat, and a community challenge with a final screening awards ceremony in the virtual world of Second Life. What do we mean by Digital Storytelling?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging? Something to read before jumping into using the tools. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week. Yet another great example of using Web2.0

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2009

Tools Web Building. The Health Panel Expo planning is coming together and the event is right around the corner! Here are the details! PRESS RELEASE.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

These tools are being used to announce educational opportunities and product availability and to communicate with nonprofit and library professionals and volunteers. Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life. Graves manages communications via TechSoup's many social media channels.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The team at TechSoup has brewed up a select menu of tools and strategies to provide a social media curriculum to conference attendees on how to explore Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and applications for engaging volunteers and supporters around the world. Get in Touch Via Twitter.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

David and Randy (I've presented with them several times, hugged them, had beers with them, I've even hung out in our Nonprofit Commons in Second Life virtual island with them, so yes, we are on a first name basis) reminded me that innovation doesn't just happen. The Scalable Edge of Innovation.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. The collaboration tools of tomorrow will need to offer us this same capability.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" Twitter is a micro-blogging and social networking tool. It's a super useful tool for tapping the collective wisdom of your network. I actually didn't know, so I asked my Twitter network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

There is a tool called TweetChat and as you can see from this week’s community chat conference , it grabs all the posts with the same hash tag, deposits them into a separate silo, giving you the experience of being in a separate chat room, rather than distributed all over Twitter, which is actually what is happening. suzboop on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. Crossplatform and Multichannel Integration: Tools, People, and Information.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. We’re leading up to it providing webinars and chats, but will be hosting an awards mixed reality event in February.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2010

This post originally appeared on the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life blog and was penned by DustyArtuad. NPC is happy to share that TechSoup Global won the open-vote portion of the Justmeans/Financial Times 2010 Social Innovation Awards. Great work everybody, and we deeply appreciate the help from the entire virtual community.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

It is redefining workforce learning methods and tools, allowing organizations to nurture their talent in the most effective way. Tools such as Google Hangout and Skype are increasingly being used as cost effective video conferencing training tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2010

With nearly 250 participants on the web conference and in Second Life, we had many people excited to get started: read more. We also had Sarah Manley from Wikia answering chat questions during the webinar.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

It also hosts the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , supports micro-volunteering efforts , and curates resources like the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. To keep up on trends and innovations, we continue to seek and try out new tools and follow industry experts.

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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. And finally, additional presentation resources, both articles and tools, can be found here: How to Deliver a Bad Presentation. Make Presentations Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. Now this should set the stage for an interesting debate!

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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

JULY 9, 2009

If religious orgs are serious about building and enhancing community, why are they so behind in leveraging the latest and greatest technology tools to do so? And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW,

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2006

My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week One). Article: Go Green with Virtual Meetings and Web Conferencing.

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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. Pacific at the TechSoup headquarters (525 Brannan Street, Third Floor) in San Francisco for the mixed reality awards screening party. Hope to see you tonight!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Useful Collaboration Tools. Collaboration Tools Chart. Online Collaboration Tools. A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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