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He was participating via SecondLife as an on-screen avatar. Two-thirds of our panelists were in the top 10 of all evaluations (Steve Daigneault / Amnesty International and Tim Fullerton / OxFam America) and the overall evaluation of our session was very high. You can read more about it on Barry’s blog.

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Recap: Social Media for Social Impact

Forum One

Susan Tenby explained how TechSoup helped non-profits establish a presence in SecondLife , demonstrating how the virtual world can be used to disseminate information and also act as a venue for people to meet. In SecondLife, Tenby described time as currency. s " You In? " campaign that encouraged random acts of kindness.

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My (co) article on TechSoup about Second Life and Nonprofits!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Tags: secondlife. We interviewed three nonprofit trailblazers -- Dave Pentecost (also known as avatar "Usu Ventura"), Barry Joseph ("Globalkids Bixby"), and Evonne Heyning ("In Kenzo") -- all from youth organizations doing projects in Second Life and pictured below!

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Games for Change: June 11-12th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm on a panel with Susan Tenby of TechSoup and Evonne Heyning from Amoration Studios about Nonprofits in Secondlife. (here's my blog posts ) So, I'm delighted to post this announcement for this year's Games for Change - and guess what? For this panel, I'm contributing a community wiki about the topic here.

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Swedes open embassy in Second Life - CNN.com

AFP Blog

Tags: SecondLife.

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First Thoughts on Second Life

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Tags: nptech , secondlife , ACS

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NetCentric Advocacy: When Campaign 2.0 Met Citizen 2.0: A Confusing Love Story | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

Network-Centric Advocacy

Our campaigns must be aware that people can and do self-organize outside walled gardens our campaigns try to build from Obama and Harry Potter Alliance on myspace, to alumni associations on linked-in, to Hillarys Campaign headquarters in Secondlife. People will organize around your campaign without you. How do these worlds mesh?

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Secondlife seems to me to lend itself much more to the environment end of the spectrum. m reminded of one of the four dichotomies which emerged from my research into current thinking about distributed communities of practice last year.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. They are calling on Americans nationwide to gather and hold silent, candlelight vigils to mourn those lost, reminiscent of the vigils after 9/11. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Tags: second_life , sl , secondlife And while it was loads of fun, my Cambodian colleagues would be left out because they don't really have the bandwidth or computer power to participate.

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nfp 2.0 » What does Second Life success look like for non-profits?

Rebooting Charity

Taran Rampersad (Nobody Fugazi) Says: December 22nd, 2006 at 7:26 am One of the key problems I find with NGOs in SecondLife is that they sort of exist… in a vacuum. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. 4 Responses to “What does Second Life success look like for non-profits?&#