Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do. I mention this only because my life is now directly impacted by cancer in ways I could not have predicted a few months ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. If you're curious, skeptical, or trying to wrap your brain around the possibilities of nonprofits in Second Life, put July 18th 6:00 PM PST on your calendar. Details will be available soon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Photo by Spike 55151 I read recently that the reason for "senior moments" - you know when you can't quite recall someone's name in an instant - is because the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information.     (See above). 

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

No hands, no brain, just a wheeled lightbulb pumping out deadly light: UV robots certainly show how limited health care automation is right now. Having a physical avatar for these visits makes a huge psychological difference, staff tell The Verge. Tullamore is now expanding its trials of Violet to cover more spaces within the hospital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away. So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Bigthinx – AI technology focused on fashion retail, wellness and the metaverse with products for body scanning, digital avatars and virtual fashion. – Virtual reality brain training company that helps reclaim focus in an increasingly distracted world. The Metaverse. NeuroTrainer, Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Docker had faded somewhat from my brain in the last few years, but that revenue number indicates that we should probably start paying attention once again. It’s also the name of a startup that is building a “digitally native human workplace where employees can customize an avatar in the workplace.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. " Web 2.0,

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

One, which used the name Jeff Jeffries, said they worked at Google Brain and used a photo of a Black man in their avatar photo. This opinion was echoed by anonymous Twitter accounts that claimed to belong to Google employees. A Google spokesperson confirmed that neither of these people works at Google.).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

It uses notification bombardment, interactive moving avatars, and level-based modules that trick the brain into learning easily as well as continuously and climbing the leaderboard. One of the best examples to understand the concept of gamification would be Duolingo, an application that helps users learn new languages.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

It uses notification bombardment, interactive moving avatars, and level-based modules that trick the brain into learning easily as well as continuously and climbing the leaderboard. One of the best examples to understand the concept of gamification would be Duolingo, an application that helps users learn new languages.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

It uses notification bombardment, interactive moving avatars, and level-based modules that trick the brain into learning easily as well as continuously and climbing the leaderboard. One of the best examples to understand the concept of gamification would be Duolingo, an application that helps users learn new languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

People generally know what it is that they SHOULD be doing, but what they ACTUALLY do is often related to things beyond the rational side of their brain. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? Sometimes this approach works, but more often it falls flat and is ineffective. Successful social marketers tap into people???s

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2021

Over a decade of muscle memory has trained my brain to reach up for the menu bar on smartphones. Lastly, you can now put your Memoji avatars in outfits. I’m still getting used to it, even with a few days of use under my belt, and of all the additions in the latest software update, I suspect it’ll be the most polarizing.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

I have a friend with a GPS-enabled running watch that tracks his path, and then shows a little animation of an avatar representing him on his last run to "race" the same trail. alpha brain waves game I always see at ASTC. You can sign up to track your web travels on Firefox in real time and get rated on different kinds of usage.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. I picture Yoda stumbling as he experiences “a disturbance in the force” when an entire, populated planet is destroyed by the Death Star. Listen, I’m not just a worst-case-scenario person.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The first showed off its life-like Codex avatars and an environment for them to exist in, which the company says was rendered in real-time and reacted to real-world objects. According to Meta, this is both a virtual avatar and a virtual environment. According to Meta, this was rendered in real-time.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about Airtable, Plaid and all your darn AI avatars. All your AI avatars. My new flex is that I don’t have an AI avatar, and I’m only a little insecure about it! The company behind these magic avatars is Lensa AI, which has unsurprisingly been climbing up the app store.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 31, 2025

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. Its not the first brain implant to give a paralyzed person their voice back. Barely middle-aged, a stroke severed the neural connections between her brain and the muscles that control her ability to speak.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Arizona’s highest court has created a pair of AI-generated avatars to deliver news of every ruling issued by the justices, marking what is believed to be the first example in the U.S. The AI-generated avatars were the most efficient way to produce videos and get the information out, said court spokesperson Alberto Rodriguez.

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