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APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. Andreessen Horowitz led the company’s recent $56 million raise into the company that is building dynamic, animated game avatars for virtual worlds, Ingrid writes. The company raised $9 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Nearly a year later, he’s announcing that his new venture firm, Seven Seven Six , has raised $150 million for its first fund. ” Ohanian explained that, when he was going through Y Combinator, he was going through a rough time in his personal life. Itsme , an Avatar-based social platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Level up your avatar : Reddit is getting deeper into the NFT game by launching a new avatar marketplace, Ivan writes. The life insurance company, which has a wellness and gamification focus, was previously valued at $70 million. Kyle reports on Traba’s $20 million raise to match contractors with warehouse and fulfillment jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. To make life easier the boxes will grow bigger and after about an hour they will disappear. The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Jeff replies, "Dad, I spent the morning at my private foundation office in Second Life where my avatar raised $600 which I then took to donorschoose.org to buy textbooks for a class I adopted." Rick Federn enters his son, Jeff's room. Jeff is on the computer. Rik asks him what he's up to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Which is why Twestival Local hopes to challenge city organizers with two important questions with their selected cause: (1) What will the not-for-profit do with the funds raised? . I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

At Harvard Law School in real life via the Berkman Center, there was an fascinating discussion tonight called " Legal education in a networked world." You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The company is using AI to create text-to-video solutions with realistic-looking human avatars. The company raised $5 million back in 2020 , was taking on the language learning vertical and raised another $20 million in a round that closed in April of this year. Hour One raised its $20 million round with a tight 11-slide deck.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This post will provide an overview of Roblox’s business results, and a quick dig into its history of raising private capital and who owns what in the company as it stands today. While private, Roblox raised $335.7 After its IPO, Unity shares have rocketed, perhaps preparing the public markets for Roblox’s own debut. Who owns what?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

NextView Ventures announced today that it has raised a $200 million venture fund, its largest to date, split between an early-stage vehicle, at $135 million, and an opportunity vehicle, at $65 million, Natasha M reports. Moar data, moar funds : Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3 million , reports Tage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. I didn't know Sombit until I met him - as they say - "in-world" in Second Life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause." Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. Because Yahoo!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

” “We have found that some of our most meaningful consumer interactions have been with people using our product at the end of life. The company raised a $4 million round led by Mayfield , followed by a $11 million round led by psychedelic life sciences-focused investor Vine Ventures and Mayfield in June last year.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

. • JD Lasica (that’s me) offered a one-stop shop for resources on how nonprofits and cause organizations can use social tools : a landing page that aggregates resources on social networking tutorials, handouts, top fund-raising tools and much more. Also, download this free flyer on 12 steps to mobilize your cause.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Founded out of San Francisco in 2020 by CEO Hassaan Raza and Quinn Favret, Y Combinator (YC) alum Tavus today announced that it has raised $6.1 Questions raised by such scenarios will continue as AI becomes more ingrained in our everyday lives.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Battery life is similar to the Quest, clocking between two and 2.5 In more concrete terms: it lets the Quest run Half-Life: Alyx , one of the best VR games to date. You can keep a separate friends list on the two platforms, and your profile still shows a VR avatar that you create. hours for a gaming session.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. Examining digital people raises a mirror to our own faces, of what we want to see in our workforce and labor and how we see those doing the same work right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Blog is here ) There are some excellent questions raised about the impact of technology on the way people do their. See this one-page parody of Second Life. " Web 2.0,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This week, TC’s Sarah Perez spotted the rise of AI art apps all over the App Store , seemingly jumping off the success of Lensa AI’s viral avatar generators. Here are some of the fun and imaginative gift guides that the TC staff put together this week: 9 high-tech gift ideas for the cannabis users in your life. Gift guide corner.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 22, 2005

To date, the program has raised more than $1.5 27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Pledges will be made in Second Life's virtual currency, though they will be converted to dollars before being passed along to the cancer society.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? The Give and Take Blog raises a question " Are anonymous blog authors as credible as those who write under their real names ? era websites.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1. Let’s start with the basics.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. It just suddenly means they got caught up in life and they’re busy and they need to be reminded. . Just remember, it is not personal if they don’t give, it’s just life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. That said, there are NFTs that are being sold to raise money for charity with many, many more to come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. Schedule things, and have a single coordinator for the life of the campaign. Last week, we helped out our friends at Visible Government with their Beers for Canada campaign.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

In broad strokes, the fcd is just an gaming extension of life logging--passive data collection about all kinds of aspects of life. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Make A Wish Donation Box in Second Life On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. In Second Life, you can build a 3-D display and donation box where avatars can contribute Linden dollars. I contribute to this charity in real life too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life. Namely that it isn't enough just to shame people.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

D-ID , the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia ,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos, announced today the raise of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Macquarie Capital. … Two, we’re doing it fast.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

“Bring your ideas to life” : Microsoft’s Ignite conference was today (get the nitty-gritty in Big Tech Inc.), Diagrid raised $24 million to launch a fully managed Dapr service, Frederic reports. And here’s a smattering of a few more for your enjoyment and delight: Really going places : Oh look, TripActions raised at a $9.2

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

The dream of mixed reality is on life support In 2016, Magic Leap looked like it would change the world. The company had raised over $2 billion by promising incredible hardware that would open up a new artistic medium — the first plausible avatar for the long-held dream of mixed reality. . | Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. I'm doing a couple of notes for myself about ideas that some of the discussions raised for me. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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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

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. d certainly want to get on avatar and get the chance to chat with Mr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. " These are examples of vlog or blog raising - raising money from people via your blog.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 17, 2023

Or maybe they don’t see the connection between their donation and making a difference in someone’s life. Find New Donors with an Ideal Donor Profile Ok, hang on, because this is an old marketing tool called an avatar that I’ve adapted for fundraising. Maybe they haven’t given because they haven’t been asked. And definitely Ask.

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