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The talk was also sponsored by Facing History, Facing Ourselves , Human Rights Watch , the Museum of African Diaspora , Marines' Memorial Association , Bay Area Darfur Coalition , Amnesty International and Stacey's Independent Bookstore. People from the Bay Area Darfur Coalition were handing out info. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers
October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. Here are a few examples of some month-long and two-week long online events: Maw Books Blog ran a Blogging and Reading for Darfur campaign last month. The theme for this year was poverty.
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. Virtual worlds provide an opportunity for social engagement with content, and 2. How would you define virtual worlds?
He began the talk by telling the story of the first time Google Earth was used for awareness raising by Rebecca Moore, Program Manager, Google Earth Outreach. Steve talked about how Google Earth can make the world a smaller place and add faces and places to statistics, like the USHMM's Crisis in Darfur layer does (pictured above).
You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. ve also been interested in watching what the American Cancer Society has done with its virtual walk-a-thon in Second Life. Aside from your blog, what do you think are the best blogs out there on this topic?
This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. But 36% discovered them through a friend’s profile.
But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. What is ironic is that the WDM has not learned to apply what they presumably have learned from their other campaigns into virtual space. It's been crazy busy last week and this week too.
The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. multi-user, virtual environments) might be particularly useful when. promote awareness. It caught mine as I'm interested in the role of play in problem-solving, what ever the scope of the problem. What existing and emerging game technologies (such as.
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