Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

For three months, Susan Tenby and two other colleagues responsible for preparing content for the TechSoup launch, lived on candy. These were the early or maybe even pre-Google days on the Web. She is also exploring how nonprofits can use Second Life, a multiplayer community on the Web. This was mainly because I wasn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Over the past few months, on my own time, I've been analyzing the content of slide shows on this site and identifying slide shows to add to a NpTech group which only has 9 members so far. Google: The Search Engine Industry. A Second Life for the Archivist. You can set up an account for free. Bottom-Up Tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. The On-Demand Nonprofit Katrin Verclas at NTEN examines the implications for nonprofits about the recent announcement of the free Google Premier Apps, a suite of on-demand Google services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? Google Aps. Ian Wilker is happy about the Google Apps Education Education being available to. nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. Many nonprofit want to "protect" their content. I believe in setting my own content free, but on the other hand I have to make a living. What is your advice for people who sell their knowledge/content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. Web-Based Software Apps The nonprofit marketing blog gives us some tips for using Google Checkout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

" Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. Here's a few: Web 3.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. See this one-page parody of Second Life. or more like web 1.0?) Need a chuckle?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

It may take you only a few minutes to create a blog, but doing so means (hopefully) a commitment to frequent content posts. Go to Technorati or Google Blog Search and put the name of your museum (or exhibit, or program, or.) activities you can initiate without requiring frequent content updates. The time cost of Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

So in the past month, the people who have jumped in are mostly people who are already familiar with the platforms we're using (the Web and Second Life ), primarily those already in Second Life. Not that that means that we are attracting solely gamers or the bored wanderers of Second Life. It's social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

They’re building in a big and barely searchable virtual worlds like Second Life and they want to create content that hooks people in and draws them to come back again and again. Viral content depends on carriers to make it valuable. Good content is compelling on its own merits. A great book is good content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. Google Earth launches Virtual Telescope: Sky as noted by the Viralroots blog where you can see both GoogleEarth and the sky. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? Perhaps your eStore products within Craigslist and so on.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? Perhaps your eStore products within Craigslist and so on.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

People are not choosing museums over google when they need to find something out, regardless of how trustworthy we are. Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. At first, it was a surprise.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. To me, this confirms as viable the strategy of finding those community leaders who will carry your torch for you, and then messaging them with content to distribute to their friends. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. A post that uses the metaphor of UNIX permissions to explain open content.

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