Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

Susan was asked about her role as the community director of TechSoup and the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and she discussed how the networks are connected to each other.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. Tags: events 10ntc netsquared nten presentation. How can you get more people involved by meeting them where they’re at? We’ll use the TSdigs event in October 2009 as a case study. Can’t wait to see you there!

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Holly Ross. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. Rachel Weidinger. is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile. Fundraising 2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life. WHAT: Awards and Screening Party for the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge. WHEN: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:00 p.m. Pacific time. TAG: #TSDIGS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

NTEN Member Beth J. Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Just remember that actions in SL can affect your life in the really real world. After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies. Wired stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. A Better World In Second Life Blog is tracking political activism taking place in virtual worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. Declaring Open Source - a one-line patch to the US Code would make open source software a charitable deduction. Other blog coverage here. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Check out NTEN's upcoming Webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. All the candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community.

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Care2

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Obviously NTEN can't fit in all these great panels in three days, so if I had to pick my top 10 favorite sessions, they would be – drum roll please: 1. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. " Doug Jacquier, CEO, CISA, Inc welcomed everyone and gave some context about CISA's growth and services over the past few years.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. There are many great sources on this topic -- many of whom present with and blog for NTEN and TechSoup. For a rich set of resources on this vast and exciting subject, be sure to check out NTEN's fantastic resource, We Are Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

I suspect NTEN's presence in Portland has something to do it! Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising. Second Life KnowProse blog publishes a press release about their new office in Second Life. And, for a quick summary of recent Second Life stats, see here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. If you can't to Naples and you're want to attend the Plone Conference, it is streaming into Second Life this week.

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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 ? NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. It didn't take too long before we dogs (a lab no less) has appeared on a nonprofit app called Managing News. More buzz here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. There's also dogooder.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? The annual international conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is taking place in Bali and in Second Life from December 3-8th. Net Tuesdays are spreading around the globe!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? So, here's NTEN's response. One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. technologies.

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