NPSL: Nonprofits in Second LifeTechSoup
San Francisco Meets the Metaverse 3
Posted May 23rd, 2008 by penguin kuhn
Highlights:
Dancing at Aloft Island Fun-Raiser
Posted May 17th, 2008 by gale.beckwithIf you didn't make it to the SL event on May 17, please consider helping three worthy causes with one simple donation.
A higher quality video is available on YouTube
Purpose, Benefit, and Successes in Second Life for your organization
Posted April 21st, 2008 by penguin kuhnAnika Pastorelli gave a presentation at our weekly meeting last Friday about the need to help the Nonprofit Commons (NPC) better articulate the rationale and benefits of nonprofits participating in NPC. Measuring impact, both qualitative and quantitative is a crucial part of our development efforts, so please take a moment to add your input to help support NPC:
1) Add your nonprofit experience on The Case for Non Profits in SL wiki page.
Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life: Nonprofit Commons Grand Opening
Posted July 23rd, 2007 by Glitteractica_CookieEvent is tonight at 5:30pm, SLT/PDT! In case you can't get into the Plush Nonprofit Commons, the overflow sim is at SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Lake%20West/127/1/26
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Contact: Susan Tenby, susan@techsoup.org
Phone: (415) 633-9333
SL avatar: Glitteractica Cookie
http://www.nonprofitcommons.org
http://npsl.wikispaces.com/
San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. PT/SLT, in their new locations at the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life.
TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons and Beth Kanter in New York Times today!
Posted June 22nd, 2007 by Glitteractica_CookieThe New York Times covered our group and project in today's NY Times. Here's the blurb about our group:
More than 30 nonprofits have opened offices in a virtual business incubator in Second Life called the Nonprofit Commons that is operated by TechSoup, a group that helps other nonprofits with technology.
Not bad for a lil' fledgling group like ourselves!
Tagging Tutorials -- Part I Flickr
Posted May 1st, 2007 by CreechMy next few posts will deal with tagging on different social networking sites. This first tutorial will focus on Flickr.
In all the social networking sites that you might post to, there is something in common--tagging. Simply put, tags are little pieces of data that let people know what your information--whether it be an image, a video, or text--is about. For example, you could tag a picture of the castle in Warwick, UK on Flickr with "Warwick castle UK England" and when someone searched on these criteria would have the following results returned:
The Second Life Non Profit Presence Getting Closer
Posted April 14th, 2007 by CreechUptime and Nonprofits
Posted April 11th, 2007 by CreechRecently I had an Skype message from Susan, our "nonprofit administrator herder" for the Nonprofits in Second Life project. I have to assume that she was posting to the site, or perhaps reading some recent content. In any case, she IMed me because the site was down. I'm acting as the Web master, so this made good sense. I probed a little bit and came to the conclusion that the server was completely unresponsive.
