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San Francisco Meets the Metaverse 3

penguin kuhn — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:49:29 -0600

Join in the Celebration of the Launch of the Second Nonprofit Commons Sim! Nonprofits and their supporters will be hosting a mixed reality grand opening celebration in San Jose as part of the NetSquared conference and in the metaverse on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, starting at 10:00 A.M. PST/SLT (Second Life Time), in the new second Nonprofit Commons location.

Highlights:

Dancing at Aloft Island Fun-Raiser

gale.beckwith — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:03:13 -0600

If 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

penguin kuhn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:07:25 -0600

Anika 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

Glitteractica_Cookie — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:52:29 -0600

Event 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!

Glitteractica_Cookie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:16:20 -0600

The 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!

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Fight Hunger video

tuesday — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:18:15 -0600

Tagging Tutorials -- Part I Flickr

Creech — Tue, 01 May 2007 03:42:20 -0600

My 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:

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The Second Life Non Profit Presence Getting Closer

Creech — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:16:53 -0600

Offices are being allocated to the tenants and it looks like we might start furnishing very soon. If you are interested in who is being housed where, check out the Flickr page below and mouse over the image.

NPSL (Thanks Missouri Humanities Council!)

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Uptime and Nonprofits

Creech — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:14:04 -0600

Recently 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.

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NPSL Video

Creech — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:31:32 -0600

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