Net Tuesday Mixed Reality Event: SecondLife for Nonprofits

Non-Profits in SecondLife, TechSoup Mixed Reality Event

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"Every month, Web innovators and those who promote social change congregate in a shared effort to bring the social Web to nonprofits and NGOs all over the world. These meetings are referred to as Net Tuesday events.

July's Net Tuesday will feature a presentation about how nonprofits can use Second Life, a multiplayer community on the Web. In Second Life, users create their own characters (called avatars) and help build a virtual 3D world that's created entirely by its inhabitants and limited only by the imagination.

Second Life boasts a successful marketplace, social interactions, and civic activities; it's a virtual community rather than a game, and nonprofits can benefit from this community in a number of ways. The Net Tuesday event, which will occur on July 18th, will be held at TechSoup's satellite office in Second Life.

Susan Tenby, Online Community Manager of TechSoup.org, and Jeska Dzwigalski, Community Manager at Linden Lab, (the company that created and runs Second Life), will present a tour of this online community, including TechSoup's satellite office. The presenters will also demo a directory of nonprofit organizations in the Second Life world. Finally, the event will feature a number of guest speakers from organizations who are actively working in the Second Life community to better achieve their organization's missions.

The event will simultaneously occur both virtually, in Second Life and in the physical world. We will be displaying audio/video footage of both environments to show participants in both locations what is happening at that time."from the event invite

A linkfull post: Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life in Beth Kantor's blog.