Click To Play SL entrepreneur Anshe Chung delivered a very interesting keynote address at the official launch of the Non-profit Commons last Tuesday. Those avatars who were at the opening had some difficulty making out Anshe’s words due to technical difficulties, so it is great to be able to review the video footage, recorded and…
Category: Civil Society
Caledon Peace Society reception this Sunday
Just got info about the peace-oriented event from my friend Otenth Paderborn. This Sunday, August 26, from 12-3PM, there will be an Opening Reception for the Caledon Peace Society Sunday at Caledon SteamSkyCity/117/91 (teleport SLURL): The Caledon Peace Society is established to provide a venue for discussion of issues of peace and conflict. While many…
Global Kids create “best practices in education” Moo cards
GK-bestpractice-moo-8 Originally uploaded by Holy Meatballs The youth empowerment group Global Kids, in preparation for the Second Life Community Convention coming up this weekend in Chicago, have created a cool set of 12 Moo cards illustrating "Best Practices in Using Second Life for Real World Education." They are all great tips that SL…
Knight Foundation offers up to $5 million for the next killer community media app
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced the second year of their "Knight News Challenge," awarding up to $5 million to projects that use new media to deliver news and information to a particular geographic community. Last year they funded a range of interesting projects, from open source software to video blogs…
Schedule for Non-profit / Philanthropy “thread” at SLCC available
For those of you coming to the Second Life Community Convention this weekend in Chicago who are interested in following the non-profit / philanthropy thread, there’s a convenient non-profit schedule, posted by Joyce at Global Kids. Here are the main events in a nutshell: Saturday, August 25 10:00am-11:00am Keynote by Connie Yowell, Director of Education…
Japanese earthquake relief concert today in SL
On July 16, 2007 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 jolted a wide area on the west coast of Honshu Island, killing nine people, injuring more than 900 others and destroying about 780 homes. A relief effort live concert is being held, the funds collected going to the Japanese Emergency Relief Effort at furumachi…
Workshop on real/virtual civic spaces at Emerson College
Gene Woo blogs about a cool new course he and Eric Gordon are teaching at Emerson College this fall called "Hub2." Described as "exploring, imagining, and building civic places in real and virtual spaces" the class was inspired by a Boston initiative to spur new kinds of civic engagement. From the flyer, students in the…
Non-profit Commons Launch Party a Success! (pics and comments)
The official launch of the Non-profit Commons Sim was a great success this evening, I’m proud to report. With 100-ish avatars and another 80-some people at the real world event in San Francisco, we exceeded our goals for the party. Kudos to our intrepid leader Glitteractica Cookie of Techsoup, In Kenzo of Amoration, Anshe Chung…
MacArthur Foundation supporting non-profit track at Second Life Convention
MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton’s avatar in Second Life The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation just issued a press release on their support of the Second Life Community Convention coming up from August 24-26 in Chicago. Although the press release states that MacArthur is supporting the "non-profit track" in truth they are responsible for…
Keep ICANN out of the morality business
ICANN is the global regulatory body charged with coordinating the Domain Name System, the global address book of the internet that ensures that you can surf to the site you plugged into your browser and send email to any address. There are some good people at ICANN doing a very difficult job — what with…