If there are any budding machinimators or photographers out there who would like to help record the public launch of the Non-profit Commons sim this Tuesday, please be in touch with the lovely In Kenzo via IM or at inkenzo-at-gmail.com. It’s a mixed reality event, beaming in audio and video from the offices of Tech…
Category: Civil Society
August 14 Non-profit Commons Launch Event to feature Anshe Chung and Jeska Linden
In just under a week, the Second Life Non-Profit Commons — which houses the virtual world HQ of Yehoodi among many other non-profits — will be throwing a fabulous launch party on August 14 from 5:30-7PM (teleport SLURL). The NPC sim was made possible by a generous donation by Anshe Chung, so she will be…
YearlyKos Convention Day Two: Presidential candidates step up to the mic
Just checking in on what’s going on at YearlyKos Convention today in SL. I rezzed into a breakout session being run by Hilary Clinton. She’s talking a good talk right now about the need for stronger infrastructure in the US, including our mass transit system and broadband internet. Hurray for mass transit and broadband! There’s…
A Brief Interview with the YearlyKos Organizers
The YearlyKos Convention has started in Chicago and in Second Life (teleport SLURL) It’s amazing seeing the parallel tracks being broadcast in the different meeting areas they have set up in-world, and the avatars gathered to participate virtually. Unlike real conferences, you can instantly teleport around to the different sessions, checking in on a panel…
Opening Keynote tonight for YearlyKos featuring Dean and Durbin
Dire Lobo, one of the organizers of Second Life section of the YearlyKos Convention, reminds folks that tonight at 5PM SLT Senator Dick Durbin and Governor Howard Dean will be speaking at the opening keynote (teleport SLURL.) I asked Dire how preparations for the convention were going. He reported that they are wrestling with some…
I’m headed to SLCC in Chicago!
"I’m going to Chicago, I’m sorry but I can’t take you…." I got a call on Tuesday from Barry at Global Kids asking me if I wanted to help out with the non-profit / philanthropy theme at the Second Life Community Convention. Oh, would I! SLCC is happening this year from August 24-26 in the…
TakingITGlobal moving to the virtual world
Catching up on old emails, I found a press release about the new virtual home of the youth-oriented international non-profit TakingITGlobal. It seems that the Starwood owners of the Aloft Hotel in Second Life have decided to donate their sim, which has outlived its usefulness to Starwood. So instead of letting it lie fallow like…
YearlyKos is this weekend!
This weekend, August 2-5, progressive activists, bloggers, and politicians from all over the country (and the world) will be gathering in Chicago for the Yearly Kos convention. Joining them will be all the major Democratic Presidential candidates, as well as Democratic party leaders, so you know its going to be quite the shindig. If like…
Civil society activists from Global South sought for Oxford Internet research program
The Oxford Internet Institute is looking for civil society activists from the developing world to participate in their new Civil Society Practitioners Programme: This visitor programme is intended for Civil Society Practitioners of distinction or outstanding promise who wish to visit the Institute for a period of six weeks between February and December 2008, to…
Global Kids hiring YouthVentures Program Manager
Catching up on correspondence after my trip, I saw this message from my friends at Global Kids that they are hiring a new "YouthVentures Program Manager". Here’s how they describe it: YouthVentures supports groups of teens to develop social enterprises. A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to…