The Future of Music Coalition, a great advocacy group that works for more fair and balanced public policy on music-related issues, is hiring a Communications Director. If you’ve got the passion for media justice, defending the rights of musicians and music fans, then this might be the job for you. Check the full job description…
Global Warming adventure game coming to wii and Nintendo DS
Adventure Gamers has a great interview with Carsten Fichtelmann and Jan Müller-Michaelis of Daedalic Entertainment, a Hamburg-based game developer. Fichtelmann and Müller-Michaelis talk about Daedalic’s plans to release an adventure game on the issue of Climate Change called A New Beginning for the PC, Nintendo wii and DS . Here’s the synopsis from Adventure Gamers:…
MacArthur online discussion on philanthropy and virtual worlds
Today on the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Blog, Lucy Bernholz has begun an online dialogue with grantmakers on what philanthropists can accomplish in virtual worlds and how to measure success. As preparation for the real world panel discussion that will take place at the Second Life Community Convention this weekend, Bernholz has asked…
Brazilian “City of Knowledge” event this Tuesday in Second Life
Just received this very interesting event notice about a "City of Knowledge" conference taking place in various locations all over Brazil this coming Tuesday, August 28: On Tuesday, August 28, 2007, groups from Brazil, the United States and France will join together in Second Life to celebrate knowledge sharing from around the world with simulcast…
YouDecide2007: Australian project puts election coverage in the hands of the voters
At the end of the year, Australia will be holding their next round of parliamentary elections. A new initiative called "You Decide 2007" is challenging Australians to become citizen journalists covering the elections, uploading their own reports, photos, audio and video. It looks like the site is splitting the difference between an unfiltered community site…
Anshe Chung: creating a fair, democratic, egalitarian global society through virtual worlds
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…
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…