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Celebrating Earth Day with Etopia for April 22nd NonProfit Commons Meeting

This Friday, April 22nd, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life will feature Gloria Kraegel (Namaara MacMoragh in SL) who will present on the Etopia EcoVillage and Sustainable Community showcasing real life examples of sustainable living, renewable energy, organic agriculture, urban planning, and intentional community. 

Gloria Kraegel has enjoyed a 30-year career working with nonprofits focusing on issues of capacity and development, working with clients to establish sustainable systems that meet organizational needs and objectives. She has facilitated retreats, conferences, and board development workshops throughout the United States. Her current project is with the Brain Energy Support Team, a US nonprofit that provides PEER support, advocacy, and education. BEST distinguishes itself from other brain injury organizations in that the leadership, services, and programs are built by and for individuals with brain injury and their families.

As her avatar Namaara MacMoragh, Gloria brings her skill and vision to Etopia Sustainable Community, a four-region Second Life simulation showcasing environmental, community, and personal sustainability.

 

Join us in Second Life! 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting 

Friday, April 22nd, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater 

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

 

AGENDA (all times below PT) 

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central 
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation – Celebrating Earth Day with Etopia
  • 9:45 am Open Mic / Announcements

 

This presentation, is part of the Etopia 9th Annual Earth Day celebration, including three days of workshops, discussions, events, music, and more. Other events take place at the Etopia community in Second Life:  

9th Annual Etopia Earth Day Schedule 
Thursday April 21
  • 12pm SLT – Three Sisters Celebration, Ribbon Cutting & Earth Day Kickoff
  • 2pm SLT – The Cooperative Difference led by Namaara MacMoragh at the Poetry Corner
  • 7pm SLT – Weakly Bored Meating @ Tsidel’s Cafe 
Friday April 22
  • 8:39am SLT – About Etopia Presentation at Nonprofit Commons – Namaara MacMoragh
  • 10 am SLT – Healing The Earth With Permaculture – fate Paule
  • 11am SLT – Climate Change Workshop with Marly Milena
  • 1pm SLT – Earth Day Open Mic with Bhelanna Blaze and Namaara MacMoragh
  • 3:30pm SLT – Can Solar Power Reverse Climate Change – Patrick Edwin
  • 5pm SLT – KevinMThomas LIVE at the Pavillion
  • 7pm SLT – DJ Dani @ the Farmers Market
Saturday April 23
  • 9am SLT – Simply Impossible Machines
  • 10:30am SLT – Mediation & Sustainable Community – Wraith Serdyuk
  • 12pm SLT – Bridging Etopia and Real World Practices – Namaara MacMoragh (SLMOOC16 Presentation)b
  • 2pm SLT – Closing Reception @ the Water Treatment Plant

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions. 

http://nonprofitcommons.org

 

 

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir

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Open Forum for April 15th NonProfit Commons Meeting

This Friday, April 15th, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life will feature an open forum and is a chance to chat on relevant tech, upcoming events, and a roundup happenings and updates on what other NPC community members are working on.

 

Join us in Second Life! 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting 

Friday, April 15th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater 

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

 

AGENDA (all times below PT) 

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central 
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation – Open Forum 
  • 9:45 am Open Mic / Announcements

 

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions. 

http://nonprofitcommons.org

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Digital Storytelling for Good for the April 8th NonProfit Commons Meeting

 

This Friday, April 8th, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life will focus on digital storytelling, and talk on the #Storymakers2016  digital storytelling campaign which is focused on building capacity for NGOs to use storytelling to create assets for fundraising and advocacy. This week, TechSoup launched it’s annual competition, including new educational how-to’s, webinars, and resources, and we encourage everyone to consider submitting photos or a video. 

 

We also will have Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) to update us on the short digital story about Nonprofit Commons, that he is creating for his World Makers series. He will be filming some during our meeting, so come with your avatar ready to be part of this! – https://www.youtube.com/user/draxtordespres

 

Join us in Second Life!

 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting 

Friday, April 8th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater 

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

 

AGENDA (all times below PT) 

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central 
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation – Digital Storytelling for Good
  • 9:45 am Open Mic / Announcements

 

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions. 

http://nonprofitcommons.org

 

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Memes for Social Good 2: Revenge of the GIF for the April 1st NonProfit Commons Meeting

This Friday, April 1st, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life will feature a presentation on using memes for social good. Last year we explored memes as elements of culture that often get passed on from person to person, and virally propagate around the internet. They can be images, videos, audio files and even sayings or bits of text. This time, we will focus on animated GIFs and short video memes, how you can use them for social good, and go through some of the online tools you can use to create them.

 

Join us in Second Life! 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting

Friday, April 1st, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

 

AGENDA (all times below PT)

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central 
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation – Memes for Social Good 2: Revenge of the GIF
  • 9:45 am Open Mic / Announcements

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions.

http://nonprofitcommons.org

 

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir

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Life Integration Using Arts Processes for March 25th NonProfit Commons Meeting

This Friday, March 25th, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life will feature Marly Milena (Niela Miller) who will share how she created a Life Integration exhibit to help make meaning of her experiences and pursuits, and will give you ideas of how you might go about making one for yourself. She will demonstrate using a drawing board and building tools to symbolize different aspects of a life. Time will be provided at the end for Q&A and contributions from participants.

 

BIO: Marly Milena aka Niela Miller, M.S. Education/Communications, brings her rich background  and training in the arts, Gestalt psychology, Jungian process work, organization development, group dynamics and education to whatever she does. She has been in SL since 2007 and has one group called Octagon:Creative Exploration and shares leadership (with Wisdomseeker Lissena) of another group on her sim called Adventures in Lifelong Learning. See her website for publications, articles, an integration exhibit under Projects, Second Life machinima videos of  some of her sessions, samples of her programs in SL, her music, and other yummies. http://www.peoplesystemspotential.com

 

Join us in Second Life!

 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting 

Friday, March 25th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater 

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

 

AGENDA (all times below PT) 

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central 
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation – Life Integration Using Arts Processes 
  • 9:45 am Open Mic / Announcements

 

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions. 

http://nonprofitcommons.org

 

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Recapping VWBPE-Looking Forward to NTC for the March 18th Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Meeting

This Friday, March 18th, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life we will get a chance to go over highlights of the Virtual Worlds Best Practices conference, and the upcoming Nonprofit Technology Conference taking place in San Jose next week. We will also have a Mentors Central presentation on remote work tools, and Draxtor will join us to discuss the NPC video he is making as part of the World Maker Series and film some of our meeting.

Join us in Second Life! 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting

Friday, March 18th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

AGENDA (all times below PT)

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central – Remote Work Tools
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation – Draxtor Despres discussing and filming a short NPC video
  • 9:20 am Recapping VWBPE, looking foward to NTC
  • 9:30 am Open Mic / Announcements 

 

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions.

http://nonprofitcommons.org

 

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Nonprofit Commons at VWBPE: Creating Impact Through a Community of Practice

This week’s Nonprofit Commons meeting will take place at the VWBPE Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2016 Conference.

TechSoup‘s NonProfit Commons (NPC) was designed to create a community of practice for nonprofit professionals, librarians, and social good focused technologists to explore and learn about virtual worlds such as Second Life, and to investigate the many ways in which organizations might utilize these unique environments. Through this community, NPC provides space to qualifying groups, holds regular meetings and network events, offers peer mentoring, and has created a cooperative, social-civic good focused learning environment that fosters outreach, education, fundraising, and impactful mission building, all in a virtual space.



Panelists:

 

NPC Panel: March 11, 2016 @ 08:00 AM – 09:50 AM Pacific

WHERE: +Second Life, Idahonia region

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Idahonia/135/20/26
 
In this panel presentation, members of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life community will share peer-based learning strategies, community development best practices, and stories of how using a virtual environment as part of this collaborative community of practice have impacted their work and individual organization missions.

Session Objectives

Members of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life community will share community development best practices, peer-based learning strategies, and stories of how using a virtual environment as part of this community of practice has impacted the work and missions of the cross-disciplined group made up of nonprofits, librarians, social-good focused technologists and educators. This will include members of Nonprofit Commons’ community management team and mentors, as well as those from the various NPC member organizations that are part of the community.

Join us for this special panel virtually! More info at: http://vwbpe.org/event/nonprofit-commons-creating-impact-through-a-community-of-practice?instance_id=41

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Open Forum for the March 4th Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Meeting

This Friday, March 4th, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life we will have an open forum that will give us a chance to ask deeper question from our past week’s topics, discuss upcoming Nonprofit Commons events and others like the Virtual Worlds Best Practices conference. It will also be an opportunity to ask any burning tech or community questions you might have. 

Join us in Second Life! 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting

Friday, March 4th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

AGENDA (all times below PT)

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central 
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation – Open Forum
  • 9:30 am Open Mic / Announcements

 

http://nonprofitcommons.org

The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions. 

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Are Mrs. A and Mr B Getting Better for the February 26th NonProfit Commons Meeting

This Friday, February 26th, TechSoup’s NonProfit Commons in Second Life will feature Gentle Heron who will review progress on Virtual Ability’s research project with the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Now starting the third and final year, this project establishes reasons for healthcare disparities for persons with disabilities. Virtual Ability community members in Second Life have been trained and hired as research staff for the project.

 

Join us in Second Life!

 

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting 

Friday, February 26th, 8:30 AM PT / SLT

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater 

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL

 

AGENDA (all times below PT) 

  • 8:30 am Introductions
  • 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
  • 8:45 am Mentors Central 
  • 9:00 am Featured Presentation: Are Mrs. A and Mr B Getting Better – Gentle Heron
  • 9:45 am Open Mic / Announcements

 

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions. 

http://nonprofitcommons.org

 

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Media, Community and Social Justice for the February 19th NonProfit Commons Meeting

This Friday, February 19th, for our weekly TechSoup‘s NonProfit Commons in Second Life meeting, we will be taking a special field trip to the Virtual Ability community for a mixed reality panel presentation. Panelists Courtney Steele, Ellen Lundwell, Alice Krueger will each describe their organizations and how their work addresses the intersection of media, community, and social justice.
 
The panel will be hosted by Dr. Susan Sci, assistant professor of communication at Regis University, Denver, CO, and include: 
  • Courtney Steele, of The Open Media Foundation
  • Ellen Lundwell, of World Affairs Challenge
  • Alice Krueger (Gentle Heron), of Virtual Ability, Inc. 
The voices of the non-Second Life panelists will be broadcast into Second Life, with Alice/Gentle being projected live into the physical venue.
 
Join us in Second Life!
 
A Special Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting
Friday, February 19h, 8:00 AM PT / SLT
This week, taking place in the Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability island at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/54/170/23
 
AGENDA (all times below PT) 
  • 8:00 am Special panel: Media, Community and Social Justice (taking place in the Sojourner Auditorium) 
  • 9:40 am Open Mic / Announcements (this will take place back at our Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater: http://bit.ly/NPCinSL
 
The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a program sponsored by Caravan Studios – http://caravanstudios.org, a division of TechSoup Global, http://techsoup.org. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions. 

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir