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Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting

October 5, 2012, 8:30 AM SLT / PST

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

[08:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Welcome everyone to this week’s Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting!

[08:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is sponsored by TechSoup Global and is a program of the TechSoup Global Community & Social Media team

[08:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Today’s Agenda:

• 8:30 am Introductions
• 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
• 8:45 am Mentors Central – 
• 8:55 am Jacques Macaire (jacmacaire Humby in SL)
• 9:30 am Open Mic / Announcements

[08:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: First a few links to start off the meeting. 

Here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life:

  –  Nonprofit Commons Blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org

  –  Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com

  –  Twitter: http://twitter.com/npsl

  –  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitcommons

  –  Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life

  –  Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh

  –  http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

About TechSoup the sponsors of the Nonprofit Commons:

  –  http://www.techsoup.org/stock/howtousetechsoup.asp

  –  http://flavors.me/techsoup

  —  INTRODUCTIONS —

[08:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: so hello everyone!

[08:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: lets start off with introductions

[08:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Please state your real name, location, org, and the ways we can find you online.

[08:36] Ronnie Rhode: Denise Harrison, The Garden for the Missing, http://www.gardenforthemissing.org/ and SLURL Remora (203,148,21), Project Jason, assistance for families of the missing, http://www.projectjason.org.

[08:36] Jen: Bruce Hestley, Transgender American Veterans Association, Akron, OH, http://www.tavausa.org, http://www.facebook.com/#!/TAVAUS

[08:36] Dancers Yao: Kara Bennett, Elder Voices, Los Angeles, CA Health Care and Human Rights www.eldervoices.net

[08:36] Gentle Heron: Virtual Ability, Inc. www.virtualability.org

[08:36] Adalace Jewell: Corine Van Hellemnt, RoSa Library Brussels (Belgium). www.rosadoc.be @adalace

[08:36] Andy Evans: Andy Mallon, First Opinions Panel in SL; Social Research Foundation, New York, NY http://www.socialresearchfoundation.org/

[08:37] Svea Morane: Brian Kaihoi, Mayo Clinic, www.mayoclinic.org

[08:37] Amy Waverider: Virtual Ability

[08:37] Chad Mikado: Chad GobertNSIPwww.serviceandinclusion.org

[08:37] Ozma Malibu: Sandy Andrews, Floaters Org, tech outreach in Arizona, Mexico and On the Road, @ozma

[08:37] Oronoque Westland: Roberta Kilkenny, Hunter College, City University of New York

[08:38] Carl Solutionary: Carl Icann, Occupy Virtual Worlds! We are launching the RL book TRADING DREAMS with author J.L. Morin “live” in SL on Wednesday Oct 10 from 1pm to 4pm SLT. Watch our website: http://INTEROCCUPY.net/ovw17 IM me with your email and we’ll comp you a free book today!

[08:38] alebez: Ale Bezdikian, Online Community Coordinator, TechSoup, SF, Ca @TechSoup, @alebez

[08:38] bulaklak: Michael DeLong, TechSoup Global, www.techsoup.org, @MichaelDeLongSF @TechSoup, San Francisco, USA

[08:38] Rhiannon ChatnoirRhiannon Chatnoir is Joyce Bettencourt, Boston, MA, Community Manager of NonProfit Commons, @RhiannonSL, http://joycebettencourt.com

[08:38] Lyssa AskJAN.org: Lyssa Rowan, Job Accommodation Network, http://AskJAN.org @JANatJAN

[08:38] jacmacaire Humby: Jacques Macaire HUMANBE http://www.humanbe.com France and International Action Tank and Council on Sustainable Development @Humanbe

[08:38] Tank Thibedeau: Ricky Davis, San Antonio Texas and a SL wanderer, HIV/AIDS peer support and DJ soon to be colthing designer and learning mesh too

[08:39] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any other introductions

[08:39] Sarvana Haalan: Sally Cherry, MT(ASCP), Baltimore, MD , Consultant, http://Twitter.com/CHAREproject, http://CHAREproject.com

[08:39] Brena Benoir: Brenda Bryan, Preferred Family Healthcare, Kirksville, MO www.pfh.org, @brenabenoir

[08:39] bulaklak: Hey, the website’s looking good, Jacques

  — TECHSOUP ANNOUNCEMENTS — 

[08:39] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Then next we have TechSoup Announcements – bulaklak

[08:40] bulaklak: Happy Friday, all!

[08:40] Larry Massey: Larry M,, I work on Internet technology and, lately, public policy around Internet use

[08:40] Sarvana Haalan: cool

[08:40] bulaklak: Some of you may remember last year we talked about the Restart Romania challenges

[08:40] bulaklak: Can I get a quick shout out for folks who remember that initiative?

[08:41] Gentle HeronGentle Heron remembers the name.

[08:41] Jen: Raises Hand

[08:41] Rhiannon Chatnoir: If you joined us late, please still introduce yourself

[08:41] Sam: rl calls, take care every1 🙂

[08:41] bulaklak: bye sam

[08:41] bulaklak: Okay, great.

[08:42] Oronoque WestlandOronoque Westland must have missed that meeting

[08:42] bulaklak: So these challenges were spearheaded by our partner TechSoup Romania with the idea of crowdourcing ideas to address corruption in the government there

[08:42] bulaklak: It wound up really having legs and generating quite a few interesting projects

[08:42] bulaklak: So this year we are launching round two

[08:43] bulaklak: with the support of the Central and Eastern European Trust for Civil Society, United States Embassies, Microsoft, and a variety of local donors, we are launching challenges in very much the same spirit in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania again, followed, next year by the Balkans.

[08:44] bulaklak: I’m really excited about the expansion of support and watching the idea spread and think some more excellent ideas will come out of this round

[08:44] bulaklak: Read more about it: http://bit.ly/Restart2

[08:45] bulaklak: And perhaps when it’s in full swing we can have Chris Worman from TechSoup Romania come talk to us about some of the neat ideas coming out of the challenge and some of the challenges they face in putting together the challenge

[08:45] bulaklak: that’s a lot of challenge

[08:45] bulaklak: At any rate, that’s what I’ve got for today! Looking forward to the meeting.

[08:45] bulaklak: Enjoy it and your weekends!

[08:46] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thanks bulaklak!

  — MENTORS CENTRAL —  

[08:46] Rhiannon Chatnoir: now on to Mentors Corner

[08:46] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Today for Mentor Central we have Gentle Heron to speak on “How to Stay Off the Endangered Species List.”. Let’s welcome her up and please start whenever your ready.!

[08:47] Sarvana Haalan: Wooot…. Gentle rocks!!!

[08:47] Oronoque Westland: our typists are at risk so listen carefully

[08:47] Chad Mikado: applause

[08:47] Gentle Heron: Good morning, and welcome to my little pep talk: “How to Stay Off the Endangered Species List.”

[08:47] Gentle Heron: I also call this topic “How to Not Let Your Idea Become Extinct.”

[08:47] Gentle Heron: I think we all know what the Endangered Species List is about. Animals, whole populations of animals, whose numbers are dwindling to the point that they may soon no longer be alive at all.

[08:48] Gentle Heron: You don’t want your idea, your passion, your business, to be on an Endangered Species List.

[08:48] Gentle Heron: Because we all know that if you’re on the Endangered Species list, you’ve already started down the tubes. And getting back OFF the list requires a LOT of effort. It’s best to stay off the list, if you can.

[08:48] Gentle Heron: So, three general rules for keeping your concept from becoming an endangered species:

[08:48] Gentle Heron: 1. Be the “Best in Breed.”

At the Westminster Kennel Club show, the dog chosen as “Best in Breed” is the one most photographed, most talked about, easiest for the general public to recall.

[08:48] Gentle Heron: Have you ever Googled the general category of your idea/business/passion? It’s eye opening. I Googled “abused children support” and got 96,100,000 hits.

[08:49] Gentle Heron: When people are looking for something using Google, how deep do they go? The first page, ten pages? Do you think entry number 96,099,995 on the list I generated gets much traffic?

[08:49] Sarvana Haalan: wow!!!

[08:49] Gentle Heron: It pays for you to be recognized at the top of the list. How to do that? Two ways.

[08:49] Gentle Heron: First is to acquire knowledge. Become an expert. Learn, learn, learn. Learn not only about your own field, but about related fields.

[08:49] Gentle Heron: (I know Sarvana knows this and does it well!)

[08:50] Gentle Heron: Learn the foundations, and some special tips and tricks. Learn who the established experts are. Explore the newest thinking, the cutting edge.

[08:50] Sarvana Haalan: Thanks…

[08:50] Gentle Heron: Second, disseminate what you learn. Be a resource to others. Share what you’ve discovered, the questions you are pondering, the books and articles you’ve read, the presentations you’ve attended.

[08:50] Gentle Heron: These are the two steps toward becoming the best and most recognized in your field. If your project supports abused children, you don’t want to be number 96,099,995 on a Google list.

[08:50] Gentle Heron: 2. Expand your niche.

It’s great to know your place. It’s comfortable there.

[08:51] Gentle Heron: If you are a green tree python, it’s a jungle tree.

[08:51] Gentle Heron: But this isn’t the time to hide, to stay in your comfort zone.

[08:51] Gentle Heron: (not sure I recommend airports though, like the python on the right)

[08:51] Gentle Heron: A bad economic environment is similar to an ecological environment in which resources are becoming limited. In both cases, competition increases for the dwindling resources.

[08:51] Gentle Heron: To survive, to prevent becoming endangered or extinct, get out of your niche and explore. There are more resources out there. Go out and find them and make them your own.

[08:52] Gentle Heron: You will be more visible outside your own niche. That’s a good thing. Now is not the time to hide.

[08:52] Gentle Heron: 3. Get a champion.

[08:52] Gentle Heron: Sure chimpanzees are cute, and we like seeing them in zoos. But wild chimps became a cause célèbre when Jane Goodall brought them to the public eye.

[08:52] Gentle Heron: Do the same for your cause.

[08:53] Gentle Heron: Build a support network. Become part of a community. Find someone who believes in what you do or plan to do.

[08:53] Gentle Heron: We all need someone to invest in our development, support our growth, publicize our progress and successes, and even cover our backs occasionally.

[08:53] Gentle Heron: Jane did that for chimpanzees in the wild. Who can do that for you and your work?

[08:53] Gentle Heron: And there you have it, three steps toward staying off the endangered species list:

[08:53] Gentle Heron: 1. Be the “Best in Breed.”

2. Expand your niche.

3. Get a champion.

[08:53] Gentle Heron: (done!)

[08:54] Sarvana Haalan: Wooot, wooot…. awesome presentation… very timely, Gentle. Thank you!!!!

[08:54] Buffy Beale: cheers! and whispers… Buffy Bye, Bridges for Women, Victoria BC Canada, http://www.bridgesforwomen.ca @bridges4women

[08:54] Svea Morane: Excellent point Gentle

[08:54] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Thanks Gentle for leading Mentor Central today!

[08:54] jacmacaire Humby: Bravo!!

[08:54] Oronoque Westland: wonderful tips!

[08:54] Andy Evans: Excellent!

[08:54] bulaklak: Great tips!

[08:54] Tank Thibedeau: GENTLE !!!!

[08:54] Tank Thibedeau: hooo rah

[08:54] Ozma Malibu: Thank you Gentle!

[08:55] Rhiannon Chatnoir: I love Gentle’s presentations 🙂

[08:55] Buffy Beale: so do I!

[08:55] bulaklak: Finding the time to do more industry reading is one of the hardest ones for me, but I know it’s necessary! Thanks for the reminder, Gentle!

[08:55] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes

[08:55] Carl Solutionary: Can I add something… ? 1. Teach a class… the teacher is instantly recognized as the expert… 2. Write an article… then use it as a marketing tool… 3. Use social networks avidly

[08:55] Rhiannon Chatnoir: I like the teaching aspect

[08:56] Buffy Beale: good points as well Carl

[08:56] bulaklak: Teaching also forces you to know the material really, really well

[08:56] bulaklak: (And you learn from your students!)

[08:56] Gentle Heron: Another quick way to stay abreast is news summary sites such as: http://www.linkedin.com/today/se/editorspicks

[08:56] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great

[08:57] Rhiannon Chatnoir: and always amazing wisdom from Gentle – thanks

[08:57] Oronoque Westland: learning about RSS feeds really helps you keep up with your topic

  — FEATURED PRESENTER — 

[08:57] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Time for today’s main speaker 🙂

[08:57] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Welcome Jacques Macaire (jacmacaire Humby in SL), who will speak to us about the nonprofit HUMANBE he founded and the work HUMANBE has done in Second Life as a long-time member organization of the NonProfit Commons.

[08:57] Larry Massey: look up “Search Engine Optimization” (SEO); there are technical things you can do to make yourself noticed, used by most marketing organizations

[08:57] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Jacques – please come up and grab a seat in front – great

[08:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: feel free to start when ready

[08:58] jacmacaire Humby: Thank you..

[08:58] jacmacaire Humby: Hi everyone,

[08:58] Buffy Beale: cheering for you jac!

[08:58] jacmacaire Humby: Before I begin, I would like to ask you due to the difficulty of language, and in case you want to ask me questions, if you could do it after my speech, or by email or IM..

[08:58] Gentle HeronGentle Heron waves encouragingly to Jacques.

[08:58] jacmacaire Humby: Thank you, it will be gentle.. I hope you don’t mind..

[08:59] jacmacaire Humby: So.. Thank you for you invitation, and congratulation to the organizers for all the work they do to prepare each week this friday’s meeting..

[08:59] Jen: Yayy Jac

[08:59] jacmacaire Humby: Thank you also to TechSoup, for allowing us to be present in the NPC and now in ECO COMMONS to experiment new solutions for a better world…

[08:59] jacmacaire Humby: I want to thank, since a long time, also Dick and Corine who introduce me to the construction at our arrival, a few years ago,

[08:59] jacmacaire Humby: and also the other like Gli, Zinnia, Buffy, Chayenn, Gentle, Busy, and many others that I probably forget, with whom we shared a wonderful time..

[08:59] jacmacaire Humby: Without you, we would not have been able to experience what the virtuality could bring to an organization like ours…

[08:59] Coughran Mayo: 🙂

[08:59] jacmacaire Humby: I’m happy to see that things are moving in the NPC, and I’m happy to make our modest contribution, hoping that it will be useful for the future..

[09:00] jacmacaire Humby: For those, who don’t know me, I’m Jacques Macaire, responsible of the ACTION TANK on Sustainable Development called HUMANBE..

[09:00] jacmacaire Humby: After having participated for over 20 years, to the growth of many design firms,

[09:00] jacmacaire Humby: I met in 1995, a group of friends in Paris to discuss opportunities to put the human at the center of our concerns..

[09:00] jacmacaire Humby: We then decided to take up the challenge by creating HUMANBE, which is a non-profit association,

[09:00] jacmacaire Humby: and borrowed as a symbol of our visual identity, the human, 

thus affirming our reference and our loyalty to humanity.

[09:01] jacmacaire Humby: So, as you know, we can no longer ignore this reality.. The world with the wonders that it contains is unfortunately not expandable..

[09:01] jacmacaire Humby: And to leave Earth to colonize Mars or other galaxies is not yet possible.. for now…

[09:02] jacmacaire Humby: So, we have no other choice than to So, we have no other choice than to do with this world and its limits.. 

This means that we need to start an inventory of what we have.. The system has reached its limits..

[09:02] jacmacaire Humby: So welcome to a world where we can help you to anticipate future developments and project yourself in the best possible future…

[09:02] jacmacaire Humby: Welcome to a world where we will imagine together, create together, and put the human at the heart of our concerns…

Welcome to a world where we’ll dream together about what the world will be tomorrow…

[09:03] jacmacaire Humby: We lived in the myth of progress and growth during the last centuries.

[09:03] jacmacaire Humby: It started with coal and fossil fuels that took a direction in which we should never have taken..

[09:03] jacmacaire Humby: The two world wars, with the appearance of the aircraft and telecommunications, have accelerated the movement..

[09:03] jacmacaire Humby: Then we glorified the culture of speed, the exact time, the travel, and finally the economic liberalism, has led us to relocate our industry, our agriculture, and even our services..

[09:03] jacmacaire Humby: Today, our linear mode, ie the extraction, processing and disposal of raw materials has led to millions of businesses consume resources without replacing them.

[09:03] jacmacaire Humby: We take in a capital that we believe infinite and free, but in reality, we lived in the illusion of abundance..

[09:04] jacmacaire Humby: Profitability requirements, globalization and the law of the financial markets have led those who were still employed, to suffer a reduction in wages.

[09:04] jacmacaire Humby: A spiral that led to a real crisis of solidarity with the companies..

[09:04] jacmacaire Humby: Humans eventually become nothing more than a cost factor, whose value is determined by an exchange dominated by financiers

[09:04] jacmacaire Humby: who are trying to get rid of all social constraint in the name of competitiveness, and who have only a short-term vision.

[09:04] jacmacaire Humby: Everywhere, it’s clear that things are not going well, and that our industry is about to exhaust our planet.

[09:05] jacmacaire Humby: The Greed blinds our industry. It is urgent to realize that the overall cost of accidents exceed about 20 times the costs of prevention..

[09:05] jacmacaire Humby: A figure that should make us realize that it is urgent to completely change the method..

[09:05] jacmacaire Humby: A new vision of the world is about to be done..

[09:05] jacmacaire Humby: ll indicates that the time has come to change on many aspects, and to anchor our work in the long term, to develop a common vision for the future.

[09:06] jacmacaire Humby: The human arrived at a stage of its evolution, where the law of the strongest can no longer exist, because it generates so many human and ecological disasters, that it will eventually destroy us.

[09:06] jacmacaire Humby: It is true that the pressure for inaction, is still strong, and many skeptics see only a fad or a fashion.

[09:06] jacmacaire Humby: But Sustainability, is more than a fad..

[09:06] jacmacaire Humby: This is primarily a tool that provides answers which require us to make choices of companies, and especially by putting the people at the heart of our 3 main concerns : the economy, the society and the environment.

[09:07] jacmacaire Humby: In all cases, if there is one thing on which we can be sure is that we can no longer afford to work on our own.

[09:07] jacmacaire Humby: It is only together that we can change the world. It is time, therefore, to initiate a collective dynamics, by bringing together all those who wish to address the challenges.

[09:07] jacmacaire Humby: The unite, this is the only possible choice…

[09:07] jacmacaire Humby: The human must become the center of our concerns, and our most important to act quickly.

[09:07] jacmacaire Humby: Climate change is the result of what we have not done to understand the other…

[09:07] jacmacaire Humby: The way the world manages the human today has a direct effect on climate change for a large part of our humanity.

[09:07] jacmacaire Humby: It is not too late to change…

[09:08] jacmacaire Humby: The world lacks neither of financial resources nor of technological capabilities to ensure a better quality of life for all. It is only necessary to act now.

[09:08] jacmacaire Humby: The current financial system often determines the direction of our society, considering that the waste and the ephemeral are engines of growth, 

and more resistant to objects that can harm the consumer.

[09:08] jacmacaire Humby: They are wrong. Overconsumption causes not only environmental issues, but also social and economic…

[09:08] jacmacaire Humby: The world lacks neither the financial resources nor the technological capabilities to ensure a better quality of life.

[09:09] jacmacaire Humby: This requires to start taking risks, even on projects that seem uncertain..

[09:09] jacmacaire Humby: We need a burst of creativity and human ingenuity to avert this curse, that we are suffering..

[09:09] jacmacaire Humby: We have no other choice than to rely on our ability to imagine new future.. 

Our future is not irreversible, and we can all affect it…

[09:09] jacmacaire Humby: At HUMANBE, we strongly believe in the power of human imagination..

[09:09] jacmacaire Humby: We believe that our future isn’t irreversible, and that we can all influence on it.

[09:09] jacmacaire Humby: So, we therefore begin to explore new ideas for the future of our humanity..

[09:10] jacmacaire Humby: and begin to see which was the most pressing problems,

[09:10] jacmacaire Humby: and have initiated several projects in the diffrent areas which seemed for us the most important :

[09:10] jacmacaire Humby: 1. HOUSING

2. TRANSPORTATION and VIRTUAL LIFE

3. CONSUMPTION AND ENERGY USED

4. CO-OPERATION AND UNION BETWEEN HUMAN

5. HUMANOPOLE (Eco-Village) with PY1 (Protect yourself)

[09:10] jacmacaire Humby: ETC…

[09:11] jacmacaire Humby: Today, we are going to explain 2 projects :

[09:11] jacmacaire Humby: 1. WHY TO BUILD A HOUSE WHICH RESISTS TO HURRICANES AND TSUNAMIS and HOW TO BUILD AN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ECO-POSITIVE HOUSE THAT PRODUCES MORE ENERGY THAN IT CONSUMES?

[09:11] jacmacaire Humby: Here are the different links that will help you to understand our project, without disclosing confidential :

[09:11] jacmacaire Humby: http://www.changemakers.com/fr/node/98645

http://youtu.be/NRhtRcxDayc http://youtu.be/0_lTSe3XbXE

[09:12] jacmacaire Humby: Our ECO-POSITIVE HOUSE aims to produce a building self-sufficient in energy, which can be built at lower cost, and with carbon neutral.

[09:12] jacmacaire Humby: This unit of positive energy will show, while maintaining a modern comfort, that we can save our energy consumption to the point of being able to sell it…

[09:12] jacmacaire Humby: The cheapest energy is what we DON’T PAY..

[09:12] jacmacaire Humby: That is why before thinking about thermal comfort, the key is to build good habitat from the beginning, providing isolation of at least 40 centimeters,

[09:12] jacmacaire Humby: dual ventilation system and to take into account the orientation and sunshine. For our part, we use a renewable energy system based on solar and wind.

[09:13] jacmacaire Humby: HUMANBE designed this eco-unit building to make it totally flexible and can be installed on all types of soil.

[09:13] jacmacaire Humby: The advantage of this construction lies in the assembly on site.

[09:13] CarynTopia Silvercloud: I am so happy to see this information on building a house that generates more energy than it consumes

[09:13] jacmacaire Humby: This eco-construction unit will be entirely prefabricated and can be recycled, allowing rapid construction site, dust free and secure.

[09:13] jacmacaire Humby: The unit may be disassembled and the parts reusable, in order to limit the impact on the environment.

[09:13] jacmacaire Humby: Our goal is to demonstrate that it is possible to create a concept that will be :

[09:14] jacmacaire Humby: ENVIRONMENTAL through energy independence, and its design that takes into account the life cycle of products, manufacturing processes and materials used

[09:14] jacmacaire Humby: ECONOMICALLY VIABLE AND COMFORTABLE with the possibility of selling her positive energy and insulation very well studied, and whose investment cost is very affordable (less than 2000 dollars/M2)

[09:14] jacmacaire Humby: SOCIALLY tailored to individual needs and accessible to first-time buyers, people with disabilities and low-income seniors.

[09:14] jacmacaire Humby: The implementation is simple, fast and without drying time, and reduces by half the time construction

[09:14] jacmacaire Humby: Steel has many advantages in the field of eco-construction ::

[09:15] jacmacaire Humby: It requires little maintenance and is effectively protected against corrosion

[09:15] jacmacaire Humby: It is recyclable, thanks to its magnetic qualities

[09:15] jacmacaire Humby: It uses less material and allows for very light structures with a large expanse of glass, while a high strength high strength against natural disasters..

[09:15] jacmacaire Humby: The construction sites are clean and dry (as opposed to the matrix so-called “wet”)

[09:16] jacmacaire Humby: THE SECOND PROJECT IS CONCERNING THE PROBLEM OF OUR CONSUMPTION TODAY.

[09:16] jacmacaire Humby: To understand what we are going to say, you could see the Video of “Story of Stuff” http://youtu.be/9GorqroigqM concerning the way our products are made

[09:16] jacmacaire Humby: Because we arrived at a stage in our evolution where we need to change the economic model, and lay a new foundation,

[09:16] jacmacaire Humby: and it is time to invent new forms of action to determine the economic, environmental and social consequences of what we buy.

[09:16] jacmacaire Humby: We all have the power to change the world, and the main mission of ECCOPLANET will help you to get there.

[09:17] jacmacaire Humby: We must realize that the power is in our hands. To the consumerism of today, we prefer the consom’action..

[09:17] jacmacaire Humby: The responsible consumption should compel recognition, showing that with our money, we want to take into account a Sustainable Development..

[09:17] jacmacaire Humby: ECCOPLANET’s mission is to inspire the world to meet the challenges and unite around practical solutions

[09:17] jacmacaire Humby: HUMANBE has the ambition to decipher the impact that products have on our daily lives,

[09:17] jacmacaire Humby: and act to promote an economic system that will benefit the entire human community,

[09:18] jacmacaire Humby: offering an ECO-LABEL that will allow us to know exactly what you buy.. Out with the principle of current standards,

[09:18] jacmacaire Humby: it will give a full and comprehensible information for all of the life cycle of the product or service.

[09:18] jacmacaire Humby: The theory of change is simple.

[09:18] jacmacaire Humby: The objective of ECCOPLANET is to highlight positive initiatives

[09:18] jacmacaire Humby: and to make it public through the network in a manner enthusiastic, non-political and collective.

[09:18] jacmacaire Humby: Only signatories have the right to use the logo ECCOPLANET, so they can show their work and share their commitment.

[09:19] jacmacaire Humby: Those wishing to adopt must simply answer to 10 questions on 4 topics.

[09:19] jacmacaire Humby: They can do it gradually, with 3 levels, ranging from current activities to those who respect our principles..

[09:19] jacmacaire Humby: Awareness of belonging to the same planet is in the process of growing, and we are currently realize more and more on how interdependent we are..

[09:19] jacmacaire Humby: To create a more humane world is not science fiction.. Create a more humane world is not science fiction..

[09:19] jacmacaire Humby: Today there are solutions that can be implemented tomorrow..

[09:20] jacmacaire Humby: We have many projects to start up..

[09:20] jacmacaire Humby: We must move forward and become an example for future generations..

[09:20] jacmacaire Humby: Everything depends on us, on our courage, our sense of responsibility and our ability to imagine the future…

[09:20] jacmacaire Humby: We have the power to make life more beautiful and to make a wonderful adventure..

[09:20] jacmacaire Humby: Then use that power, and unite to create a more humane world.

[09:20] jacmacaire Humby: Advocate a more humane vision of our world and live our lives differently..

[09:20] jacmacaire Humby: Take part in projects that will protect human life..

[09:21] jacmacaire Humby: Work together to become stewards of our Earth..

[09:21] jacmacaire Humby: Changing the course of events and dream together of what will be the world of tomorrow..

[09:21] jacmacaire Humby: CONCLUSION

[09:21] CarynTopia Silvercloud: very inspiring

[09:21] jacmacaire Humby: HUMANBE have many projects in preparation,

[09:21] jacmacaire Humby: 🙂

[09:21] jacmacaire Humby: applying solutions innovating and significant to the problems of this world,

[09:22] jacmacaire Humby: like those which I show you today.

[09:22] jacmacaire Humby: We will be also happy to receive any assistance or financial support…

[09:22] jacmacaire Humby: HOW CAN YOU HELP US?

[09:22] jacmacaire Humby: As you, HUMANBE has big ambitions, but minimal resources, 

and we are therefore pleased to receive any support.

[09:22] jacmacaire Humby: The main things you can do are to :

[09:23] jacmacaire Humby: – Help us spread the word

[09:23] jacmacaire Humby: Feel free to IM jacmacaire humby for all the explanations which you will consider necessary

[09:23] jacmacaire Humby: For now, our ACTION TANK is always internal, 

but we are going to organize future sessions in order to open the debate..

[09:23] jacmacaire Humby: If someone wants to help us to organize this, don’t hesitate to contact us..

[09:23] Sarvana Haalan: powerful presentation… just posted your link on my FB page

[09:23] jacmacaire Humby: Open to all suggestions, thank you again for your attention..

[09:23] jacmacaire Humby: I hope to see you soon in real or in SECOND LIFE..

[09:23] jacmacaire Humby: Thanks Sarvana

[09:24] jacmacaire Humby: Don’t hesitate to come to see us at Eco Commons ECO Commons (94,119,69)

[09:24] Buffy Beale: cheering! great presentation Jac

[09:24] bulaklak: Great presentation!

[09:24] jacmacaire Humby: Have a nice day

[09:24] Ozma Malibu: Wow, Jacques, I have never heard you fully explain your work before – thank you. Amazing how passion and honesty and hard work can inspire.

[09:24] Gentle Heron: Thanks Jacques.

[09:24] bulaklak: And I love the website!

[09:24] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great we have a few minutes for questions if anyone has any

[09:24] jacmacaire Humby: Jacques Macaire

jacmacaire@humanbe.com

http://www.humanbe.com

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=685847711

Second Life address : ECO Commons (94,119,69)

Second Life name : jacmacaire humby

Facebook address : https://www.facebook.com/pages/HUMANBE/20144392526

TWITTER : http://twitter.com/Humanbe 

BLOG http://humanbe.tumblr.com/

PINTEREST http://pinterest.com/humanbe/

HUMANBE

Eolh – Espace 22 – Parc de Nanteuil – 5, rue de Rome

93561 Rosny sous Bois Cedex

France

Tel : 33 (0) 9 54 16 95 95

Fax : 33 (0) 1 48 94 35 72

Mob : 33 (0) 6 74 41 25 94

[09:24] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any questions for Jacques

[09:24] jacmacaire Humby: 🙂

[09:25] Buffy Beale: Question: Jac, how does HUMANBE use Second Life?

[09:25] CarynTopia Silvercloud: It sounds like you have very carefully planned the cradle to cradle aspects of design, are you considering the nontoxic aspects as well?

[09:25] Dancers Yao: Thank you for caring about human rights…great work

[09:25] Gentle Heron: QUESTION- Jacques, how does HUMANBE use TechSoup resources?

[09:25] jacmacaire Humby: Yes it is part of one of the 4 point of ECCOPLANET

[09:26] jacmacaire Humby: We would like to go ore further with Second Life to improve the virtual aspect..

[09:26] Larry Massey: I’ve been enjoying https://class.coursera.org/sustain-2012-001/class/index a free online course on sustainability… the reading list and video lectures are great, and you don’t have to ‘enroll’ to enjoy them. The class has been going on for 6 weeks. No SL outpost that i see, though

[09:27] Rhiannon Chatnoir: there are some amazing Coursera and Udacity courses.. and that sounds like a good one

[09:27] Jen: QUESTION-Do you have a presence in any other countries?

[09:27] jacmacaire Humby: and to organize ECO COMMONS, if we could..

[09:27] jacmacaire Humby: virtual or real?

[09:28] jacmacaire Humby: conserning the presence..

[09:28] jacmacaire Humby: Jen?

[09:28] Rhiannon Chatnoir: maybe speak to both

[09:28] Jen: Yes do you have an office in other countries?

[09:29] jacmacaire Humby: we are in France, but right now we are going to work closer with PY1 (Protect yourself) concerning a project of Eco-Community..

[09:29] jacmacaire Humby: First virtual and after in real..

[09:29] jacmacaire Humby: Eco-village using a meta money, per example..

[09:30] jacmacaire Humby: We are international, and Second Life helps us for that..

[09:31] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any last questions?

[09:31] jacmacaire Humby: We have no office.. We are working as teamwork when we make a project..

[09:31] Ozma Malibu: Here in Arizona we have Soleri’s Arcosanti project – I wish you could visit while he is still alive –

[09:32] Ozma Malibu: You’d like it, Jacques.

[09:32] jacmacaire Humby: Why not, if I come in US.. but I take care of my depense of CO2 with the travel..

[09:32] Rhiannon Chatnoir: nod

[09:33] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Lets thank Jacques for speaking to us today!

[09:33] jacmacaire Humby: It is why where are also in Second Life..

[09:33] Andy Evans: Thanks.. a lot to think about

[09:33] Jen: ********APPPLLLAAAUUUSSSEEE********

[09:33] jacmacaire Humby: to use less CO2 for meetings..

[09:33] jacmacaire Humby: thank you all.. 🙂

[09:33] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great

[09:33] Jen: My last travel was on the train

[09:33] Buffy Beale: thanks Jac, what a wonderful thing you and your team are doing

[09:33] Gentle Heron: Thanks Jacques, your passion shows.

[09:33] Ozma Malibu: I have heard that after Soleri is gone, the project will be built out as he designed it, but with a golf course condos etc etc so visiting now would be better. The workshops last a week and are inexpensive and you help build. You could take a freighter?

[09:34] jacmacaire Humby: Come to visit us when you want..

  — OPEN MIC & ANNOUNCEMENTS — 

[09:34] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes, thanks Jaqcques and lets move on to Open Mic / Announcements

[09:34] Rhiannon Chatnoir: anyone have any announcements for today?

[09:35] Marly: Remember the interdependent web of all existence so animals, plants, etc need to be part of the equation!

[09:35] Adalace Jewell: Yes, I have an announcement.

[09:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great – go ahead Adalace

[09:35] Gentle Heron: I also have an announcement.

[09:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: then Gentle

[09:35] Adalace Jewell: A colleague of mine at the Free University of Brussels is doing a research on emotions in Second Life. She really needs more residents to fill in the survey. Would you please be so kind to do so? It only takes 10 minutes.

[09:35] Adalace Jewell: https://sites.google.com/site/vubuasurvey/

[09:36] Rhiannon ChatnoirRhiannon Chatnoir took the survey

[09:36] Chad Mikado: me too. it’s easy

[09:36] Adalace Jewell: thank you all 🙂 My friend will appreciate

[09:36] Sarvana Haalan: Adalace, Counr me in

[09:36] Adalace Jewell: thx sarvana

[09:36] Sarvana Haalan: *count

[09:36] JenJen already completed it

[09:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Gentle, next

[09:37] Gentle Heron: (sorry this is rather a long one)

[09:37] Gentle Heron: Announcing Agile Worlds 2012

Several of these virtual world business conference sessions are of general interest.

None of the sessions are in Second Life, however!

[09:37] Gentle Heron: FRI Oct 5- 5:30pm SLT

“Accelerating Global Teamwork with Lightweight Tools”- Joel Foner (TIBCO Spotfire)

Held in VenueGen

[09:37] Gentle Heron: SAT Oct 6- 7am SLT

“The Uninitiated, Uninformed, and Unwashed: Training professionals to use virtual worlds as a service delivery tool”- Dick Dillon (SL: Coughran Mayo) (Innovaision)

Held in 3D-VirtualEvents

[09:37] Gentle Heron: YAY COUGHRAN!

[09:37] Gentle Heron: SAT Oct 6- 8:30am SLT

“Developing a Professional Image in a Virtual Community”- Valerie Hill and (SL) Zinnia Zauber

Held in 3D-VirtualEvents

[09:37] Gentle Heron: YAY ZINNIA AND VAL!

[09:38] Gentle Heron: SAT Oct 6- 10am SLT

“Location Inconsequence”- Julie LeMoine (3d ICC)

Held in Terf

[09:38] Gentle Heron: SAT Oct 6- 11am SLT

“Collaboration Across Time Zones: The people skills”- Johanna Rothman (Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.)

Held in Terf

[09:38] Gentle Heron: That one might be useful for Jacques!

[09:38] Gentle Heron: SAT Oct 6- 12:30pm SLT

“Where Did We Go Wrong? The role of culture in complex organizations”- Kevin Feenan (Knomaze Corp.)

Held in 3D-VirtualEvents

[09:38] Gentle Heron: The full schedule can be found here:

http://agileworlds2012.sched.org/ then click on colored links for each session.

[09:38] Gentle Heron: For help getting into the different virtual worlds, look here:

Distributed Agile Worlds Conference

[09:38] Gentle Heron: And if you can’t get into the various worlds, or don’t want to try, you can watch live on the web channel:

http://www.livestream.com/metaversetvbusiness

[09:38] Carl Solutionary: YAY KEVIN… he’s the founder of Rockcliffe University where I teach

[09:39] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes

[09:39] Gentle Heron: (That’s all my resource sharing for today, unless someone wants to learn about Terms of Service and Community Standards. Session today at 1pm SLT)

[09:39] Rhiannon Chatnoir: where is that Gentle

[09:39] Gentle Heron: Virtual Ability Island, the Cabana Classrooms

[09:39] Sarvana Haalan: great info… thanks!!!

[09:40] Carl Solutionary: I have an announcement’

[09:40] Carl Solutionary: We are launching the RL book TRADING DREAMS with author J.L. Morin “live” in SL on Wednesday Oct 10 from 1pm to 4pm SLT. Watch our website: http://INTEROCCUPY.net/ovw17 IM me with your email and we’ll comp you a free book today!

[09:40] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Carl next

[09:40] Carl Solutionary: this is all

[09:40] Carl Solutionary: We are launching the RL book TRADING DREAMS with author J.L. Morin “live” in SL on Wednesday Oct 10 from 1pm to 4pm SLT. Watch our website: http://INTEROCCUPY.net/ovw17 IM me with your email and we’ll comp you a free book today!

[09:41] Rhiannon Chatnoir: ok

[09:41] Sarvana Haalan: will th eevent be posted on your Fcebook page, Carl

[09:42] Carl Solutionary: yes… we have a FB site…

[09:42] Sarvana Haalan: Url, please

[09:42] Carl Solutionary: Occupy Virtual Worlds on FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/231407276985298/

[09:43] Rhiannon Chatnoir: also – anyone interested in the intersection of games and virtual worlds with education .. there is a new MOOC (massive online open course) starting this week on that – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dGViRlZfaUdUS…

[09:43] Rhiannon Chatnoir: I took part in the first one.. and quite a few other SL’ers.. good fun to get a guided chance to hop around to various virtual and game spaces together

[09:44] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any other announcements?

[09:44] Sarvana Haalan: ok, yea… I have an announcement or a bit of info

[09:44] Rhiannon Chatnoir: go ahead

[09:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Sarvana?

[09:47] Sarvana Haalan: Checking out a newly discovered site, http://jux.com… for photo storytelling (Experiencing Baltimore) hope to highlight virtual world activities… another platform to share info

[09:47] Sarvana Haalan: it may be helpful to some folks

[09:48] Rhiannon Chatnoir: nod – yes it is a very visual/storytelling blog like site

[09:48] Andy Evans: I just clicked the link but didn’t work

[09:48] Gentle Heron: Remove the periods

[09:48] Rhiannon Chatnoir: http://jux.com

[09:48] Rhiannon Chatnoir: try that

[09:48] Gentle Heron: http://jux.com should do it

[09:49] Andy Evans: yep

[09:49] Andy Evans: duh

[09:49] Rhiannon Chatnoir: If there arent any other announcements, that will finish off this weeks meeting. Next week JoJa Dhara will be joining us, some of you might know her from organizing MetaMeets

[09:49] Sarvana Haalan: sorry… https://jux.com/

[09:49] Rhiannon Chatnoir: And again, here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life:

Nonprofit Commons Blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org

 – Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com

 – Twitter: http://twitter.com/npsl

 – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitcommons

 – Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life

 – Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh

 – http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

About TechSoup the sponsors of the Nonprofit Commons:

 – http://www.techsoup.org/stock/howtousetechsoup.asp

 – http://flavors.me/techsoup

Thanks everyone and see you next week!

[09:50] Andy Evans: Great meeting, Rhiannon

[09:50] Sarvana Haalan: Great meeting… Missed the community.

[09:50] alebez: see you all. have a wonderful weekend. great meeting!

[09:50] Rhiannon Chatnoir: and again, if you are interested, or know of anyone who might be in speaking at a future meeting… let me know

[09:50] Adalace Jewell: thank you for the meeting

[09:50] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thanks all

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir

article by Alexandra Bezdikian, Online Community Coordinator, TechSoup Global

It’s no surprise that the use of virtual worlds in industries like health care delivery and education are on the rise. Prominent institutions like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the National Institutes of Health, and the Mayo Clinic have long entered the virtual arena and are increasingly looking for ways to innovate in virtual spaces.

In fact, Mayo Clinic’s mission to “inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education and research” is echoed by providing facilities and services in Second Life.

Brian Kaihoi (Svea Morane in Second Life), recently visited the Nonprofit Commons to report on Mayo Clinic’s virtual world activities in the areas of patient care, research, education and administrative services. Brian has been with Mayo Clinic for 35 years as a member of the consulting staff. Most recently, Brian is the Mayo Foundation Web Administrator and Second Life advocate. Below are excerpts from his presentation on September 14.

Svea Morane: Innovation is a core principle at Mayo Clinic, in the science of healthcare, the delivery of treatment, and improving health and well-being. The fact that innovation is so central to our culture has made it easier to bring virtual worlds to our organization. I will still get some snickers about “virtual worlds” here at Mayo, but no outright rejection. We have had a lot of crazy ideas that worked over time, so you get a little latitude in talking with folks. Other organizations may not have that advantage.

When did Mayo Clinic’s involvement in Second Life start? 

Svea Morane: While individual Mayo Clinic staff have been personally involved in Second Life and other grids for several years, our official involvement, where we started to spend money, was in May 2009. We started with a couple people who had passion for it and promoted the idea internally. As the project has gained momentum, our presence has grown.

What has been the biggest challenge, or key success factors in bringing Second Life into the Mayo fold?

Svea Morane: The biggest challenges are surprisingly “cultural” not even “technical.” You have to encourage the adoption of Virtual Worlds through engagement with all parts of the organization.

Svea Morane: Some necessary success factors would be to stay persistent, work through existing relationships, help others get done what they want done, give lots of your own personal time, and finally, think like an entrepreneur.

Svea Morane: Internally, bringing Second Life to Mayo Clinic has been the result of lots of meetings, demonstrations, talking with colleagues, and picking good projects in visible areas. We have worked on projects in all parts of the organization.

How has Second Life enhanced your programs?

Svea Morane: Our initial work in Second Life has focused on experiments that support our core services in clinical care, education, research and administrative activities.

Svea Morane: Using SL for education has been an easy step for our folks to make, and has been working very well. Many groups in SL do this already. We have sessions that are private, public and some that require registration fees. 

Svea Morane: Presentations from our physicians are popular, and exciting for our staff to present. We have good success in having our physicians interact with colleagues in other countries without having to allow for all the travel time.

What’s in store for future innovation in Second Life?

Svea Morane: We are currently running experiments using SL for real patient care, but these are not in routine practice yet. This is the area of activity that has the greatest potential for Mayo Clinic, and where we will be pushing the hardest. 

Svea Morane: Other projects being developed include a virtual world international hospice, which would educate about hospice services as well as foster therapeutic interactions. We are also including “wellness activities” including preparing meals to eat together, and cognitive impairment therapy for traumatic brain injury.

Svea Morane: The success we have had in using Second Life to help our patients and support our organization’s goals is directly related to the relationships we have established in our physical world, and in this virtual world. It cannot be over-stressed how important it has been to collaborate and help others see the vision.

Svea Morane: The last point to make about our work in SL is the tremendous benefit of collaboration, and the willingness we have here to do that. There are great people with fabulous skills and a willingness to share for the greater good. We are deeply indebted to folks like Gentle Heron at Virtual Ability, Dave Taylor at the Imperial College, Panacea Luminos from New York Healthscape, Coughran Mayo with Preferred Family Health, and organizations that have have shown us ways to work.

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir

This Friday, October 5th, Nonprofit Commons is happy to feature Jacques Macaire (jacmacaire Humby in SL), who will speak to us about the nonprofit HUMANBE he founded and the work HUMANBE has done in Second Life as a long-time member organization of the NonProfit Commons. 

About HUMANBE

Since it’s creation, HUMANBE’s mission is to change the individual and collective behavior of humans through the implementation of concrete and sustainable solutions. Recognized as an organization working to build a more humane society, HUMANBE makes real change by making every effort to build awareness of our interdependence.

http://www.humanbe.com/ 

Join us in Second Life!

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting

Friday, October 5th, 8:30 AM SLT / PST

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://bit.ly/NPCinSL 

AGENDA

• 8:30 am Introductions
• 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
• 8:45 am Mentors Central
• 8:55 am Main Speaker: Jacques Macaire (jacmacaire Humby in SL)
• 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.

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir

[08:24] Coughran Mayo: howdy

[08:28] bulaklak: I am curious if the Mentors Central has ever covered how to take awesome inworld pictures. I was comparing mine to Rhiannon’s last week and hers were 100x cooler than mine.

[08:28] Rhiannon Chatnoir: aww

[08:28] Gentle Heron: Thanks for the great topic idea, Bulaklak.

[08:29] Zinnia Zauber: They were very good. There are several factors indeed.

[08:29] Rhiannon Chatnoir: a lot has to do with SL settings … then you can maybe you can chock the rest of to composition/design

[08:29] Rhiannon Chatnoir: but settings can have a huge difference – definitely a good topic though!

[08:30] bulaklak: Thanks! Yeah I figured there must be some tricks and tips. I like how you were able to have the floating names and chat out of the shot.

[08:31] Rhiannon Chatnoir: ahh – that is a setting too 🙂

[08:31] Gentle Heron: Depending on your viewer, that’s simply a setting once you push the camera button before you press SAVE

[08:31] Zinnia Zauber: Depending on your video card…

[08:31] bulaklak: Ah, cool. I’ve just been taking screen grabs. =)

[08:32] Gentle Heron: oh no WONDER Bulaklak. Use the inworld tools for photography.

[08:33] Zinnia Zauber: The amount of people in the shot can be a factor.

[08:33] Rhiannon Chatnoir: a SL photo workshop would be great

[08:34] Tava Longfall: Hi everyone, Jenelle crashed and can’t get back in so she asked me to sit in

[08:34] Zinnia Zauber: I am waiting for volunteers.

[08:34] Gentle HeronGentle Heron waves to Tava.

[08:34] Zinnia Zauber: wow major chat lag there.

[08:35] Tava Longfall: Took a good 30+ seconds

[08:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: is Susan coming today?

[08:35] bulaklak: no

[08:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: ok

[08:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thanks

[08:36] Buffy Beale: Buffy Bye, Bridges for Women, Victoria BC Canada, http://www.bridgesforwomen.ca @bridges4women

[08:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: OK lets start things off

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Welcome everyone to this weeks NonProfit Commons meeting!

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is sponsored by TechSoup Global and is a program of the TechSoup Global Community & Social Media team

[08:37] Buffy Beale: oooo sorry thought I was late 🙂

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Today’s Agenda:

• 8:30 am Welcome & Introductions
• 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
• 8:45 am Mentors Central
• 8:55 am Jayne Cravens speaking on the TechSoup Forums
• 9:30 am Open Mic / Announcements

First a few links to start off the meeting. 

Here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life:

Nonprofit Commons Blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org

Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/npsl

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitcommons

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life

Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh

http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thats ok 🙂

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: About TechSoup the sponsors of the Nonprofit Commons:

– http://www.techsoup.org/stock/howtousetechsoup.asp

– http://flavors.me/techsoup

INTRODUCTIONS

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: So, morning – lets start with introductions

[08:37] HB Eternal: Harold W Becker, The Love Foundation, Florida, http://www.thelovefoundation.com @lovefoundation

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Please state your real name, location, org, and the ways we can find you online.

[08:37] Chayenn: Monique Richert, Protect Yourself 1, Inc., Baltimore MD, protectyourself1.org , facebook.com/PY1US, @PY1US

[08:38] Dancers Yao: Kara Bennett, Elder Voices, Los Angeles, CA Health Care and Human Rights www.eldervoices.net

[08:38] Tava Longfall: Bruce Hestley, Transgender American Veterans Association, Akron, OH, http://www.tavausa.org

[08:38] Coughran Mayo: Dick Dillon, Innovaision, LLC @Coughran @Innovaision St. Louis MO

[08:38] Gentle Heron: Virtual Ability, Inc. www.virtualability.org

[08:38] Zinnia Zauber: Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond, Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance, Sequim, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. http://www.sequimartsalliance.org http://www.facebook.com/sequimartsalliance @renneemiko

[08:38] Ozma Malibu: Sandra Andrews, Floaters Org – tech outreach in Arizona, Mexico and On the Road.

[08:38] Zotarah Shepherd: BEACH College, Santa Rosa, CA

[08:38] alebez: Ale Bezdikian, Online Community Coordinator, TechSoup, SF, Ca., @TechSoup, @alebez

[08:38] Adalace Jewell: Adalace, RoSa Library Brussels, http://www.rosadoc.be @adalace

[08:38] Coughran Mayo: On The Road! nice Ozma

[08:38] Tank Thibedeau: Ricky Davis, San Antonio, unempoyed, HIV/AIDS activist and DJ

[08:38] Atalanta Visage: Jen Siegel, National Service Inclusion Project, Boston, MA, www.serviceandinclusion.org

[08:39] Rhiannon ChatnoirRhiannon Chatnoir is Joyce Bettencourt, online community manager of the NonProfit Commons, Boston, MA, http://joycebettencourt.com, @rhiannonSL

[08:39] jacmacaire Humby: Jacques Macaire HUMANBE http://www.humanbe.com Action Tank and Council on Sustainable Development France and International @Humanbe

[08:39] bulaklak: Michael DeLong, Senior Manager Online Community and Social Media, TechSoup Global, San Francisco, CA, USA, www.techsoup.org, @MichaelDeLongSF @TechSoup

[08:39] Zotarah ShepherdZotarah Shepherd is still visiting in Seattle

[08:40] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Anyone else?

[08:40] Zinnia Zauber: We have lovely weather in Washington, don’t we?

TECH SOUP ANNOUNCEMENTS 

[08:40] Rhiannon Chatnoir: OK – Lets move on to TechSOup Announcements

[08:40] Ozma Malibu: @Coughran yes Floaters isn’t picky about whether or not members have fixed addresses

[08:41] Zotarah Shepherd: Yes

[08:41] bulaklak: Okie doke! Hi, folks. We’re super excited to welcome Jayne Cravens today. First a few updates from TechSoup.

[08:42] bulaklak: You have a few days left to enter our Technology in Action photo contest. We’re asking folks to take a picture of what Technology in Action means to them. And this could be an inworld picture, of course! Or a collage or drawing or something you made in Photoshop. It’s open to all social benefit agents and orgs. There are four ways to enter: on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or by email.

[08:43] bulaklak: Details are here: http://bit.ly/TechInAction

[08:43] bulaklak: The deadline is 11:59 PT on September 30

[08:43] bulaklak: And the prize is pretty cool: a custom-made infographic by Karma Store that you can use to engage constituents online

[08:44] bulaklak: I also want to share some news that has pretty big ramifications for one of our projects, NGOsource, and for global giving in general.

[08:45] bulaklak: The IRS and Treasury are easing the burden on global giving, which was announced at the Clinton Global Initiative by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

[08:45] bulaklak: Please read more about that here

[08:45] Carl Solutionary: Carl Icann http://carlicann.wordpress.com For Rockcliffe U, Etopia, & Feed-A-Smile: At 8am slt every Sunday, I lead Humane Education Drum Circles – Now with Poetry! Founder of Occupy Virtual Worlds http://interoccupy.net/ovw17/calendar/

[08:45] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/NGOsourceNews

[08:46] bulaklak: Welcome, Carl.

[08:46] bulaklak: And that’s all I’ve got for today!

[08:46] bulaklak: Enjoy the meeting and have a great weekend.

[08:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thanks Bulaklak

MENTORS CENTRAL

[08:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: on to Mentor’s Central!

[08:47] Zinnia Zauber: Today we have Coughran!

[08:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Today for it, we have Coughran speaking to us

[08:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: 🙂

[08:47] Zinnia Zauber: Rah!

[08:48] Gentle Heron: YAY Coughran.

[08:48] Buffy Beale: yay C!

[08:48] Coughran Mayo: Is that the intro?

[08:48] Coughran Mayo: sorta lame

[08:48] Buffy Beale: getting the drum roll ready

[08:48] Zinnia Zauber: Sorry, I should have just been chanting!

[08:48] Coughran Mayo: ha ha

[08:48] Ozma Malibu: rah!

[08:49] Zinnia Zauber: Coughran! Coughran! Coughran!

[08:49] Gentle Heron: You need no introduction.

[08:49] Buffy Beale: lol Z

[08:49] Gentle Heron: Just talk, Coughran.

[08:49] Coughran Mayo: anyway, I believe I am here to talk briefly on “Selling your VW plans in-house”

[08:49] Coughran Mayo: in 8 minutes

[08:49] Coughran Mayo: I mean I get 8 minutes to talk, your selling plan could take longer than that

[08:50] Coughran Mayo: In my discussions with many nonprofit representatives in SL, I hear a lot of similar issues that revolve around the acceptance of SL, or virtual worlds in general, as a legitimate tool or resource.

[08:50] Coughran Mayo: To begin with, it is not a general rule that the person using SL on behalf of a nonprofit is the executive director, or chief administrative officer (although that IS true in some cases).

[08:50] Coughran Mayo: More often, you have some other role with the organization – you might even be a volunteer – but you have recognized the potential for using virtual worlds to advance the mission of your nonprofit.

[08:50] Coughran Mayo: The question is, how do you get buy-in from the organization as a whole? There is a cost to SL participation. Even those of us whose groups have benefitted from the free space made available by TechSoup still have a time investment that needs to be considered. The most active NPC members may spend 10 or more hours a week inworld. It is nice If you can get credit for “working” during those hours!

[08:50] Coughran Mayo: And, of course, if you want to have additional locations in SL, even your own “Agency Island”, there is an additional cash outlay to Linden Lab to be considered.

[08:51] Coughran Mayo: And, we all want to look good and dress sharp, so don’t forget the clothing budget.

[08:51] Coughran Mayo: So the key is, how do I demonstrate to my organization the validity and the value of a virtual world presence? I think there are a few things you can do to advance this concept and gain acceptance among your group leaders.

[08:51] Zinnia Zauber: Yah!

[08:51] Coughran Mayo: First, develop a library of resources that can be shared – articles, web blogs, videos, etc. If you have outside reporters who make the case that Second Life or other virtual worlds have a meaningful use in real life concerns, you can do a lot to offset the concept that “it’s just a game”. I have a well developed list that I would be happy to share with anyone who wants to drop me an email (dickd@innovaision.com)

[08:52] Coughran Mayo: If you gather a few good resources, share the best of them with the decision makers in your organization. And, always keep your eye out for new reports or documents to pass along. Like social media, a steady but not overwhelming stream of information does a lot to keep your issue on the front burner and to persuade others of the validity of your position.

[08:52] Coughran Mayo: Second, organize a tour of the virtual world. It doesn’t have to be lengthy, and it doesn’t even have to involve other people actually logging in (sometimes that creates more problems than it solves). You can arrange a meeting (real life) and have a projector connected to your computer so that participants can watch you take a tour of the NPC sims, for example, visiting your own space and the offices of others to show what is being done with nonprofits in the VW.

[08:52] Coughran Mayo: I like to ask other NPC friends to join me when I set something like this up, so that the onlookers can not only see what the virtual space looks like but they can also begin to get a feel for how the interactions between people/avatars actually works.

[08:53] Coughran Mayo: Zinnia, Gentle and others have helped me out more than once!

[08:53] Coughran Mayo: Third, think of ways to use the virtual world to demonstrate the value to your organization internally.

[08:53] Gentle Heron: awwww

[08:53] Coughran Mayo: When I was with Preferred Family Healthcare, we arranged meetings of staff members who were separated by hundreds of miles, saving the company a lot of mileage dollars. We even did virtual job interviews with candidates from distant locations who might not have been able to meet with us had they needed to travel a long distance just for an initial interview. I know PFH hired at least one person from this activity.

[08:53] Coughran Mayo: Finally, keep your eye out for funding from grantmakers and foundations, that your organization might be able to apply for. This (virtual anything!) is a hot topic these days. If you can secure outside funding to advance the work you or your organization does, that’s a lock!

[08:54] Coughran Mayo: Put these ideas together and you can do a lot to infuluence your organization to continue to support or even expand your work in SL.

[08:55] Coughran Mayo: You CAN get paid to play!

[08:55] Hour Destiny: And try to attend conferences on virtual worlds, especially those with a focus on your area of employment?

[08:55] Gentle Heron: oohhhhhh

[08:55] Coughran Mayo: Ha, and two minutes left for questions!

[08:55] Coughran Mayo: 🙂

[08:55] Buffy Beale: you’re a pro C

[08:55] Gentle Heron: Coughran, will you be doing a full presentation on this topic any time soon?

[08:55] Coughran Mayo: online clock

[08:55] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes – questions for Coughran

[08:55] Zinnia Zauber: Rock Star!

[08:56] Coughran Mayo: Gentle yes, I will be talking about this on the Saturday after next at Agile Bill’s affair

[08:56] Coughran Mayo: which I unfortunately do not have a reference for

[08:56] Zinnia Zauber: http://www.meetup.com/agile3d/events/59490692/

[08:56] Buffy Beale: Question: Do you see Virtual Worlds gaining in popularity for business use or has it peaked?

[08:56] Coughran Mayo: but we can get it and send to NPCers

[08:56] Zinnia Zauber: http://agileworlds2012.sched.org/

[08:57] Zinnia Zauber: Those are the links to the event!

[08:57] Buffy Beale: ty Z

[08:57] Coughran Mayo: Buffy, I think if you read the Gartner “hype cycle” report for 2012, you see they believe that the legit use of virtual worlds is just starting to come into its own

[08:57] Coughran Mayo: so I’m very optimistic

[08:57] Buffy Beale: that’s good news

[08:57] Coughran Mayo: we are emerging from the “trough of disillusionment”

[08:58] J Cravens: Hi, everyone. Sorry to be late.

[08:58] Coughran Mayo: well you have my email so don’t be strangers

[08:58] Coughran Mayo: thanks!

[08:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thanks Jayne – thats ok. and thank you

[08:58] Zinnia Zauber: We are on the upswing! Coughran, is it important to find a team with “pie in the sky” ideas?

[08:58] Coughran Mayo: I’m sticking to my clock!

FEATURED PRESENTER

[08:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: so lets all Welcome Jayne Cravens who is our featured speaker for today’s meeting, talking to us about the TechSoup Forums

[08:59] Rhiannon Chatnoir: a bit about Jayne:

[08:59] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Jayne Cravens is an internationally-recognized trainer, researcher and consultant. Her work is focused on communications, volunteer involvement, community engagement, and management for nonprofits, NGOs, and government initiatives. She is a pioneer regarding the research, promotion and practice of virtual volunteering, including virtual teams, microvolunteering and crowdsourcing, and she is a veteran manager of various local and international initiatives. Jayne received her BA in Journalism from Western Kentucky University and her Master’s degree in Development Management from Open University in the U.K. She is currently based near Portland, Oregon in the USA.

[08:59] Rhiannon Chatnoir: so whenever you are ready Jayne

[08:59] J Cravens: Memorize that. There will be a test later.

[08:59] bulaklak: lol

[08:59] Hour Destiny: Logs really help my memory. 😀

[08:59] Gentle Heron: Agile Worlds 2012 online here: http://agileworlds2012.sched.org/event/40dbbb60da603130b758fa08932b84dc#…

[08:59] J Cravens: Good morning! I am so sorry I’m late! I could not find this area again – found it last night, but couldn’t this morning. Also, I have an ancient computer – really slows things down.

[08:59] Buffy Beale: Cheering!

[08:59] alebez: woooot, jayne!

[08:59] J Cravens: I’m Jayne Cravens, and this is my first Second Life event/interaction EVER! Usually, I’m wondering around by myself, bumping into things and wondering where I am – which is how I’m in real life as well.

[09:00] Tava Longfall: Welcome Jayne

[09:00] J Cravens: Wandering…..

[09:00] Zinnia Zauber: Welcome!

[09:00] J Cravens: Anyway, how many of you have been on the TechSoup community forum *this year*.

[09:00] Coughran MayoCoughran Mayo raises hand

[09:00] Hour Destiny: Me, as a guest.

[09:00] Buffy Beale: me

[09:00] Rhiannon ChatnoirRhiannon Chatnoir raises hand

[09:01] bulaklak: Me!

[09:01] J Cravens: The forum has changed a lot since it started way back in the ancient days of 2001 or so. Branches have come and gone. But what’s still true – volunteers, employees and consultants at nonprofits, libraries and other such ors have a lot of questions and comments about tech and their work.

[09:02] J Cravens: Since you all are rather savvy tech folks, I invite you to post somethiing today or this week – just something about what you’ve learned, what’s helped you, or what’s challenged you re: tech at your organization.

[09:03] J Cravens: It can be really simple – your ongoing love of FileMaker Pro to track volunteers, your ongoing hatred of teh Cloud – whatever!

[09:04] J Cravens: And, of course, you can offer questions and advice. About your smart phone that you use for work, or Second Life, or your email client, or your attempts to train fellow staff members re: some software tool – truly, whatever.

[09:04] J Cravens: What’s in it for you is that you can find other organizations that are experiencing something similar to you re: the use of tech.

[09:06] J Cravens: And ANYONE from your respective organizations can post to the TechSoup community – not just the IT staff.

[09:06] J Cravens: So, any questions? Comments?

[09:07] Hour Destiny: Are the forums only for those working at/for a nonprofit?

[09:08] Buffy Beale: I think the forum is a handy tool and glad it’s still being supported

[09:08] Coughran Mayo: chat lag

[09:08] J Cravens: You can post as a volunteer for some organization, or for nonprofits in general. Or just as someone who really cares how mission-based organizations use tech.

[09:08] Magic Pathfinder: I am really confused about TechSoups online content… there seems to be numerous channels… and it’s not clear where to focus… are any channels curated for quality?

[09:09] bulaklak: major lag

[09:09] J Cravens: The TechSoup web site has a LOT going on, it’s true. The TechSoup community forum *is* moderated.

[09:09] J Cravens: But we don’t block any content unless it’s spammy.

[09:10] J Cravens: I’m tryingn to get what’s going on in the community better integrated with TechSoup’s activities on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

[09:11] J Cravens: If you follow the #TechSOupDYB tag on Twitter, for instance, you will get tweets about questions on the TS community forum that are particularly hot, interesting, or in need of input.

[09:11] J Cravens: DYB = Donate your brain.

[09:11] J Cravens: Have I missed answering any questions ? I know there’s a serious chat lag.

[09:12] Hour Destiny: Can one access the forums from a prim in SL? That might increase the number of those aware of the forums.

[09:12] bulaklak: How did you first get involved in the forums?

[09:12] J Cravens: Hour Destiny, someone else will have to answer that. MIchael?

[09:12] J Cravens: How I got involved – I got involved with TechSoup when it was Compumentor and sent tech volunteers to nonprofits – I was a client!

[09:13] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Hour – you should be able to… via web on a prim, you could view with no issues and then if you wanted to post, you would have to login and it should allow you to enter/submit…but we would have to test that

[09:13] bulaklak: Thanks, Rhiannon.

[09:13] J Cravens: Then when the TechSoup community was launched, Susan Tenby invited me to participate – and I jumped all over it. I was at the UN at the time, and desperate to talk to other nonprofits re: tech. I was still using USENET, and it was so spammy, it had become useless.

[09:14] Hour Destiny: NNTP.

[09:15] Tava Longfall: My question is how do you keep track of all the different communication channels?

[09:15] J Cravens: I’ve been a client, volunteer and consultant with TechSoup – I expect to get to be janitor at some point, just to cover all the bases.

[09:15] bulaklak: We hire more and more contractors!

[09:15] J Cravens: Tava, if by communications channels you mean Twitter, Facebook, SecondLife, etc., that’s something MIchael or Susan will have to answer.

[09:16] Buffy Beale: lol on the janitor job

[09:16] J Cravens: If you just mean the forum – we track all the different branch activity with old fashioned human review – there’s not a huge amount of traffic, so no software is needed.

[09:16] J Cravens: We involve volunteers – the TechSoup Royal Court – to help keep out spam and to act as subject matter experts.

[09:17] Tava Longfall: I mean by the time I get through emails and facebooks and everything I miss some

[09:17] J Cravens: We have volunteers who are experts at security, for instance.

[09:17] J Cravens: Tava, I hear your pain. For a huge organization like TechSoup, that’s a HUGE challenge.

[09:17] Rhiannon Chatnoir: monitoring and tracking social media would be a great topic of a future meeting 🙂

[09:17] J Cravens: The community team meets every friday on the phone, religiously, because of the need for that kind of internal communication.

[09:18] J Cravens: I agree with Rhiannon, because I don’t know of any nonprofit doing it especially well.

[09:19] J Cravens: I think some people think text-based communities / bulletin boards are on their way out, but I don’t at all – it’s still a preferred “gathering” mehtod for a lot of folks. However, without social media support, such is doomed. Hence why TechSoup does the #TechSoupDYB tag on Twitter.

[09:19] Rhiannon Chatnoir: a few of us here were talking about Beth Kanter’s new book about analyzing the networked nonprofit… will see if we can get her to come speak to us on it – she was an early member of the NonProfit Commons here in Second Life 🙂

[09:19] J Cravens: Right now, I’m refining how the community contributes to the stated goals of TechSoup.

[09:20] J Cravens: Measuring the value of online community, as well as social media outreach, is a challenge – so many of the for-profit/corproate measures do NOT apply.

[09:20] Hour Destiny: http://betanews.com/2012/09/24/bitrix24-gives-away-free-cloud-based-soci… might be of interest.

[09:20] J Cravens: Any other questions or comments about the forum? What can I say to entice you to come post?!

[09:21] Rhiannon Chatnoir: what are some of the most popular forum threads/topics

[09:21] J Cravens: I do hope you will head over to techsoup.org and click on “community” and then “Forum”!

[09:22] J Cravens: Most popular forum is the databases/software forum, in terms of sheer volume.

[09:22] bulaklak: In a way, though, that’s liberating. We can measure success by whether or not questions get answered, which is helpful.

[09:22] J Cravens: Most common question is “What software should I use to do –fillintheblank–“

[09:22] J Cravens: But the more interesting conversations are things like, “Should I block Facebook at work?” or….

[09:23] J Cravens: Should I allow my staff to telecommute.

[09:23] J Cravens: The policy questions are really good debate starters.

[09:24] Coughran Mayo: Telecommuting workers get more done, according to a recent report

[09:24] Hour Destiny: There should be a sticky about how to ask a question.

[09:24] J Cravens: I do a lot of followup with people who post, to see if they get answers to their question.

[09:24] J Cravens: Or felt they got answers. Some of the best comments come from that followup.

[09:24] Buffy Beale: do you have a link for that C?

[09:25] J Cravens: Hour Destiny, do you think people don’t understand the mechanics of asking a question, or how to express such?

[09:25] J Cravens: Buffy – sorry, not understanding….

[09:25] Buffy Beale: Coughran mentioned a report

[09:25] Buffy Beale: I call him C 🙂

[09:25] Coughran Mayo: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-25/what-people-really-do-wh…

[09:26] Buffy Beale: you’re the best C 🙂 ty

[09:26] J Cravens: I could totally speak to the realities of working from home… but I’ll save that for another time.

[09:26] J Cravens: I will say that telecommuting manuals formed the early recommendations regarding virtual volunteering. Some of you may know I’ve researched that topic since 1996 (yikes).

[09:27] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes – another good topic

[09:27] Hour Destiny: jcraves42, I’ve seen too many posts that go like “please help me”.

[09:27] J Cravens: Yeah, the “please help me” posts happen a lot – and that means myself or a community forum volunteer has to write that person and tease out what it is they mean.

[09:27] J Cravens: It’s important to remember that some of these folks are NOT “techies”, and don’t even know how to frame their needs.

[09:28] J Cravens: I hear from people all the time that say they would ask a question, but they “don’t want to sound stupid.”

[09:28] J Cravens: So we work really hard to be welcoming.

[09:29] J Cravens: Some people post that “Please help me message”, and then disappear – they don’t respond to followup messages. I always wonder what happened to them….

[09:29] Tava Longfall: Stupid question is the one you don’t ask

[09:29] Hour Destiny: And they probably don’t bother to read stickies…

[09:30] J Cravens: I repeat myself a lot in messages to members – but I’ve been an online moderator since 1994 (yes, the Internet was around then), so I know that comes with it.

[09:30] J Cravens: I just pretend I’m saying it for the first time.

[09:30] Tava Longfall: And some are so overwhelmed, they don’t know where to start

[09:30] Hour Destiny: Heh. I’ve been on the Internet since 1994 myself.

[09:31] J Cravens: A lot of nonprofits are looking for that one super IT volunteer who can do EVERYTHING – design and manage the web site, design a Facebook outreach strategy, network all the computers, troubleshoot… that person doesn’t exist.

[09:32] J Cravens: So we encourage people to think in pieces – and that can be hard, because people aren’t sure how to break things up.

[09:32] J Cravens: I know it’s a cliche, but I look at the TS community, and all online communties, as a garden.

[09:33] Hour Destiny: Actually, I’ve done all that. 🙂

[09:33] J Cravens: I also try to think, “OKay, if we were all in a room together, face to face, how would I handle this?” Often gives me ideas of what to do online.

[09:33] Rhiannon Chatnoir: good strategy

[09:33] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any other final questions for Jayne?

[09:33] J Cravens: Involving volunteers has been key – I’m currently recruiting more SME experts, both via the community and via outside channels, like VolunteerMatch.

[09:34] J Cravens: Okay, well, come on over to the forum, and follw me on jcravens42 on Twitter! & I’ll come back, I promise, as an enthusiastic attendee, to one of your future events.

[09:35] J Cravens: http://www.techsoup.org (click on “Community”, then “Forum”)

[09:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: we would love to have you

[09:35] Hour Destiny: http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/PnbDARyK/100-tips-for-using-linkedin…

[09:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Lets thank Jayne for speaking to us today!

[09:35] Buffy Beale: cheering! thanks Jayne!

[09:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great!

[09:35] Tava Longfall: We’re here every Friday

[09:35] Zotarah ShepherdZotarah Shepherd applaudes

[09:36] Gentle Heron: Thank you Jayne. Come visit us again of a Friday morning.

[09:36] J Cravens: Sorry I was late! Glad I didn’t step on anyone.

[09:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: feel free to stay seated here Jayne

OPEN MIC / ANNOUNCEMENTS

[09:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: we are going to move on to Open Mic / Announcements

[09:36] J Cravens: Probably for the best.

[09:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: so if anyone ahs any announcements for today?

[09:36] Rhiannon Chatnoir: has even

[09:36] Buffy Beale: it’s a requirement to sit down on someone at least once in SL 🙂

[09:36] Buffy Beale: hand up

[09:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes.. happens all the time

[09:37] Buffy Beale: hand up for open mic I mean, not that I sat on someone 🙂

[09:37] Zinnia Zauber: me please

[09:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: be thankful you werent part of the ‘box on the head’ early days of Second Life

[09:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: lol Buffy

[09:37] Buffy Beale: lol

[09:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: ok, first Buffy, then Zinnia

[09:37] Buffy Beale: thanks Rhi

[09:38] Buffy Beale: If you look around you’ll see that Zinnia, Par and Brena put out NPC members logos

[09:38] Hour Destiny: Rhiannon, like we were for Jon Stewart?

[09:38] Buffy Beale: but… we sadly are still missing some

[09:38] Rhiannon Chatnoir: nod Hour

[09:39] Rhiannon Chatnoir: who should they send their logos to Buffy? if they do not see theirs.

[09:39] HB Eternal: the logos are a great visual

[09:39] Buffy Beale: so if you have not handed in your logo to either of those three or myself, please remember we need it and next time yours will be up there too

[09:39] Buffy Beale: either myself or Brena or Zinnia would do

[09:40] Buffy Beale: that’s it, thanks

[09:40] Zinnia Zauber: Thanks, Buffy!

[09:40] Hour Destiny: Does clicking a logo take one to that’s organization’s area?

[09:40] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great

[09:40] Zinnia Zauber: It shares info and a Landmark.

[09:40] Buffy Beale: no Hour, they’re only temporary for the event we had last week

[09:40] Rhiannon Chatnoir: and next Zinnia

[09:40] Zinnia Zauber: If orgs gave us info, we put it in.

[09:41] Zinnia Zauber: I want to thank everyone for being part of our celebration last week.

[09:41] Chayenn: it was so great

[09:41] Zinnia Zauber: And, encourage you to read the transcript from the Community Planning Workshop we had.

[09:41] Buffy Beale: it was fun!

[09:41] Zinnia Zauber: http://www.nonprofitcommons.org/content/pay-it-forward-transcript-collab…

[09:42] Zinnia Zauber: We were very pleased with how that event went and the connections that were made.

[09:42] Ozma Malibu: The Community Planning Workshop was a real eye-opener for me.

[09:42] Zinnia Zauber: The CommonGround Meet and Greet was a great time to connect as well.

[09:42] Zinnia Zauber: I think we forged some new friendships there.

[09:43] Rhiannon Chatnoir: maybe we can do a mentors corner or presentation at one of our upcoming meetings on a deeper recap of the community workshop

[09:43] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, Ozma!

[09:43] Adalace Jewell: sorry guys, need to go. thx for the meeting

[09:43] Zinnia Zauber: Please check out the transcript.

[09:43] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great

[09:43] Zinnia Zauber: And, thank you for joining us for our members speaking during the meeting.

[09:43] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thanks Zinnia – if your set – Gentle has an announcement too

[09:44] Gentle Heron: I’d like to promote a conference coming up for virtual world business development. Several NPCers will be speakers, and others you may be interested in. Take a look here at what you can learn between Wednesday October 3 and Saturday October 6.

http://agileworlds2012.sched.org/

[09:45] Gentle Heron: Topics include global teamwork, virtual worlds as service delivery tool, professional image, collaboration skills across time zones, and many more.

I hope some of our organizations will be able to let us attend. There is a (reasonable) cost to attend.

[09:45] Coughran Mayo: USD$45

[09:45] Gentle Heron: As I said, reasonable.

[09:45] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, Gentle! I know Coughran, Pathfinder, and myself are speaking. And, this event is a fundraiser as well.

[09:45] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great

[09:46] Zinnia Zauber: This event supports virtualability.org, UW Avalumni, and Rockcliffe University Consortium.

[09:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any other announcements

[09:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: … there is a languages/machinima event going on all weekend this weekend… will paste details here

[09:47] Rhiannon Chatnoir: 6th SLanguages Annual Symposium 28-30 September 2012

A free 3-day conference on Language & Culture

in Virtual Worlds held on EduNation in Second Life.

Twitter hashtag: #slang12

Themes: Educational Games and Machinima

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Come join us for 3 days and 50h of program to listen to some 55

guest speakers and actionaries for a weekend on language learning

& culture in virtual worlds such as Second Life, Open Sim and others.

Here are the highlights of the program.

Keynotes by Stylianos Mystakidis and Dr. Cynthia Calongna

Symposium on Euroversity, Visual Anthropology and a Spanish Symposium

Presentations, tours, demo lessons and workshops

Machinimas (3D Video films)

Two 3-hour workshops on how to create a machinima (video in SL)

A games park with some 50 educational games

A ballet performance ‘Petah and the Wolf’ and a party

all sessions are livestreamed with Adobe Connect

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HOMEPAGE

http://avalon-project.ning.com/

[09:48] Rhiannon Chatnoir: have collaborated with the MachinEvo group and EduNation – looks interesting 🙂

[09:48] Hour Destiny: Too bad there’s not a TV network for nonprofits.

[09:48] Rhiannon Chatnoir: could happen

[09:48] Rhiannon ChatnoirRhiannon Chatnoir can teach you all to live stream SL

[09:49] Gentle Heron: Hour, most often you can get on your local channel if you have something to put on regularly.

[09:49] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any other announcements otherwise we can lose up the meeting

[09:49] Rhiannon Chatnoir: close

[09:50] Rhiannon Chatnoir: then thanks to Jayne (who had to head out a bit early) and everyone else for being here this week

[09:50] Rhiannon Chatnoir: And again, here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life:

– Nonprofit Commons Blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org

– Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com

– Twitter: http://twitter.com/npsl

– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitcommons

– Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life

– Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh

– http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

About TechSoup the sponsors of the Nonprofit Commons:

– http://www.techsoup.org/stock/howtousetechsoup.asp

– http://flavors.me/techsoup

Thanks everyone and see you next week!

[09:50] Rhiannon Chatnoir: have a wonderful weekend too

[09:51] alebez: goodbye everyone! enjoy the weekend.

[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: Mentors Meeting at 10!

[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: Please take care everyone and see you soon!

[09:51] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes!

[09:52] Chayenn: Have a good week end see u next friday

[09:52] Coughran Mayo: I must go, sorry. will miss the Mentors meeting

[09:52] Rhiannon Chatnoir: and … I am setting up our fall speakers calendar.. so if you or anyone else you think would be good to come present to us here at NPC – send them my way

[09:52] Buffy Beale: ok Rhi will do

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir

On Friday, September 21st meeting featured the community coming together to celebrate the NPC’s 5th Anniversary, this included Marnie Webb, the Co-CEO of Tech Soup along with mentors and other long-time community members presenting.

Nonprofit Commons Weekly Meeting

Friday, September 21st, 8:30 AM SLT / PST

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26

AGENDA

• 8:30 am Introductions
• 8:40 am TechSoup Announcements
• 8:45 am Mentors Central
• 8:55 am Main Speaker: Ale Bezdikian
• 9:30 am Open Mic / Announcements

http://nonprofitcommons.org 

– Unabridged Transcript –

INTRODUCTIONS

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Welcome everyone to this week’s Nonprofit Commons Weekly meeting!

[08:37] Rhiannon Chatnoir: The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is sponsored by TechSoup Global and is a program of the TechSoup Global Community & Social Media team.

[08:38] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Today’s Agenda:

8:30 AM Introductions

8:40 AM TechSoup Announcements

8:45 AM Nonprofit Commons History – Buffy Beale

9:00 AM All Star NPC Members’ Stories for the Future – Ozma Malibu, Jacmacaire Humby, and Coughran Mayo

9:30 AM Nonprofit Commons All Star Awards – Brena Benoir and Zinnia Zauber

9:45 AM Open Mic / Announcements

[08:38] Panny BakerlyPanny Bakerly claps

[08:38] Rhiannon Chatnoir: First a few links to start off the meeting. 

Here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life:

• Nonprofit Commons Blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org
• Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/npsl
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitcommons
• Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life
• Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh
• http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

About TechSoup the sponsors of the Nonprofit Commons:

• http://www.techsoup.org/stock/howtousetechsoup.asp
• http://flavors.me/techsoup

[08:38] Rhiannon Chatnoir: So, let’s start off with introductions!

[08:39] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Please state your real name, location, org, and the ways we can find you online.

[08:39] Buffy Beale: Buffy Bye, Bridges for Women, Victoria BC Canada, http://www.bridgesforwomen.ca @bridges4women

[08:39] Zotarah Shepherd: BEACH College, Santa Rosa, CA

[08:39] Zinnia Zauber: Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond, Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance, Sequim, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. http://www.sequimartsalliance.org http://www.facebook.com/sequimartsalliance @renneemiko

[08:39] Ronnie Rhode: Denise Harrison, The Garden for the Missing, http://www.gardenforthemissing.org/ and SLURL Remora (203,148,21), Project Jason, assistance for families of the missing, http://www.projectjason.org.

[08:39] Adalace Jewell: Corine Van Hellemont, RoSa Library, Brussels – Belgium @adalace

[08:39] MarnieWebb: marnie webb w/ techsoup global

[08:39] Coughran Mayo: Dick Dillon, Innovaision, LLC St. Louis MO @Coughran, @Innovaision

[08:39] Glitteractica Cookie: Susan Tenby, Online Community Director, TechSoup San Francisco CA SUA @suzboop @techsoup

[08:39] Brena Benoir: Brenda Bryan, Preferred Family Healthcare, Kirksville, Missouri, www.pfh.org, @brenabenoir

[08:39] alebez: Ale Bezdikian, Online Community Coordinator, TechSoup, SF, Ca. @TechSoup, @alebez

[08:39] Pathfinder Lester: John Lester, Montreal, Chief Learning Officer at ReactionGrid, http://about.me/pathfinder, @Pathfinder

[08:39] bulaklak: Michael DeLong, Online Community Manager, TechSoup Global, San Francisco, CA www.techsoup.org, @TechSoup @MichaelDeLongSF

[08:39] Panny Bakerly: Jeanne Booth, Freeport Historical Society, Freeport, NY freeporthistorymuseum.org

[08:39] Svea Morane: Brian Kaihoi, Mayo Clinic, www.mayoclinic.org

[08:40] Ozma Malibu: Sandy Andrews, Floaters technology outreach, currently in Arizona, @ozma

[08:40] Tank Thibedeau: Ricky Davis, San Antonio, TX http://www.urbanskribbles.net

[08:40] Rhiannon ChatnoirRhiannon Chatnoir is Joyce Bettencourt, Community Manager for NonProfit Commons, Boston, http://joycebettencourt.com, @RhiannonSL

[08:40] Chayenn: monique Richert. Protect Yourself 1, Inc , Baltimore MD , protectyourself1.org, facebook.com/PY1US , @PY1US

[08:40] Par: Bartholomew Cubbins, generic volunteer, north of Baltimore MD, no website or twitter

[08:40] Dancers Yao: Kara Bennett, Elder Voices, Inc Los Angeles, CA www.eldervoices.net

[08:40] Ozma Malibu: Bartholomew! indeed.

[08:40] Ethelred Weatherwax: Dave Dexter, Neenah Historical Society, Wisconsin USA

[08:40] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great – any others?

[08:41] Panny BakerlyPanny Bakerly waves to Ethelred

[08:41] Rhiannon Chatnoir: ok … let’s move on to TechSoup Announcements

[08:41] CarmenLittleFawn: Lorna Hawkins, Executive Director Drive By agony, California http://lornah.wix.com/keepingkidssafe

TECH SOUP ANNOUNCEMENTS – FEATURING MARNIE WEBB

[08:41] bulaklak: Howdy, folks! Excited to be here in this very festive environment today.

[08:42] Carl Solutionary: Carl Icann http://carlicann.wordpress.com For Rockcliffe U, Etopia, & Feed-A-Smile: At 8am slt every Sunday, I lead Humane Education Drum Circles – Now with Poetry! Founder of Occupy Virtual Worlds http://www.facebook.com/groups/231407276985298/

[08:42] bulaklak: And super excited to welcome our co-CEO Marnie Webb

[08:42] Glitteractica Cookie: woot

[08:42] Zinnia Zauber: Rah!

[08:42] bulaklak: But first want to tell you about a webinar next week I am also very excited about.

[08:42] Gentle Heron: Hello and welcome Marnie.

[08:42] Magic Pathfinder: Magic Pathfinder (any1.gynoid), Faculty at New Citizens Inc (NCI), Teaching hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Pathfinding in Second Life – More Info: http://any1gynoid.wordpress.com/

[08:42] bulaklak: I don’t think I am allowed to say “excited” any more times today.

[08:42] CarmenLittleFawn: HAHAH

[08:43] bulaklak: So as you all may know, we have a terrific initiative called TechSoup for Libraries

[08:43] bulaklak: Where public libraries, like nonprofits, are eligible for tech resources through TechSoup

[08:43] bulaklak: Next week they are putting on a free webinar on the topic of community content creation

[08:44] bulaklak: They will be talking with the Escondido Public Library, who has a fantastic program called LibraryYOU

[08:44] bulaklak: where they put the content creation tools in the hands of its patrons

[08:44] bulaklak: in order to let them share knowledge with each other

[08:45] bulaklak: the webinar will look at ways that any library, nonprofit, or other type of social benefit org can find those hidden gems of content producers in their own communities

[08:45] bulaklak: That is on 9/25 and here is the link to register

[08:45] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/Uee1ZI

[08:45] bulaklak: As always with our webinars, if you request captioning 72 hours in advance, that is something we can provide

[08:45] bulaklak: to make them more accessible

[08:46] bulaklak: It will also be recorded and archived

[08:46] bulaklak: And that is all I got for today!

[08:46] bulaklak: Thanks, all!

[08:46] CarmenLittleFawn: ty 🙂

[08:46] Rhiannon Chatnoir: As Bulaklak mentioned, we have a special guest today., Marnie Webb, who is the co-CEO of TechSoup Global. She is very interested in how communities — online and offline — work.

[08:46] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Marnie if you want to say a few words 🙂

[08:46] MarnieWebb: Hello everyone.

[08:47] Veri Oddfellow: *Waves* HIya Marnie! Glad to see you.

[08:47] CarmenLittleFawn: Hi 🙂

[08:47] MarnieWebb: I work with Susan at TechSoup and, as a part of my job, I work a lot with communities.

[08:47] MarnieWebb: And, by many measures, this community

[08:47] Orange Planer: Welcome to Second Life. If we can obfuscate you in any way, let me know.

[08:47] MarnieWebb: The one that we are in here

[08:47] MarnieWebb: is the most engaged community in which we operate.

[08:47] Veri Oddfellow: LOL Orange!

[08:47] MarnieWebb: And I don’t think that has very much to do with second life

[08:47] MarnieWebb: though it provides the place

[08:48] MarnieWebb: I think it has a lot to do with the way the community engages over time to make this place a destination

[08:48] MarnieWebb: We’ve learned a lot from all of you

[08:48] MarnieWebb: From these weekly meetings

[08:48] MarnieWebb: From the projects in which you are engaged

[08:48] MarnieWebb: and over the last five years

[08:48] MarnieWebb: you keep coming back

[08:48] MarnieWebb: and interacting

[08:48] MarnieWebb: and growing this place

[08:48] MarnieWebb: into the robust community it is today

[08:49] MarnieWebb: and I want to thank you.

[08:49] MarnieWebb: So,

[08:49] Glitteractica Cookie: and you have remained at 35 ppl per mtg. which is solid

[08:49] MarnieWebb: Thank you.

[08:49] Glitteractica Cookie: Thank you for supporting this endeavor

[08:49] Buffy Beale: cheering!

[08:49] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Thanks Marnie for taking the time to come in-world with the NPC community today!

[08:49] CarmenLittleFawn: yay

[08:49] Veri Oddfellow: *applause*

[08:49] MarnieWebb: Thank you for letting me visit

[08:49] Coughran Mayo: Come back soon!

[08:49] MarnieWebb: And, you know, teleporting me here.

[08:49] MarnieWebb: Does anyone have any questions?

[08:50] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you Marnie! It is wonderful to have your support of our community’s efforts!

[08:50] MarnieWebb: About TechSoup or why we think this is important.

[08:50] Glitteractica Cookie: questions?

[08:50] Buffy Beale: It’s been an amazing adventure, long live TechSoup!

[08:50] Orange Planer: I’d state the obvious question, but it’s obvious.

[08:50] Buffy Beale: Question: Do you feel supporting the NPC has been good for TechSoup?

[08:50] MarnieWebb: Yes, it’s been very good for TechSoup.

[08:51] MarnieWebb: We’ve had engagement with projects

[08:51] Glitteractica Cookie: which is…Orange?

[08:51] MarnieWebb: — like last week’s talk about the Mayo clinic work —

[08:51] MarnieWebb: that we wouldn’t have exposure to otherwisse

[08:51] Orange Planer: “Why does TechSoup feel that Second Life/NPC is important?”

[08:51] Gwendolyn McGinnis: there is no music here ?

[08:51] Buffy Beale: that’s great to hear Marnie ty

[08:51] MarnieWebb: and that has helped us grow the ways that we work in other communities and in real life

[08:51] Gwendolyn McGinnis: or my damn computer sux again ?

[08:51] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Gwen, no during the meeting it is text only

[08:52] MarnieWebb: We feel it’s important because it’s a place where people can come together

[08:52] Buffy Beale: perfect, it’s the same for the orgs here I think, connecting with others

[08:52] MarnieWebb: when we started this we were at an event

[08:52] Gwendolyn McGinnis: ha sorry

[08:52] MarnieWebb: where Ansche Chung talked about how second life

[08:52] MarnieWebb: transported her out of a rural communitiy in china and provided access

[08:52] MarnieWebb: we are all about using technology to provide people with access

[08:52] MarnieWebb: and second life is a venue in which that can happen.

[08:53] Zinnia Zauber: Marnia, how do you feel we can collaborate in the future using social media and virtual worlds?

[08:53] Rhiannon Chatnoir: any other questions.. I know Marnie only has a few minutes left

[08:53] Orange Planer: OK, if that isn’t a clear statement of support for what we all believe in, I don’t know what is.

[08:53] Buffy Beale: Encouraging to hear Marnie, thank you!

[08:53] MarnieWebb: I think that we can use virtual worlds and social media to model interactions that we could never have in real life

[08:53] MarnieWebb: as these technologies get stronger and easier to access

[08:54] MarnieWebb: and have more tools — even things like google glasses or mapping overlays —

[08:54] MarnieWebb: that allow us to blend the different environments

[08:54] MarnieWebb: i think that we’ll find that we are able to solve problems around specific issues

[08:54] MarnieWebb: and move those issues — the issues we are all committed on working on — forward.

[08:55] Zinnia Zauber: Are you excited to see more and more of that engagement?

[08:55] MarnieWebb: (I’m super impressed by some of William Gibson’s books and I think those have some hints of that in their art projets)

[08:55] Zinnia Zauber: We know we have to help train people to use these tools and this is a super forum to do it in.

[08:55] MarnieWebb: Anything that brings engagement across communities and provides avenues for interaction and creativity is important

[08:55] MarnieWebb: anything that helps bring more community to our community is valuable.

[08:56] Ozma Malibu: Marnie you are SO ENCOURAGING thank you.

[08:56] Glitteractica Cookie: She’s pretty cool

[08:56] MarnieWebb: Thank you all.

[08:56] CarmenLittleFawn: I knew of techsoup from the 90’s through California Wellness Foundation, a lot was going on back then, and it was not until I came to second life that I really utilized what you have to offer

[08:56] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes to community, creativity and collaboration

[08:56] MarnieWebb: Thank you all for letting me drop in today.

[08:56] MarnieWebb: In real life, i’m sitting in a room filling up with our IT staff and I’ve got to go to that meeting.

[08:56] Pathfinder Lester: well said, marnie

[08:56] MarnieWebb: I’m sorry to have to leave mid way through.

[08:56] Buffy Beale: Oh Marnie come take one of the tours, like a magic carpet ride 🙂

[08:56] Rhiannon Chatnoir: We are happy you took time to Marnie 🙂

[08:57] Panny Bakerly: Thank you Marnie

[08:57] CarmenLittleFawn: tyMarinie

[08:57] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you for joining us today!

[08:57] Gentle Heron: Thanks for coming Marnie.

[08:57] Orange Planer: Not that you have tons of time, but if you have questions for anybody, feel free to drop in, send an IM or notecard.

[08:57] Namaara MacMoragh: Thank you Marnie

[08:57] Rhiannon Chatnoir: And, of course any time you want to drop in the future.. would be wonderful

[08:57] CarmenLittleFawn: nice meeting u

[08:57] MarnieWebb: Nice meeting all of you.

[08:57] Rhiannon Chatnoir: let’s thank Marnie !

[08:57] Veri Oddfellow: Thanks, Marnie! Be well!

[08:57] MarnieWebb: Now: celebrate!

[08:57] Glitteractica Cookie: 🙂

[08:57] Zinnia Zauber: Yay!

[08:57] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you!

[08:57] Buffy Beale: Cheering!!!

[08:57] Glitteractica Cookie: Bye marnie

[08:58] CarmenLittleFawn: eheheh have a great day

[08:58] Coughran Mayo: *air horn*

[08:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great !

[08:58] bulaklak: woo hoo!

[08:58] Zinnia Zauber: lol

NONPROFIT COMMONS HISTORY – FEATURING BUFFY BEALE

[08:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: So, now we can move to the parts of today’s agenda that start our day long celebration

[08:59] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Lets welcome Buffy up here to talk about NonProfit Commons history

[08:59] Coughran Mayo: Yay, Buffy!

[08:59] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Buffy!

[08:59] CarmenLittleFawn: clapping

[08:59] Ozma Malibu: Yay Buffy!

[08:59] Buffy Beale: Wow this cupcake is comfy

[08:59] Gentle HeronGentle Heron applauds for Buffy and sits at her feet.

[08:59] Zinnia Zauber: How about you guys join the audience now?

[08:59] Rhiannon Chatnoir: 🙂

[08:59] Zotarah Shepherd: Of course

[08:59] Buffy Beale: lol it’s ok I like to rub shoulders with the brass

[08:59] Panny BakerlyPanny Bakerly starting to sink into the icing

[09:00] Buffy Beale: please do stay

[09:00] Coughran Mayo: Bruce Springsteen is here?

[09:00] Coughran Mayo: oh you said brass, not boss

[09:00] Buffy Beale: ooooooo hope so, hi Bruce

[09:00] alebez: 🙂 buffy

[09:00] Buffy Beale: lol C

[09:00] Buffy Beale: ok so….

[09:00] Zinnia Zauber: We are thankful to have Buffy share with us her insight of the NPC History.

[09:00] Buffy Beale: Hello and good morning-afternoon-evening wherever you are in the world today, here you are joining in with others from around the world. Isn’t that just the best thing about Second Life… we can connect from anywhere.

[09:00] Buffy Beale: Today marks a special day but every Friday is special to me because of our weekly meetings here at the Nonprofit Commons (NPC), where we’ve been meeting now for 5 years. Five years of packed agenda’s, that is no small feat.

[09:00] CarmenLittleFawn: mmhmm

[09:01] Buffy Beale: There are so many here today who have been here longer than I have, so I’ll just share one of my first impressions.

[09:01] Buffy Beale: I think most know the story of how I found the NPC, seeing TechSoup in someone’s group, looking them up and dropping off a notecard to thank them.

[09:01] Buffy Beale: The organization I volunteer for in Real Life, Bridges for Women has used TechSoup for years and it’s because of TechSoup we can afford to keep current with our software.

[09:02] Buffy Beale: I say it a lot, and I’ll say it again…. Long Life TechSoup!

[09:02] Buffy Beale: Not long after, Glitteractica Cookie (what a name lol!) invited me to join here and the rest is history.

[09:02] Veri Oddfellow: Amen, sista!

[09:02] Glitteractica Cookie: I’m so glad we stayed

[09:02] Buffy Beale: lol Veri 🙂 ty Glitter

[09:02] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes

[09:02] Buffy Beale: I’ll never forget my first meeting here, and surprise that it was more than just a group meeting to chit-chat, like many group gatherings. No, it was being engaged with an interesting presentation and an opportunity to make an announcement should I have one for Bridges.. I was impressed from the get-go and dazzled by the concept of having an office here for Bridges.

[09:02] CarmenLittleFawn: mmhmm

[09:03] Buffy Beale: But, that first meeting was a milestone for me.

[09:03] Buffy Beale: When Glitteractica Cookie asked us to say our real names and location, I froze. I mean, this is the internet and one is supposed to stay safe and not reveal one tiny thing about ourselves… to say my name out loud was terrifying!

[09:04] CarmenLittleFawn: she crashed

[09:04] Par: I guess she was too terrified

[09:04] CarmenLittleFawn: hehehehe

[09:04] CarmenLittleFawn: Par

[09:04] Zinnia Zauber: aww

[09:05] Rhiannon Chatnoir: oh no.. Zinnia do you want to come up and fill in any gaps

[09:05] Zinnia Zauber: We all know that we crash once and awhile.

[09:05] CarmenLittleFawn: oh yes

[09:05] Zinnia Zauber: That is why it is so important to have supportive peeps

[09:05] Coughran Mayo: whenever I type an exclamation point, I crash too

[09:05] Zinnia Zauber: to pick us up and help us move on.

[09:05] Rhiannon Chatnoir: nod

[09:05] CarmenLittleFawn: nods

[09:05] Conover’s Flight-Helper 6.3.3 (WEAR ME!): Flight-helper is ready and operational.

[09:05] Coughran Mayo: wb Buffy

[09:05] Zinnia Zauber: Buffy is such a great example of what this community is.

[09:05] Zinnia Zauber: Welcome back!

[09:05] CarmenLittleFawn: wb

[09:05] Buffy Beale: oh my stars lol what a time to crash

[09:06] Buffy Beale: I’m sorry all 🙂

[09:06] CarmenLittleFawn: np

[09:06] Glitteractica Cookie: whenever I tlak about our super users and our biggest ambassadors across all channels, I invoke buffy

[09:06] Buffy Beale: composes herself…

[09:06] Zinnia Zauber: I know that because of Buffy’s encouragement, I became more engaged because I felt welcome.

[09:06] CarmenLittleFawn: 🙂

[09:06] Zinnia Zauber: Please Buffy, continue.

[09:06] CarmenLittleFawn: yes she is a gem

[09:06] Buffy Beale: as I was saying…

[09:07] Gentle Heron: You said “terrified” and disappeared. It was perfect timing, Buffy! Very dramatic.

[09:07] Buffy Beale: to say my name out loud was terrifying!

[09:07] Buffy Beale: lol Gentle

[09:07] Buffy Beale: I only had a few minutes to decide… was I in or out.

[09:07] Buffy Beale: My screen lit up with names of the others; I was mesmerized by the sound-off of names and locations from all over the world. People like Coughran and Ozma and Glitteractica and InKenzo merrily typed out their info without hesitation.

[09:07] Buffy Beale: It didn’t matter if they were a pink cat or a green fairy giant… these were real people

[09:08] Buffy Beale: If they could do it, so could I as it gave me the confidence to jump in too. I’ve never looked back.

[09:08] Glitteractica Cookie: 🙂

[09:08] Buffy Beale: LOL now it’s a race between myself and a few others to be first, mostly HB who teases me every time he ‘wins’, my how times have changed.

[09:08] Buffy Beale: It still gives me a warm feeling those morning introductions to see where we’re all from. Truly we are a global community of caring people who want to make a difference in the world. It doesn’t get much better than that.

[09:08] Buffy Beale: I’d like to thank you Susan, er Glitter for having the vision and gumption to make the Nonprofit Commons a reality. It couldn’t have been easy, 5 years ago this virtual reality was such a big question mark for a lot of reasons, mostly because it was thought it is NOT a place for serious happenings.

[09:08] Buffy Beale: We know better now.

[09:09] Buffy Beale: I know it takes a team behind you too, so a hearty thank you to everyone from TechSoup, here we are 5 years under our belts.

[09:09] Buffy Beale: It’s been great having alebez and bulaklak join in too, so thanks you two you’re doing a fantastic job, as is Rhiannon.. our fearless leaders 🙂

[09:09] Glitteractica Cookie: Yes, it’s been challenging to convince them to take it seriously at times. The Congressional hearing helped though

[09:09] Veri Oddfellow: Here, here! Yay Glitter!

[09:09] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes!

[09:09] Buffy Beale: I can well imagine!

[09:09] Buffy Beale: Also, it’s been so wonderful to have people like Parhelion Palou, Brena Benoir and Zinnia Zauber take the time to create this festive meeting place today, hearty applause to you for your hard work! Please forgive me if I’ve left anyone out 🙂

[09:09] Buffy Beale: This is a time to celebrate the past today and rejoice in the fact we passed this important milestone; onwards we go to the future because when virtual reality becomes mainstream (which I believe it will), we’ll be ready.

[09:10] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you very much Buffy! We have a great team!

[09:10] Buffy Beale: We are the pioneers.

[09:10] Buffy Beale: Thank you everyone for coming today and yehaaaa… let the party begin 🙂

[09:10] Zinnia Zauber: Rah!

[09:10] Buffy Beale: Standing ovation for the NPC!

[09:10] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you Buffy! You inspire us all!

[09:11] Brena Benoir: Woohoo Buffy!

[09:11] CarmenLittleFawn: yes she is 🙂

[09:11] Glitteractica Cookie: standing ovation for buffy

[09:11] Coughran Mayo: Thanks, Buffy!

[09:11] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great.. Zinnia why don’t you come up and lead us into the All Stars part of this

ALL STAR NPC MEMBERS’ STORIES FOR THE FUTURE

[09:11] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Buffy!

[09:11] alebez: Woot!

[09:11] Buffy Beale: oh you silly Glitter lol

[09:11] Namaara MacMoragh: YaY Buffy!

[09:11] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you everyone for joining us today!

[09:12] Zinnia Zauber: We have some All Star NPC Members’ Stories for the Future

[09:12] Zinnia Zauber: I want to start with Ozma

[09:12] Buffy Beale: Cheering for Oz!

[09:12] Zinnia Zauber: Ozma can you join me up here please?

[09:12] Veri Oddfellow: Yay Oz!

[09:12] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, Ozma!

[09:13] Ozma Malibu: Am I still here? yes.

[09:13] Ozma Malibu: Gonna talk fast – lots of people I want to mention. If I crash, just know that I love you all. Glitter, I hope Marnie & all see the transcript and all the good things we are saying about TechSoup.

[09:13] Ozma Malibu: I work with Floaters.

What is Floaters?

[09:14] Ozma Malibu: Founded in 1994, Floaters is a technology outreach organization that seeks to extend technology to everyone, especially to those least likely to have such access. Floaters has worked primarily with people who have been homeless. 

Floaters Organization is located in Arizona, Mexico and “On the Road” (some of our members live in vehicles.)

[09:14] Ozma Malibu: Floaters isn’t just about the technology. The actual tech is only a small part of having access and using it. A program like this is also about envisioning pathways and empowering people to build their way to the life they want.

[09:14] Glitteractica Cookie: I will share this with Marnie, no prob

[09:14] Ozma Malibu: Floaters operates through participatory action research, where people get together and decide together on the goal. Everyone’s voice is equal, because everyone’s knowledge is equal.

[09:15] Ozma Malibu: How Did Floaters Arrive in Second Life?

Ozma came into being in 2006, my second attempt at getting into Second Life. (I will not go into the confusion of the first attempt.) In 2006, though, I had a flesh and blood mentor, someone who could guide me through and get me started.

[09:15] Ozma Malibu: It wasn’t long before, wandering about on Info Island, I found the TechSoup sign next to a stone circle of seats.

[09:15] Ozma Malibu: I knew that in Real Life, TechSoup was very good at organizing things, and that was exactly what I needed, someone to organize the chaos of Second Life. So I signed up immediately And that is how I met Glitteractica Cookie!

[09:16] Ozma Malibu: When the first island, Plush, was gifted to the NonProfit Commons, Floaters moved into our current location, Office 17.

[09:16] Glitteractica Cookie: 🙂

[09:16] Ozma Malibu: Office 17 became both a virtual Community Technology Center and a virtual gallery where we tried out ideas that we might use in a Real Life gallery someday.

[09:17] Ozma Malibu: And I am still pinching myself, because that’s exactly what happened. Floaters is now working with a 2-year timeline to renovate a house in an historic district in Mesa, Arizona, a little adobe home, and create a gallery there, helping to bring this little neighborhood back (there were 17 foreclosures on one 3-block street).

[09:17] Buffy Beale: YAYY!

[09:17] Ozma Malibu: The reason for the 2-year timeline is that in 2 years, the Phoenix light rail will reach downtown Mesa, Arizona, about two blocks from the planned gallery. We envision people taking the light rail downtown, and walking the two blocks to our little gallery and drinking iced tea and admiring the art.

[09:17] Ozma Malibu: AND So much of this is due to TechSoup and the Nonprofit Commons. I can’t imagine how this would have happened otherwise. We have gained so much confidence from the interesting projects that Office 17 has played host to.

[09:17] Ozma Malibu: A word about Networking in Second Life:

[09:18] Ozma Malibu: Everybody says it, and it’s true: networking opportunities are more useful, interesting, deeper, and fun in a virtual world than in a world of just email and text chat.

[09:18] Ozma Malibu: Floaters has collaborated with other nonprofits whose avatars Ozma met right here. Finding that a group of us worked on issues of homelessness, we got together and worked out plans for a project called Transitions that would provide a path upward for people in need of a “new life.” The project would require some funding to really take off, but we were able to run a pilot project, and we learned some interesting things and I think we can say that the people who participated did benefit from the project.

[09:18] Ozma Malibu: This bit is long but needs to be said. The story of the pilot was published as a article in the Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments. The editor for the project was Bluewave Ogee, a member of the Nonprofit Commons at the time, a lovely person who was already famous for having written the first all-digital dissertation. Her work relied on video, and there was really no other way to present her findings. Bluewave died a few years ago, but not before successfully piloting, on a large scale, the use of Second Life in higher education; and before she passed away, Texas received funding for every State institution of higher learning, and every course, to have access to a space in Second Life.

[09:18] Ozma Malibu: There are other people here today with whom I have worked for so long that I really trust them, and know them better than many people whom I have worked with in Real Life.

[09:19] Coughran Mayo: She was great!

[09:19] Gentle HeronGentle Heron misses Bluewave

[09:19] Ozma Malibu: I am so grateful to TechSoup who supported us, Glitteractica who made the community work through sheer force of will, and the volunteers who live here and built so much. I want to personally Zinnia, whose idea this celebration was, from the bottom of my heart — for all she has done, and for leading us through the summer. Yay Zinnia!

[09:19] Buffy Beale: me too 🙁

[09:19] Zinnia Zauber: It was Buffy’s idea!

[09:19] Buffy Beale: miss Bluewave but Yay to Z!

[09:19] Ozma Malibu: = Buffy sorry.

[09:20] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, Ozma! We have a wonderful team that could make Buffy’s idea become so sweet!

[09:20] Buffy Beale: it was a group idea 🙂

[09:20] Ozma Malibu: One more thing I beg you, please don’t let Zinnia burn out. She is so full of creative ideas, she is so willing to share, and I just don’t know what we would do without her “super hero” spirit. (Once, she made us all super hero capes.) Please, next time she or another mentor asks for help, jump in. If you’re like me, you may worry that you don’t have the skills to build cupcakes. But that’s OK. You learn. You’ll be mentored, for free, to learn the skills you need. Seriously, how could you ask for more?

[09:20] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you so much. Ozma!

[09:20] Coughran Mayo: Zinnia is the Always Star!

[09:21] Ozma Malibu: I am focusing on Zinnia here because she helped so much this summer, but truly, this applies to all the volunteers who are volunteering!

[09:21] Brena Benoir: Woohoo Zinnia!

[09:21] CarmenLittleFawn: ty Ozma

[09:21] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, C! Our Mentors are All Stars!

[09:21] Ozma Malibu: Whew!

[09:21] Ozma Malibu: that’s it thanks.

[09:21] Zinnia Zauber: Yay!

[09:21] Buffy Beale: Great job Oz!

[09:21] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you so much, Ozma! You are such a great spirit and force for good!

[09:22] Zinnia Zauber: I want to welcome Rik up here to share with us!

[09:22] Rik Panganiban: who’s that guy?

[09:22] Zinnia Zauber: Come on down!

[09:22] Rhiannon Chatnoir: lol

[09:22] Buffy Beale: whoohooo Rik is in the house!

[09:22] Rhiannon Chatnoir: wooo hooo

[09:22] Glitteractica Cookie: Woo+!

[09:22] Rik Panganiban: WOOT!!!!!

[09:22] Buffy Beale: welcome home Ric 🙂

[09:22] alebez: woooooo

[09:22] CarmenLittleFawn: yay Rik

[09:22] Glitteractica Cookie: I like that Oz said I made the community work thru ssheer force of will

[09:23] Chayenn: hello rik good to see u

[09:23] Glitteractica Cookie: RIK!!

[09:23] Gentle Heron: Good to see you again Rik.

[09:23] Rik Panganiban: morning friends!

[09:23] Rhiannon Chatnoir: try the blue or pink cupcake maybe?

[09:23] CarmenLittleFawn: you did Glitter she is right

[09:23] Glitteractica Cookie: heh

[09:23] Glitteractica Cookie: i am willful

[09:23] Rik Panganiban: sending virtual hugs all around

[09:23] CarmenLittleFawn: u have to be to do all this

[09:23] Rik Panganiban: It’s been too long since I’ve been here and I’ve missed you all

[09:23] Glitteractica Cookie: 🙂

[09:24] Rhiannon Chatnoir: aww

[09:24] CarmenLittleFawn: nice to see u again Rik

[09:24] Rik Panganiban: Can I start by saying that I love what you’ve done with the place?

[09:24] Rik Panganiban: 😉

[09:24] Zinnia Zauber: Thanks, Rik!

[09:24] Rik Panganiban: I’m getting a tooth ache just sitting here

[09:24] Buffy Beale: lol!

[09:24] CarmenLittleFawn: hehehe

[09:25] Rik Panganiban: Seriously, the place could use a bit of color, so I see Zinnia’s influence and I like it!

[09:25] Zinnia Zauber: 😉

[09:25] Zinnia Zauber: That’s my job!

[09:26] CarmenLittleFawn: 🙂

[09:26] Rik Panganiban: Anyway, congrats to you all for what you have buildt together over the past 1825 days in the virtual world

[09:27] Rik Panganiban: It’s a testament to the vision of TechSoup, Glitter and the hundreds of others who have come and put their energy, time and exertise into this place

[09:27] Rik Panganiban: And I count myself lucky that I got to play some part in that as your community manager

[09:28] Buffy Beale: you did a great job for us Rik

[09:28] Glitteractica Cookie: indeed

[09:28] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes – amazing job Rik

[09:28] Rik Panganiban: Currently I’m pretty far from the virtual world as a technology educator at the California Academy of Sciences in SF.

[09:28] Rik Panganiban: But its never very far from my thoughts.

[09:28] Gentle Heron: Gotta educate those profs about virtual worlds, Rik.

[09:29] Rik Panganiban: My goal is to help teens to explore their science interests and telling compelling stories using technology.

[09:29] CarmenLittleFawn: that is great Rik

[09:30] Rik Panganiban: And from a larger perspective, I think there is a great challenge in creating online spaces where kids can learn about the world, science, sustainability and themselves in a safe and engaging way.

[09:30] Panny BakerlyPanny Bakerly looking at Rik’s charleston pics

[09:30] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great focus – maybe you can come back sometime and speak/update us on that more Rik 🙂

[09:30] Zinnia Zauber: We will have to all work together for sure!

[09:31] CarmenLittleFawn: nods

[09:31] Rik Panganiban: And right now there are a lot of great digital tools that we are looking at, from 3D modeling software, virtual environments like the Blu, and collaborative game spaces like Minecraft.

[09:31] Rik Panganiban: And it looks like Linden Lab is expanding their offerings to other creative apps and spaces as well.

[09:31] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes

[09:31] Glitteractica Cookie: we should have them come and talk to us about them

[09:32] CarmenLittleFawn: mmhmm

[09:32] Rik Panganiban: So the challenge for us is how to use the right tools to bring the right content to this next generation of leaders, scientists, and citizens.

[09:32] Rik Panganiban: We’re still figuring that out for ourselves at the academy.

[09:33] Rik Panganiban: So we look to places like the NPC as a great forum for smart people to help us find some answers

[09:33] Gentle Heron: The right answer is: “There is no one right answer.”

[09:33] Rik Panganiban: better answers

[09:34] Rik Panganiban: So my time here is limited, but I wanted to give you some idea of what my current challenges and projects are.

[09:34] Zinnia Zauber: That is wonderful, Rik!

[09:34] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great and thanks Rik 🙂

[09:35] Zinnia Zauber: We know that we will be connecting more and thankful that you could share with us!

[09:35] Buffy Beale: thanks Rik glad to hear life is treating you well

[09:35] Rik Panganiban: I’m super excited to hear about all the great stuff that is happening here

[09:35] CarmenLittleFawn: yes it is Rik and best to you on your project

[09:35] Rik Panganiban: And hopefully I will have more to share in the future that might be relevant for the NPC community.

[09:35] Zinnia Zauber: Yay!

[09:35] Rik Panganiban: you all rock!

[09:35] Rik Panganiban: WOOT!!!!!

[09:35] Zinnia Zauber: As do you, Rik!

[09:35] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you very much!

[09:35] CarmenLittleFawn: claps

[09:36] Buffy Beale: Cheering!!

[09:36] Zinnia Zauber: Now, I would like to have another All Star join us up here! Coughran!

[09:36] Glitteractica Cookie: W00=!

[09:36] Zinnia Zauber: Please come on down!

[09:36] CarmenLittleFawn: claps

[09:36] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, C!

[09:36] Buffy Beale: Yayyyyy C! You are the rock of the NPC!

[09:36] Glitteractica Cookie: woo+

[09:36] Coughran Mayo: Like my outfit?

[09:36] Zinnia Zauber: You know I do!

[09:37] Zinnia Zauber: How about mine?

[09:37] Coughran Mayo: Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking….

[09:37] Brena Benoir: lol

[09:37] Buffy Beale: lol

[09:37] Gentle HeronGentle Heron sends Coughran hugs, but tries not to trap his typing hands.

[09:37] Coughran Mayo: I’m happy to be able to be here today to share with you some of my history with the NonProfit Commons in Second Life.

[09:37] Coughran Mayo: I’m not sure what the “all star” designation that was given to me (and some others) in regards to this meeting, I suspect it’s a lot like other things in my life – if you stick around long enough, sooner or later you get credit for something, whether you deserve it or not. Or else you get blamed!

[09:37] Coughran Mayo: It is certainly true that I have some longevity with the NPC, although I hasten to mention that there were already people in SL, working hard on the founding of the organization, by the time I showed up in February of 2007. At the time, SL was about 3 and a half years old, and it was already a busy place – although certainly not on the scale of today.

Today, when you log in, you will usually see somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 concurrent users. Back when I first discovered it, Second Life usually had about 13,000 users on at any given time.

[09:38] Buffy Beale: lol C you deserve the credit

[09:38] Coughran Mayo: One of the first things I did when I got logged into SL in 2007 (once I figured out how to score a few Linden dollars so I could upgrade my beginner avatar) was to use the internal search function to look for things that interested me. I searched for “addiction”, “counseling”, “therapy” and the like. One hit I got from a search for “nonprofits” was to a kiosk – I think it was on one of the Info Islands – that announced the formation of the NonProfit Commons. Beyond the obvious reference to NPC, I also saw that TechSoup was the organizer of this new collaboration group. I was already familiar with TechSoup, as my non-profit had benefited several times from their software donation program.

[09:38] Coughran Mayo: Those of you who are not familiar with this program, if your non-profit ever buys software, really owe it to yourselves to check it out. Just go to http://www.techsoup.org/stock/howtousetechsoup.asp and you will see how you can get some massively discounted deals on most of the useful software programs a non-profit might need.

[09:39] Coughran Mayo: Anyway, following up on the in-world notice about NPC, I first met Glitteractica Cookie, who explained to me what the project was all about, and after taking care of all of the details – providing evidence of my employer’s non-profit status (I worked at Preferred Family Healthcare at the time) and filling out the application, I was given one of the very early spaces here on Plush Non-Profit Commons, which was the only sim that NPC had at that time. I believe that our first office was Number 03. Later we moved into the inner circle, where the TechSoup office is now.

[09:39] Coughran Mayo: At the beginning, there were only a handful of offices filled up, but over the next several months NPC was filled in with a diverse slate of nonprofits, including many who are still involved: RoSa, Boomer Esiason Foundation, Bridges for Women, Great Strides, Giving Circles Network, and Garden for the Missing, just to name a few. I was able to learn from all of these new colleagues, people I would never have met in real life.

[09:40] Coughran Mayo: I still have some photographs from the dedication ceremony for Plush, where I was asked to be a speaker, and also serve as “security” 

[09:40] Coughran Mayo: Over time, NPC continued to grow and add members and when Aloft NPC opened, I asked for a space there in order to create Wharf Ratz, where we have been having our Tuesday Night Extraordinary Dance Extravaganza each week for about four years now. A lot of you may not know this, but the reason for the name of Aloft comes from the original tenant/owner of the property, Starwood Hotels. They were testing the concept of a new, businessperson-focused hotel, to be call Aloft, and set up a demo version of their hotel on the parcel, soliciting comments and suggestions from SL visitors. Some of the ideas people sent them were incorporated into the final design of the Aloft chain, which now has nearly 500 locations around the world. If you look at the Wikipedia entry for Aloft, there is a mention of the Second Life project. When Starwood was finished with their project, they had a contest to give away the sim to a nonprofit, and the winner was one of the NPC members, which led to Aloft becoming the second Sim on the NP

[09:40] Coughran Mayo: C “archipelago”

[09:41] Coughran Mayo: Following an initial attempt to use SL as a way to “recruit” clients who needed the behavioral health counseling services that Preferred Family Healthcare offered – after all, among 14,000 concurrent users we could statistically expect to find 700 or 800 people with alcoholism or addiction problems – we decided at PFH that a better use for the virtual world technology was to maintain connectedness with our “real world” clients who had accessibility challenges. A series of events, both planned and unexpected, led us to getting an initial project funded through a grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health, and over the next three years we were able to win around 3 million US dollars in grant funding from various sources to try using virtual world based counseling for different user groups. Today, virtual counseling is a significant part of Preferred Family Healthcare’s product line. Clearly our NPC involvement played a big part in that happening.

[09:42] Coughran Mayo: In November of 2011, I left PFH to start my own consulting firm, Innovaision LLC. Although I do work with nonprofits on strategic planning, grantwriting, and innovative problem solving, the main focus of my work is building virtual environments for counseling and teaching purposes, and training agencies to use these environments to advance their mission. After nearly one year, Innovaision is quite successful, and I can truthfully say that a significant foundation for this success derives from my initial visit to Second Life, and the inclusion in the NonProfit Commons project over the past five years!

[09:42] Glitteractica Cookie: great story

[09:42] CarmenLittleFawn: yes 🙂

[09:43] Coughran Mayo: And, although I have left PFH, I ‘m happy that Brena Benoir is still here representing PFH at NPC, she has great ideas and boundless energy!

[09:43] Brena Benoir: Thank you C!

[09:43] Coughran Mayo: Beyond the history and success I have noted, I would also want to say that NPC involvement has, importantly, introduced me to many clever and thoughtful people, many of whom have become true friends over time. One of the pleasures I have had in developing these friendships has been meeting a lot of you in person during my travels. Those of you who haven’t see the “Wall of Fame/Shame” at Wharf Ratz should come by sometime and see the many photos I have taken with myself and my real life Second Life friends. I always remember that there are real people behind each avatar in SL, and in my experience, most of those people are really fantastic!

[09:43] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Wall of Fame!

[09:44] Coughran Mayo: the rest are just “sorta fantastic”

[09:44] Biji Mornington: heh

[09:44] Coughran Mayo: I’m looking forward to continuing to collaborate with others in the nonprofit world in Second Life, and the ongoing success of NPC. 

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk with you today. Here’s to five more years!

[09:44] Glitteractica Cookie: Tanks for all you do, coughran

[09:44] Rhiannon Chatnoir Rhiannon Chatnoir has hugged Coughran in RL

[09:44] Gentle HeronGentle Heron cheers

[09:44] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you Coughran!

[09:44] CarmenLittleFawn: claps

[09:44] Coughran Mayo: 🙂

[09:44] Biji Mornington: Yay Coughran!

[09:44] Tank Thibedeau: woooo tah

[09:44] Namaara MacMoragh: Yay Coughran!

[09:44] Zinnia Zauber: You are amazing, man!

[09:45] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you all for speaking about NPC!

[09:45] Zotarah Shepherd: Yay

[09:45] Buffy Beale: Cheering!!!

NONPROFIT COMMONS ALL STAR AWARDS

[09:45] Zinnia Zauber: I want to have Brena join us up here please!

[09:45] Ozma Malibu: Yay Brena!

[09:45] Zinnia Zauber: We have been inspired by so many of you!

[09:46] CarmenLittleFawn: claps

[09:46] Gentle Heron: Go Brena!

[09:46] Brena Benoir: Good Morning NPC!

[09:46] Chayenn: good morning Brena

[09:46] CarmenLittleFawn: 🙂

[09:46] Brena Benoir: I have had the privilege of working with many people on various events throughout my involvement here at NPC

[09:46] Buffy Beale: Cheering for Brena!!!

[09:47] Brena Benoir: The amount of energy, time, dedication, and immersion that goes in to planning events for the community takes a massive amount of work.

[09:48] Brena Benoir: Often times there is a lot of background work going on to make these things happen

[09:48] Brena Benoir: There are a core that seem to volunteer each and every time

[09:48] Brena Benoir: Without those people, we could not make these events happen

[09:49] Ozma Malibu: You are one of them, Brena

[09:49] Brena Benoir: With that being said, I would like to recognize some people who made this event happen today for us.

[09:49] Brena Benoir: Thank you Ozma

[09:50] Coughran Mayo: Yay, Ozma

[09:50] Brena Benoir: First off, I would like to recognize Zinnia. She has spent countless hours trying to coordinate details, makign textures, getting materials, etc. Without her involvement this event would not have been possible

[09:50] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, Brena! 🙂

[09:50] Zotarah Shepherd: Yay Zinnia!

[09:50] Ozma Malibu: Zinnia!!!

[09:50] Biji Mornington: Woo hooo Zinnia!

[09:51] CarmenLittleFawn: YaY YaY

[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: I am honored to have such a professional team!

[09:51] Brena Benoir: It is with truly heartfelt appreciation for your dedication to this community that I present these flowers to you as a show of appreciation for everything you are as a person and what you give to this community

[09:51] Brena Benoir: Thank you Zinnia!

[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you!!!

[09:51] Ozma Malibu: Hurray!!!

[09:51] Tank Thibedeau: WOOOO TAH ZInnia !!!!!! claps claps

[09:51] Par: Yay, Z

[09:52] Veri Oddfellow: Huzzah!

[09:52] Chayenn: wonderful

[09:52] Glitteractica Cookie: Yay Z

[09:52] Buffy Beale: Yeehaaa Z you’re a rocker!

[09:52] CarmenLittleFawn: Whooot Whooot

[09:52] Zinnia Zauber: *blush*

[09:52] Buffy Beale: bright fuschia I hope

[09:52] Brena Benoir: Our community landscaper, builder, all around fixer-upper, Mr. Parhelion Palou

[09:52] Chayenn: bravo zinnia

[09:52] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Par!

[09:52] Buffy Beale: Wooot Par!!

[09:53] CarmenLittleFawn: YaY Par

[09:53] Namaara MacMoragh: yay Zinnia!

[09:53] Par: I didn’t volunteer … everyone else took one step back

[09:53] Ronnie Rhode: Yay Brena, Zin and Par!

[09:53] Brena Benoir: I truly appreciate you sacrifice of sleep on many occasions to make things happen for the events in this community

[09:53] Ozma Malibu: And you never know what to expect from Par! Yay Par!

[09:53] Buffy Beale: Mr behind-the-scenes master builder here

[09:53] Rhiannon Chatnoir: great

[09:53] Coughran Mayo: Par is awesome

[09:53] Coughran Mayo: total volunteer!!!

[09:53] Chayenn: yes he is

[09:53] Biji Mornington: Yay Par!

[09:53] Rhiannon Chatnoir: congratulations to you all and thanks so much for all of your efforts

[09:53] Buffy Beale: and ace flyer!

[09:53] Rhiannon Chatnoir: we are going to have to wrap things up for the meeting

[09:53] Ozma Malibu: Yes, yay Brena, Zinnia and Par!

[09:54] Brena Benoir: There is no way to recognize each person that has contributed to every event since I hav ebeen here in the NPC, however I know that there are the handful of people that keep coming back to make events happen for this community and I am proud to be part of that team.

[09:54] Brena Benoir: Thank you

[09:54] Namaara MacMoragh: I just want to thank everyone who contributes to the richness of NPC.

[09:54] Gentle Heron: Sincere thanks to Brena, Zinnia, Par, and all the folks in NPC who do the work here.

[09:54] Rhiannon Chatnoir: but thanks again to everyone who spoke, helped set up and organized today’s celebration!

[09:54] Chayenn: bravo brena

[09:55] Zinnia Zauber: Brena makes so much happen here and we are thankful for her work!

[09:55] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you all for being All Stars in our community!

[09:55] CarmenLittleFawn: ty Brena

[09:55] Rhiannon Chatnoir: Zinnia if you want to paste in the rest of today’s celebration agenda

[09:55] Glitteractica Cookie: thanks all.. I unfortuantely need to jump out for another mtg at 10

[09:55] Zinnia Zauber: Without you, we wouldn’t be a community!

[09:55] CarmenLittleFawn: bye Glitter tc

[09:55] Glitteractica Cookie: just wanted to say THANK YOU for all you have done in the past 5 years

[09:55] Zinnia Zauber: 3:30 – 5:00 PM SLT

DJ DyVerse Dance Party Meet and Greet at CommonGround Aloft Nonprofit Commons. Enjoy networking and dancing among other nonprofits and supporters!

[09:56] Zinnia Zauber: Learn more about what nonprofits, educators, humanitarians, scientists, and artists accomplish in Second Life at the Nonprofit Commons at this fun and informative event.

Aloft Nonprofit Commons (59,68,25)

[09:56] Buffy Beale: thanks Glitter it’s been a delightful experience for me and for Bridges for Women

[09:56] Glitteractica Cookie: You all have changed my life

[09:56] Pathfinder Lester: congrats everyone. very inspiring to hear everyone’s experiences here.

[09:56] Rhiannon Chatnoir: aww thanks Glitter!

[09:56] Glitteractica Cookie: seriously

[09:56] Buffy Beale: wow Glitter mine too

[09:56] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, Glitter!

[09:56] Zinnia Zauber: You changed ours!

[09:56] Buffy Beale: great to see you here Path!

[09:56] Zinnia Zauber: 8:30 – 10:30 PM SLT

Active Collaborative Community Planning Workshop to create solutions for all our unify goals for the Virtual Vision 2020 – an initiative to develop a plan for the Second Life community at Plush Nonprofit,

[09:56] Buffy Beale: yours was the first avatar to scare me 🙂

[09:56] Rhiannon Chatnoir: we all are so appreciative of this amazing space and community that you were the catalyst of.. hugs all around to Glitter!

[09:56] Zinnia Zauber: All Second Life Communities are welcome to participate in building partnerships and solutions. http://www.virtualvision2020.com

Plush Nonprofit Commons (88,126,26)

[09:57] Buffy Beale: but turns out you’re a teddy bear 🙂

[09:57] Zinnia Zauber: Please join us for all these events!

[09:57] Glitteractica Cookie: And you all have no idea how many times i endured the chucking about the silly avatars, etc, and then proved them wrong when they saw this community’s reach and affect

[09:57] Buffy Beale: ohh I can imagine Glitter lol

[09:57] CarmenLittleFawn: nods

[09:57] Rhiannon Chatnoir: thank you for that Glitter

[09:58] Glitteractica Cookie: That’s why I can still have the suport from the leadership team to do this program… b/c of all you do

[09:58] Glitteractica Cookie: ok, with that… ciao for now

[09:58] alebez: thank you everyone. this community is amazing. i have to take off as well.

[09:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: take care Glitter and thanks..

[09:58] Panny Bakerly: ty Glitter

[09:58] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you and take care!

[09:58] Zotarah Shepherd: Thank you Glitter and all wonderful NPC folk!

[09:58] CarmenLittleFawn: bye alebez, bye Glitter

[09:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: going to close things out here for today’s meeting.. enjoy the events for the rest of the day

[09:58] Jane Birdsong: Thanks all.

[09:58] Glitteractica Cookie: My wonderful community coordiantor, Ale, is the glue that keeps my crazy plans together, so she needs to go project manage our next mtg!

[09:59] Zinnia Zauber: Please join us for the group hug in the back

[09:59] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Ale!

[09:59] Rhiannon Chatnoir: feel free to sneak in any announcements to get put into the transcript

[09:59] Buffy Beale: you go ale!

[09:59] Biji Mornington: Congratulations to all who have contributed to the success of NPC! Gotta run.

[09:59] CarmenLittleFawn: hugs

[09:59] Buffy Beale: ohh yeah the group hug 🙂

[09:59] Pathfinder Lester: take care folks. i have to run.

[09:59] Rhiannon ChatnoirRhiannon Chatnoir hugs

[09:59] HB Eternal: Oooo we like group hugs!

[09:59] Rhiannon Chatnoir: And again, here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life: 

• Nonprofit Commons Blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org
• Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/npsl
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitcommons
• Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life
• Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh
• http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

About TechSoup the sponsors of the Nonprofit Commons:

• http://www.techsoup.org/stock/howtousetechsoup.asp
• http://flavors.me/techsoup

Thanks everyone and see you next week!

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir

Friday September 21 at the Nonprofit Commons (NPC) on Plush and Aloft with events throughout the day and festive formal dress encouraged!

The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is a community of social benefit organizations managed by a community of volunteers and sponsored by the nonprofit organization TechSoup Global.

http://www.nonprofitcommons.org

5th Anniversary Celebration Events happen at 8:30 AM, 3:30 PM, 8:30 PM, and 3:30 AM. Please see details below:

8:30 – 10:00 AM SLT

Morning Nonprofit Commons Meeting including NPC History, Awards, and All Star NPC Members Coughran Mayo, Jacques Macaire and much more at Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater.

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26

Meeting Agenda

• 8:30 AM Introductions
• 8:40 AM TechSoup Announcements
• 8:45 AM Nonprofit Commons History
• 9:00 AM All Star NPC Members’ Stories for the Future
• 9:30 AM Nonprofit Commons All Star Awards
• 9:45 AM Open Mic / Announcements

3:30 – 5:00 PM SLT

DJ DyVerse Dance Party Meet and Greet at CommonGround Aloft Nonprofit Commons. Enjoy networking and dancing among other nonprofits and supporters! Learn more about what nonprofits, educators, humanitarians, scientists, and artists accomplish in Second Life at the Nonprofit Commons at this fun and informative event.

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aloft%20Nonprofit%20Commons/59/68/25

8:30 – 10:30 PM SLT

Active Collaborative Community Planning Workshop to create solutions for all our unify goals for the Virtual Vision 2020 – an initiative to develop a plan for the Second Life community at Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater. All Second Life Communities are welcome to participate in building partnerships and solutions.

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26

Workshop Agenda

• 8:30 PM Introductions
• 8:40 PM Explanation of Community Planning and Virtual Vision 2020 Purpose
• 8:50 PM Breakout groups discussion of goals and identification of who might help achieve goal
• 9:20 PM Presentation of breakout group solutions and strategies
• 9:40 PM Build partnerships to lead by example

3:30 – 4:30 AM SLT

Live Music Meet and Greet at CommonGround Aloft Nonprofit Commons.

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aloft%20Nonprofit%20Commons/59/68/25

Please Come Join the Nonprofit All Stars!

Written by: Rhiannon Chatnoir