Using Second Life to Collaborate and Connect May 13, 2010 Sponsored by Audio is only available by calling this number: Conference Call: 866-740-1260; Access Code: 6339392

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Using Second Life to Collaborate and Connect Sponsored by Presenters: Susan Tenby, Renne Brock-Richmond, Jessica Dally

Today’s Speakers Susan Tenby Renne Brock-Richmond Jessica Dally Facilitating: Kami Griffiths, TechSoup Assisting with chat questions: Becky Wiegand & Megan Keane, TechSoup Evonne Heyning & Layal Rabat in Second Life

Agenda Overview of Second Life Benefits Integrate with social media tools Get started Examples Technical requirements Nonprofit Commons Future plans Q&A Key points: NOT a technology session: focus on process 6

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life

Virtual Work for Real World Missions Our goal is to create a learning community of practice for nonprofits to explore and learn about the virtual world, and to investigate the many ways in which nonprofits can utilize this unique environment. Key points: NOT a technology session: focus on process 8

Second Life Stats Second Life 40% of all logins are US. 60% are International Total monthly user hours: 39,666,304 Totally monthly logged in Residents (as of 1/31/2010): 1,067,114 Nonprofit Commons in Second Life 18,967 unique visitors to Aloft and Plush averaging 60 – 90 mins respectively per visit. 44% of visitors to Aloft are non-US residents with 25% of them coming from Australia. Visitors are averaging around 2000 per month to the nonprofit commons blog and are coming from 70 different countries. Virtual Haiti raised $7000 US Dollars for Haiti relief in Second Life

Supporting Real Life issues in a virtual world

Cross Platform Events-Webinars

Community Voice Mail

RoSa Documentation Centre: Library and Archives on Feminism, Equal Opportunities and Women's Studies

Sierra Club

Technical Requirements Basic account is free Costs virtually nothing to build a location in Second Life Free office space to social benefit organizations on Nonprofit Commons Can be bandwidth intensive

System Requirements DSL or Cable internet connection Newer computer Mac OS X 10.4.11 or better Windows XP, or Vista modern 32-bit Linux environment http://secondlife.com/support/system-requirements/

Nonprofit Commons Offers Free virtual office space to social benefit organizations Nonprofit advisory services, workshops, and weekly nonprofit networking sessions Educational and fundraising events Learning Guides and Mentorship for New members

Wide International Reach Weekly meetings bring 40 avatars on average from around the globe Last year, nearly 19,000 unique avatar visitors to Nonprofit Commons from 30 different countries, spending an average of 60-90 minutes per visit 389 Google Group members

Looking Forward...

Serious and Social Gaming Bridge gaming and virtual worlds to create mission-centric, social impact games. NPC Games Google Group NYC Brainstorming MeetUp May 23rd

Growing the EcoCommons

Partnering for Health (Commons) Partnering with health organizations to further health-sector specific programs

More Mixed Reality Events Multi-platform events Audio/video streaming Many ways to participate Weekly webinar broadcasts into Second Life Streaming Monthly Online Community MeetUps

Key Links NonprofitCommons.org http://www.nonprofitcommons.org Nonprofits in Second Life Wiki http://npsl.wiki.techsoup.org/ Email: nonprofitcommons@techsoup.org Twitter: @npsl

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