Author

Susan Tenby
Position
Focus
Organization
Member Type
Cool Associations
Cool Events
Website URL
http://nonprofitcommons.org
Author Biography
Susan Tenby is the TechSoup Community Manager, where she is responsible for the promotion, management and direction of the TS community forums, with an audience of 100,000 unique visitors a month. She recently launched a community of over 400 nonprofit staff members and volunteers in Second Life. This community has a shared community blog at Click to Open Web Page and a wiki about nonprofit activities in SL. They have a shared community tagging project using the tag “NPSL” (Nonprofits in Second Life) on sites such as del.icio.us, Technorati and Flickr, weekly in-world meetings, every Friday from 8:30-9:30am PST to teach scripting and best-practices to nonprofits in SL.

She launched a sim in Second Life called The Nonprofit Commons, with the NPSL community, on land and buildings, all donated by Anshe Chung Studios. This nonprofits-only sim houses 40 organizations, free of charge, to lower the barrier of access to the virtual world.

She runs monthly online community meet-ups in San Francisco. She speaks at conferences (in June, she organized a panel on Nonprofits in Second Life at Games for Change on Virtual Activism and presented on Using Second Life an innovative marketing tool at Supernova2007.) In August, she spoke at SLCC and in October, she presented at Faster Cures and Using Second Life for Social Work. She also writes on the topic of online community building in its various forms.

Articles

    Facebook finally goes to SecondLife
    After the Virtual Worlds conference, the universal mantra seemed to be "we need interoperability!" Well, guess what folks? It has started.
    Monday, November 26, 2007. 02:44PM 222 Views 0 Comments

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