Charity web forum in Second Life on Friday
Howard Lake | 29 May 2007 | News
Members of the charitywebforum discussion group will be meeting for the first time in Second Life on Friday to learn how the 3D digital virtual world can be used effectively by charities.
The conference will be held on Friday 1 June 2007 starting at 13.00 (UK time). It starts at Audio SIM in Second Life.
Before you can take part you need to set up a free Second Life account. Newcomers to the world have to go through a basic training/induction session in order to advance to the main world. This process should take no longer than an hour, but you must do it in advance to take part in the conference.
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The organisers of the event are Pauline Woolley at Oxmust (Oxford Multimedia Strategies) whose Second Life name is “Polly Widdershins” and Chris Hambly, whose Second Life name is “audio Zenith”.
Planned activites are:
* 13:00 An orientation session
* 13:30 Second Life: The FAQs. Demonstration through questions and answers of some of the basics of Second Life
* 14:00 Chris Hambly – audio presentation on how Second Life can raise charity awareness
* 14:30 Fundraising in Second Life: Looking at raising funds within Second Life for real life projects. Speakers include Alvargi Daniels and Pauline Woolley.
* 15:00 Raising Awareness in Second Life: A sightseeing trip to Camp Darfur, a multimedia presentation within Second Life, and Ubuntu, a sim designed to raise awareness and support micro-projects. Hosted by Riversong Garden and Sue Stonebinder.
* 16:00 Developing communities and projects in Second Life: A brainstorming session
* 16:30 Using Tools to Develop Second Life: A demonstration of practical web tools that can be used in Second Life – Desideria Stockton
* 17:00 Final discussion
Second Life has over 6.8 million residents, 1.7 million of who have logged in in the past 60 days. According to its creators Linden Labs over $1.544 million has been spent (or donated?) there in the past 24 hours.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.