# Charity web forum in Second Life on Friday

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/05/29/charity-web-forum-second-life-friday/
- Published: 2007-05-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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.