ACHUB Presents
Charity Web Forum Conference - SecondLife
When?
Friday June 1 07
Starting 13:00 pm BST (uk time)
Where?
Starting at Audio SIM in Secondlife
Read the Logs here!
Session 1 - In the Hub
Session 2: Expoloring Camp Darfur, Ubuntu and back to the Hub
Organisers / Event Planners
- Pauline Woolley - Oxford University
- Chris Hambly - SL: audio Zenith
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Registrants
- Chris Hambly chambly AT gmail
- Pauline Woolley pauline.woolley AT oxmust.co.uk
Planned activites: times are UK (BST)
Chris Hambly from
Audana discusses how charities can benefit from using an immersive environment such as Second Life.
- 14:30 Fundraising in Second Life:
Looking at raising funds within Second Life for real life projects
Speakers include Alvargi Daniels and Polly Widdershins
- 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 Stonebender
- 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 - Desderia Stockton
- 17:00 Final discussion
Speakers' Notes
Alvargi Daniels
Alvargi owns an island estate in Second Life and hosts a quarterly event that displays and auctions the work of artists in Second Life to benefit charity. The last event, for St. Jude Children's Hospital Research in Memphis, Tennessee, raised over one million in SL currency (~$4,500 US). In rl he is a software engineering executive at a Fortune 50 company and specializes in developing new technologies and products for nascent markets.
Polly Widdershins (Pauline Woolley in rl)
Polly is one of the moderators of the CharityWebForum (the online Yahoo Group for UK Web Managers and IT developers working in the charity sector). She is currently part of the team working to develop the University of Oxford's presence within Second Life. In addition, she is the editor of Second Life's first magazine for Homes and Gardens. Polly has spoken on Second Life to staff and students at Oxford Univerity and will be speaking at the nfpSynergy Internet Seminar for Charities on May 31st.
Chris Hambly (audio Zenith in RL)
Chris is founder of the ACHUB, the hosts for this event, as well as being CEO of Audana, a development company creating new-media marketing solutions for clients within SL, as well building virtual communities, and brand buzzing with web2.0 tools. Chris also runs Audiocourses.com Ltd a Uk based distance learning company. Full details about Chris can be found on his LinkedIn page.
Riversong Garden
Owner/Curator of Better World Island, a sim in Second Life devoted to raising awareness of social causes, home to; non-profits, environmental awareness groups, awareness exhibits including Camp Darfur, and various projects that seek to make our world a better one. Riversong also runs several businesses in Second Life and is a member of Ubuntu. In RL she is an active member of the Omidyar Network, and the co-founder of Partners For Others, sponsor of Better World Island and a non-profit which has shipped over a million pounds of aid to the South Pacific, Southern Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
Charity Representatives
Chat History
Session 1
Session 2
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