Halloween at Common Ground

We had a wonderful Nonprofit Commons Halloween Party at Common Ground! Fab Boo costumes, friends, and awesome tunes spun by DJ LilTank! I continued my disco theme for costumes in Second Life by creating "Shining Star" to remind everyone that are one no matter who they are! ArminasX made my custom particle Nova to match my dress! You just can't have enough orange on Halloween!

2009 Second Life Community Convention

I attended the 2009 Second Life Community Convention and was honored to meet the people I have been working with in Second Life, as well as, be introduced to several new friends. I taught a workshop called Inspire Engagement through Appearance and Branding and was on a panel called Common Good - Common Goals - Common Ground - Effective Immersive Social Networking with Coughran and Ethelred. I enjoyed helping out with the other Nonprofit Track events like Transitions: A Place for Dreams - Case Study of Collaboration and Networking in Virtual Worlds with Ozma, InK, and Buffy. So many wonderful volunteers made this a successful and effective event. Thank you all! http://slconvention.ning.com/

Second Life 6 Birthday Exhibit for NPC

Thanks to the help of some friends and several orgs, I built the exhibit for the Nonprofit Commons for the SL6B. It is about the future of immersive social networking effectively connects people and creates cooperative support by generating Common Good with Common Goals meeting on Common Ground at the Nonprofit Commons by encouraging participation, promotion, and positive results.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SL6B%20Titan/139/207/23

Golden at Common Ground

With a Gold color theme, Common Ground @ NPC Plush was sponsored by Virtual Ability. Ricken Flow shared their mission ito enable people with a wide range of disabilities to enter into virtual worlds like Second Life®, and provide them with a supporting environment once there. He provided wheelchairs and dances for the "wheelies". It was a great night full of angels, supporters, and snow!

FirstSale

Wow! Par let me put a piece of my artwork in the NPC Crooked House which houses Gallerie Semigloss along with several talented folks of the Nonprofit Commons. And, I had my first sale in Second Life this week to FirstBook Zimer. FirstBook is the rep for the nonprofit org First Book with the mission to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. You can visit FirstBook's office at NPC and learn even more about this wonderful org. Thank you FirstBook!

Grayscale - Common Ground @ NPC

The color for this week's theme was Grayscale for the Common Ground Party. Buffy blews us away with her awesome grayscale ball that she could even dance it!
Thank you everyone for attending the parties and dressing with the color themes! To display unity, we have a different color theme every week. Here are the upcoming color themes for 2008: Sept 4 – Black, Sept 11 – White, Sept 18 – Green, Sept 25 – Teal, Oct 2 – Blue, Oct 9 – Purple, Oct 16 – Violet, Oct 23 – Magenta, Oct 30 – Red, Nov 6 – Orange, Nov 13 – Yellow, Nov 20 – Gold, Nov 27 – Brown, Dec 4 – Midnight, Dec 11 – Sunrise, Dec 18 – Midday, Dec 25 – Sunset. You don’t have to dress up, but it is fun to!

Virtual Ability Island

After the NPC Friday meeting, we got a tour of the new Virtual Ability Island. Their mission is to enable people with a wide range of disabilities to enter into virtual worlds like Second Life, and provide them with a supporting environment once there. It is an amazing build and very impressive instructions for those new to Second Life. It was a delight and inspiring!

Black and White - Common Ground @ NPC

I was so pleased with our practice run of Common Ground @ Plush NPC! Our color theme was black and white and Ricken Flow was our DJ for the night. He spun awesome disco and 80’s new wave tunes for us, while taking IM requests too. We planned for an hour of merriment, but it lasted two ending with a special request of “Moondance” for Ronnie. I decided that the next few Common Ground @ NPC events are going to stay desaturated (void of color – the horror!) like the beginning and end of Wizard of Oz until our grand opening on Sept 18. Then our first color will be green sans scary flying monkeys.

Common Ground @ NPC

Looking over the party set up. Planning and launching a new networking event at Plush Nonprofit Commons has been rewarding and a great learning experience. Several people have been super helpful in the building of the “Party Plaza”, getting the word out, and preparing the music stream. We intend to host this event every Thursday night at 7 PM SLT with a different color theme each week. Our grand opening is September 18 and we have been practicing each week to iron out the kinks. Come dancing!

Wharf Ratz

Every Tuesday Night at 8 PM SLT, Coughran hosts the Wharf Ratz Party at Preferred Family Healthcare on Aloft Nonprofit Commons. Much dancing and dialog happen between people who support all kinds of nonprofit orgs, as well as, guests who are interested in good deeds. This past week, Coughran passed out trampolines for us to bounce on after I described the springboard action of the McMenamins' Crystal Ballroom in Portland. Wheee! While being tossed in the air, I had flashbacks of the documentary I did about the McMenamins' Brew Pubs. Good times and free stout to boot!

NPC Awareness

Last night was a party for create awareness about all the great nonprofic groups working in SL at NonProfit Commons Aloft (NPC2). Live music, dancing, and insight about the amazing work people are doing inworld for the real world. We had an after party too where we danced on the clouds to avoid the falling buses. lol http://slurl.com/secondlife/aloft%20nonprofit%20commons/100/68/25

Common Ground

Today was the first time I was on the NonProfit Commons (NCP) Friday Morning Meeting Agenda! Woo! Ethelred and I invited everyone to join us to create a new networking event called Common Ground. More details to come!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/183/125/23