Susan Tenby

Current

• Senior Manager, Online Community Development at TechSoup

Past

• Senior COmmunity Manager, TechSoup Network at Nonprofit Commons and TechSoup

Education

• San Francisco State University
• University of San Francisco

Recommended

2 people have recommended Susan

Connections

246 connections

Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Susan Tenby’s Summary

*TechSoup Community Manager, where I am responsible for the promotion, management and direction of the TS community forums, with an audience of 100,000 unique visitors a month.

*Designing a social networking plan for the community that TechSoup Serves

*Recently launched a community of over 400 nonprofit staff members and volunteers in Second Life. This community has a shared community blog at http://www.nonprofitcommons.org <http://secondlife.techsoup.org> 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.

*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.

*Runs monthly online community meet-ups in San Francisco for fellow online community managers in he SF Bay Area to exchange ideas and best practices.

*Frequently 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 will be speaking at SLCC and in October, she will be speaking in a panel she organized at the California Association of Nonprofits.

*Subject Matter Expert who writes on the topic of online community building in its various forms.

Susan Tenby’s Specialties:

Second Life, Social Networking Apps, Conference Speaking Appearances, Clips, Blogs, Groups, listservs, Community Management

For Press coverage, see: http://del.icio.us/suzboop/susantenby http://npsl.wikispaces.com/Press+Coverage

Susan Tenby’s Experience

• Senior Manager, Online Community Development

  TechSoup

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  February 2000 — Present (8 years 6 months)

• Senior COmmunity Manager, TechSoup Network

  Nonprofit Commons and TechSoup

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Additional Information

Susan Tenby’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Susan Tenby’s Interests:

Second Life, Online Community building and organizing

Susan Tenby’s Groups:

Online Community Meetup, Online Community Conferences and networks, CUAV, Second Life

•    TechSoup NetSquared member
•    TechSoup member

Susan Tenby’s Honors:

*Profiled as an Online Community Report's Expert, December, 2007
*Press Coverage: http://del.icio.us/suzboop/susantenby

Susan Tenby’s Contact Settings

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