Online Community Development; Avatar Activism & Organizing; Virtual Worlds Evangelist; Online Social Network Enthusiast
San Francisco Bay Area
Online Community Development; Avatar Activism & Organizing; Virtual Worlds Evangelist; Online Social Network Enthusiast
San Francisco Bay Area
*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.
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
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
February 2000 — Present (8 years 6 months)
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Second Life, Online Community building and organizing
Online Community Meetup, Online Community Conferences and networks, CUAV, Second Life
*Profiled as an Online Community Report's Expert, December, 2007
*Press Coverage: http://del.icio.us/suzboop/susantenby