Podcast #27: Susan Tenby & Jessica Dally of TechSoup

This podcast is a departure from the dispersed software development teams I usually cover. I interviewed Susan Tenby and Jessica Dally of TechSoup, a nonprofit focused on providing other nonprofits with the technology they need to better accomplish their missions. One way they assist nonprofits is in helping them to use Second Life, a massive on-line “virtual world”, to collaborate and build community online.

I talked to Susan and Jessica about why TechSoup is a distributed organization, and why organizations are using Second Life to meet, network, and do their work. For someone who spends a lot of time doing remote collaboration, it was eye-opening for me to discover this whole new frontier of online interaction. After listening to this interview you may just be inspired to add a virtual world meeting space to your own remote collaboration tool box.

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Show Notes:

• Susan Tenby is @suzboop on Twitter
• Jessica Dally is @jessicadally
• TechSoup is @techsoup on Twitter
• Nonprofit Commons is @npsl on Twitter.
• A video about NPSL’s work in Second Life
• Second Life
• Hypergrid Business, a blog devoted to “enterprise users of virtual worlds”
• Community Voice Mail
• 5PM project management tool
• Evernote
• HootSuite
• BaseCamp