Keeping up with the times by Beth Maiden

Just as soon as I have a handle on what I think is the very latest in technology, I learn that I know nothing at all. 

We have been working diligently to upgrade our website with blogs, video, and audio in an effort to keep up with the times and expand a website visitor’s experience.  Our latest conquest has been to add a Flickr page with a photo library.  And I’m considering a MySpace page for our Youth Fund.  This is, of course, in addition to our current ways of communicating which includes emails, newsletters, events, and our annual report.

Today, as we were overcoming our issues with photos, my boss informed me of Second Life and how other nonprofit agencies were actually making products and money through participating in this virtual world.  Frankly, it’s a bit too 2001 Space Odyssey  for me. I’m still baffled by watching Robert Downey Jr. assemble Iron Man with a virtual toolbox and workbench.

We’ll figure it out, though, as this Foundation is committed to spreading our messages using as many mediums as possible.  I suppose that I need to start picking out my Avatar ….