Spread the Word - TechSoup is Hosting Health Panel Expo Event Today!

SamSlesinger — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:43:26 GMT

TechSoup Community Members,

The Nonprofit Commons, a project of TechSoup Global (TSG), today announced an all-day, innovative online event in Second Life to showcase recent developments in health care research, and to connect efforts in fighting disease and creating a cooperative and supportive environment for patients and their providers. The Health Panel Expo, an international online conference sponsored by FasterCures.org, will be held on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST (also called Second Life Time, SLT) in the virtual world of Second Life and simultaneously in the real world, being broadcast live at the fourth annual NetSquared Conference at Cisco in San Jose, CA.,The Second Life online event is free to attend and open to all interested participants. It will be accessible through Second Life, and all information will be available at http://www.nonprofitcommons.org/healthpanel.

The Health Panel Expo panelists will include speakers from Aids.gov and Community Voicemail discussing mobile health initiatives; Virtual Ability, Inc., a nonprofit that brings people with disabilities and chronic health conditions into virtual worlds; and Susan Tenby, Online Community Director for TSG and the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Other panelists include experts from the disability, recovery services, nutrition, cancer, and AIDS communities.

The Health Panel Expo marks the official launch of the Health Commons in Second Life. As part of TSG's Nonprofit Commons project, Health Commons seeks to bring together real-world health-related nonprofits, academics, educators, thought-leaders, foundations, and volunteer-supporters to showcase recent developments in health care.

I'll be in San Jose, videoblogging the event with a trusty Flip Video camcorder by my side, but we could use your help to promote the panel around the world. Here's text you can use on all your favorite web portals, feel free to cut and paste:

Thanks!

TWITTER/PLURK:
Mixed reality panel today, 11am & events in Second Life all day:
8am-5pm, w/ Nonprofit Health orgs http://nonprofitcommons.org/
#npslexpo

Twitter hashtag: #npslexpo
Twitter account: @npsl

The event poster jpeg, along with NetSquared conference logo are
posted in the Google Group files. You can also find a link to poster
here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3608/3567950465_61a3c903d3.jpg?v=0

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Spread the Word - TechSoup is Hosting Health Panel Expo Event Today!