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//Bio//: Susan Tenby is the Senior Community Manager, where she is responsible for the promotion, management and direction of the TS community forums, with an audience of 100,000 unique visitors a month. With the help of her volunteers, she recently launched a community of over 300 nonprofit staff members and volunteers in Second Life. This community has a shared community blog at [|http://www.nonprofitcommons.org]  and this 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.

The group also helped her launch 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 35 organizations, free of charge, to lower the barrier of access to the virtual world. She runs monthly online community meet-ups in San Francisco. She 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]. She also [|writes] on the topic of online community building in its various forms.

//Role in Nonprofit Commons and NPSL Projects://

Susan is the community manager for the TechSoup Group and the Nonprofit Commons group in Second Life. She is also the primary liaison between Anshe Chung Studios and the team.