Stone co-founded and the company's Virtual Worlds group to research online social interaction and digital communities.

While director of the group, she taught at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program as an adjunct.

She is an adviser for the Internet and American Life Project,[4] the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force for the Center for Worklife Policy,[5] and is on the Advisory Board of the MIT Media Lab for social computing.

[6] Stone has been written about in many major publications, including Wired, the New York Times, and Forbes.

[3] She conceived Science Foo Camp, a series of interdisciplinary scientific conferences organized by O'Reilly Media and Nature Publishing Group.