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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

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Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

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Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

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Flickr photo from handsome monkey. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

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That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. NMC Consortium Summary. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes. local time).

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

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Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

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Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. Now, if I could just find a flip chart in SL that let's you type in the summary of key points - I'd be a happy.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. Mahdi Gharavi did a terrific job of live blogging the conference where you'll find summaries of the key points from speakers. Tools: Jane Quiqley talked about the up and coming applications and where the tools were leading up. Here's a summary of the different viewpoints in the nonprofit sector about it.