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Vote for the Best Social Change and Technology Projects at Netsquared!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. When you're ready, log into the NetSquared site (you can become a registered user here ) and vote for 5-10 of your favorite projects. Avatar Action Center. Creative Commons suggests.

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Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life: Nonprofit Commons Grand Opening Gala Event on August 14th, 2007

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Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. PT/SLT (Second Life time), 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration in their new offices in the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Create an account and avatar for yourself, also free.

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More on Virtual Worlds and Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rik Riel has been both a nonprofit applying for funds, a funder, and has spent a lot of time inworld. Often they have difficulty, in an uncertain environment, promising specific and verifiable results in a short period of time. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world.

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Yahoo! for Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. Examples: For World AIDS Day, avatars wore shirts with red ribbons and for Breast Cancer Awareness month they wore shirts with pink ribbons. This post was originally written for NetSquared. Example: Right now Yahoo!

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Should we put our social media tools away and have a conversation?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Everyone is blogging about what is going on in Davos to the point that no one has time to talk face-to-face anymore because they need to rush off and record the last great thought. But by the time I arrived on Wednesday, there were already one million blog hits for ??? Davos 2007.??? At this rate, we???ll I noticed this first at TED.

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People of the Year: US

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--Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year. This post was written for the NetSquared blog. nptech time you net2 But rather than the person of the year being the you in user, isn't it the us in users?

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. A time investment of more than a few hours.