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Connect in Person at #NCVS

Amy Sample Ward

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. Also, engage in a mixed reality event as avatars and representatives from nonprofits around the world discuss their work both virtually and in their communities. Get in Touch Via Twitter. Will you be at the NCVS?

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MacArthur Foundation Event About To Start!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are almost 200 hundred avatars here and it's twenty minutes before the event! Check out the article on the New York Times !

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Mixed Reality Learning Lab: @techsoup at NCVS

Tech Soup

For three days in New York City we experimented with new types of social media integration with Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS for short, which runs the AmeriCorps programs) and the Points of Light Foundation 's National Conference on Volunteerism and Service.

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New Software Donations from Autodesk

Tech Soup

In late September at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, Autodesk launched the Autodesk Technology Impact program. This new philanthropic program will provide software donations to nonprofit organizations in the U.S., They were used for visual effects, for instance, in the James Cameron film, Avatar.

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Letting Your Fingers Do the Running - New York Times

AFP Blog

Instead of running around tracks in their hometowns, participants will guide their onscreen representatives (known as avatars) around a virtual track designed and displayed in cyberspace. 27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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