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

Have Fun - Do Good

This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits. Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. I am a total Second Life newbie. Download and install Second Life , it's free.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. I was hired in July 2009 to come into the organization and breathe life into social networking, explore new opportunities and empower the volunteers. YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492. gid=104492. 5) Launch a mobile version of www.pancan.org.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Virtual Worlds: The future or a fad?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. d certainly want to get on avatar and get the chance to chat with Mr.

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M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The study presents data from January 2006 through December 2007, covering 21 major nonprofit organizations that use four different major CMS platforms.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. You have until April 6th to nominate a project to be featured at the Netsquared 2007 Conference. Fundamentally the question is ???why Details are here.