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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Recap: October.

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Microsoft OneNote Gives Dyslexic Kids a New Learning Experience

Tech Soup

The Ordyslexie program has now been active since 2010 and has affected the lives of more than 1,500 students. It centralizes requests from the nonprofits who would like to benefit from the solution, distributes the tablet PCs, and undertakes public relations activities in collaboration with its partners. Video: Microsoft Ideas.

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Level Up and Change the World: Gamification Apps

Tech Soup

Depending on your resources and budget, adding a gaming element to your organization's campaigns could be as simple as a social media contest or as elaborate as developing your own game-like app. Gamify Your Organization. You might be able to find help from NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. Stephen Friedman - MTV U We started with activism - pushing and questioning authority. Activism has evolved beyond sit-ins. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. Technologies to Recruit, Engage, and Activate Youth." All the candidates. Using Web2.0

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