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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

She is using the virtual media capabilities in Second Life , among others, to navigate her continued research. These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible. Success in Second Life.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Intermingling between Twitter and Other Spheres

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. with casinos " "The guy secretly loves second life.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it.

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NpTech Tag Summary: The SlideShare Edition

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, for this week's NpTech Tag Summary, I'm aggregating a few of the best ones. A Second Life for the Archivist. Over the past few months, on my own time, I've been analyzing the content of slide shows on this site and identifying slide shows to add to a NpTech group which only has 9 members so far. Bottom-Up Tagging.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Second C: Collaboration. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Third C: Community.

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Things We Like (November 2008)

NTEN

Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Just remember that actions in SL can affect your life in the really real world. Google.org has developed a way to track flu outbreaks based on aggregated search data. Wired stakeholders. IBM's going to bring broadband to rural areas over power lines.

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