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A few Second Life Tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alexandra Samuel from Social Signals starts off 2007 with several announcements related to Second Life - the addition of a virtual worlds manager and an Open house in Second Life later on today. There is also a post titled " Seven Reasons Why You Should Consider 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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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. And, I got an instant response.

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Rachel Weidinger.

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Lewis Hyde at Berkman Center - OMG!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For an amusing preview of the kind of analysis I???d Webcast viewers can join the discussion through IRC text chat or in the virtual world Second Life. My talk will flesh out this line of thought with examples from science, the arts, politics, and law. d like to undertake I recommend Jonathan Lethem???s s essay, ???The

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Web Analytics, Statistics, and Social Networking Analysis The Net2ThinkTank: What is The Return On Investment Of The Social Web For Nonprofits? This is a really interesting analysis of Social Networking/Online Community behaviors or personalities based roughly on Myers-Briggs. Tag your post with "net2thinktank."

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Event Announcement: The Tech Virtual's First Exhibition opens June 4!

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The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. On June 4, the physical prototypes hit the floor of The Tech and the real fun (and analysis) begins.

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