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

NTEN

In this model, your organization will have no idea where the hardware actually providing your services is located -- and, better yet, you won't care. FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. way to the future?

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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

Museum 2.0

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. The Sheep built something for Nature that I love—a bubble gum machine that spits out models of chemical compounds. Let’s start with the basics. How would you define virtual worlds?

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

It’s very different than your traditional model. I think there are people who say “yes, there are people who have said I’ve changed my avatar green…&# One of the things with Dean’s campaign initially was that they had huge amounts of online activism but had problems turning that into real life work.

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