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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life. Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL. ") I walked around the space and chatted with the avatar who was the human involved in the project.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' local time).

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? era websites. I expect it isn???t t always going to be a ???build

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list. Introduction.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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