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More about that Homeless Avatar in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? So, I took the extra step of an interview. I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. What are the logistics of working the avatar? The homeless.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

Gyrus

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.

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Social Media Roadblock: An Interview with Wendy Harman, Red Cross - Social Media Strategy Case Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars.

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. Rob Wu of CauseVox – I met him several years ago when he had just started building CauseVox.

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Book Review: The Future of Nonprofits

Tech Soup

In fact, there are organizations that build innovative discovery into their structured work day (think of Google's 20% rule that all staffers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work day doing a project that is of their design and choosing, without the approval of leadership.)

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. Rob Wu of CauseVox – I met him several years ago when he had just started building CauseVox.

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Nonprofits and NGOs Celebrate International Women's Day

Have Fun - Do Good

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007).