Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Analysis Twitter Giving Lesson 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over fifty avatars attended. I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. We are seeking volunteers from within the Second Life community to serve as jurors or to role play the parts of witnesses.

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Second Life Open Source Life Education 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

And if you’ve ever logged into this brutally confusing new technology, you’ve probably been literally confronted the sense that your avatar, let alone the emperor, has no clothes. Fundamentally, virtual worlds are a new communication medium. So what does it all mean, and where’s the reality within the virtual reality hype?

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Second Life Museum Life Virtual 20