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The Olympics and Learning – A Fierce Combination

Gyrus

If a big swimming event is occurring next week and it is going to be in the hearts and minds of your employees, why not place a game in front of them that allows them to expand on their learnings while advancing their avatars across a cartoony swimming pool?

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

NTEN

The people in these organizations know how to communicate and collaborate, and much of this interaction is conducted face-to-face. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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Berkman Island on Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. Next meeting is 10:30 a.m.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. There are better and more efficient channels for collaboration, conference calls for one. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ??? avies' to stand around and chat.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds. 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. Collaborative Experience.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration. What's this all about"?