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Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans

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I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. Then I teleported off to the Berkman Center discussion on Avatar Marketing.

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Information Island Grand Opening Celebration: Jeff Barr, Amazon Presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. While the presenter encouraged us to "think outloud" by typing comments in the chat as a substitute for body language, there wasn't a lot of interaction.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. They tire networks; call it competition fatigue.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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Over fifty avatars attended. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post. If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. Social Signal has also published a white paper on why Second Life and Virtual Worlds are important. This should be good fodder for debate.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. into the chat line -If you have a comment or observation type ! I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. I've thought using the moderated chat protocol that is interface independent.

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

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My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This