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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The event will also feature a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today????, There's YouTube video here.

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So I decided to start my own blog to help people see how social marketing concepts can be applied to their own health and social issues, as well as to have credibility when I tell my clients to consider using blogging and social media. what are they thinking, feeling and doing in relation to the health or social issue you are promoting?

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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

Museum 2.0

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. Let’s start with the basics. They were doing it socially.

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