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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Live-streaming is ideal for reporting live from conferences, fundraisers, and protests.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. chat history flys by and I'm scrolling back to catch up 2.) Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. Flipboard :: flipboard.com. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers!

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

But what's the right visitor profile for a history museum or an art museum? How should visitors self-identify relative to a research institution or a natural history museum? At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. Some allow you to write your life story.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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