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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. What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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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. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. Given that you are starting a virtual representation of people - you may be proned to projection.