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Information Island Grand Opening Celebration: Jeff Barr, Amazon Presentation

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You can read the presenter's reflections on the event or what he calls "info-edu-tainment" here and a participate blogs about their experience here. 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.

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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. Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge.

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Andy Roberts is part of the group that is now being called "Virtual Educators Community of Practice" He's written a meta reflection on some of his recent tour experience here. The places with more than a handful of avatars present always seem to increase the probability of trouble though. Personally I think I???ve If there???s

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream.