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

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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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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. When Web Sites Become Web Services from the Read/Write Web. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. " Web 2.0, Lucy has more coverage on her blog.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. There’s no other service like it and they are currently accepting new nonprofit partners. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We the People is an online petitioning service launched by the Obama Administration that enables U.S. Although its terms of service specify that only individuals can create and sign petitions, U.S.-based A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Government. Vine :: vine.co.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program. Aradium is a new service that enables nonprofits and small businesses to create and host online stores inside of their Facebook Pages. For nonprofits that sell products online, Aradium offers their service to legal 501c3 organizations for free.

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