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New Software Donations from Autodesk

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They were used for visual effects, for instance, in the James Cameron film, Avatar. ” Additional Resources: Autodesk Wiki Help website – free product help center. Autodesk entertainment products have won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for several years. This suite has five programs.

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Social Media Roadblock: An Interview with Wendy Harman, Red Cross - Social Media Strategy Case Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the WeAreMedia Module 4: Spreading Awareness and Buzz With Social Media , the community has built an awesome resource - lots of tips, resources, and ideas from people's experience. We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). The Social Media Roadblock. That was useful considering our time crunch.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It also serves a resource leave behind! It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality. " Web 2.0,

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What's the opportunity cost when a nonprofit blocks employees from using social network sites during work hours?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. No, I'm not saying that you should drop everything and spend all your time and resources using social networking and social media strategies. that are easy to grab and use. The campaign's home page has all the links you'd need to help out.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Top Rated Resources at Kikono. Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. Using a chat room to collectively take notes, or a wiki to evolve the agenda and take notes during a meeting. Nancy points to a few good resources on the topic of synchronous online facilitation techniques that I need to explore.

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. I set up a wiki page that includes my slides , a link to a rowfeeder spreadsheet for the hashtag (#midea), and the archived recording of the session.

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