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Virtual Morocco in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in Second Life, a student project! I've been curious what a virtual Angkor Wat or other cultural wonders of the world look like in Second Life?

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. So back to last night's events.

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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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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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From Gartner: Five Laws for Exploring Virtual Worlds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

second life, ??? but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. First Law: Virtual worlds are not games, but neither are they a parallel universe (yet). Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. enterprises) will have a ???

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. Silicon Valley North. It’s kind of a northern Silicon Valley.

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Meet Budley Omegamu/Sombit Mishra

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. Details will be available soon! Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , npsl