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Member Round Up: Happy Labor Day Weekend!

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Flickr: ATOMIC Hot Links Ahhh, Labor Day weekend: the barbeques and parades, the hot rod drag race finals, and the wistful goodbye to summer, white shoes, and seersucker suits. For those in the Golden State, this year will play host to the first-ever California Nonprofit Tech Festival in Fresno on September 27 and 28.

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Brighton Beach Brainstorm

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although it was October, the weather was even nicer than California. The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now.

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life.

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World Cup: Who to Cheer For?

Have Fun - Do Good

It is 7:49 AM in California right now, and there are 7 people in our living room watching the US v. I found the site through the blog, It's Getting Hot In Here: Dispatches from the Global Youth Climate Movement Photos via Aenneken's photo stream on Flickr. Ghana game. Don't tell anyone, but I'm rooting for Ghana. World Cup Ghana

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Guided Visualizations at a Social Media Strategy Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by El Dave. For example, our staff guides a coalition in California to preserve the state’s investment in health and human services. If you can see it in your mind, you can create it in your life.&#. Once I could see what success looked like, I started to work backward on how to implement the vision.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. I wasn’t able to fully engage and immerse myself in the project; life on the outside took over.

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Connected Futures: Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm in California this week and for the long plane ride, I printed out a copy of the Action Notebook which summarizes dozens of practical steps that you need work through if you are stewarding a community of practice that fall under four theme areas: . Step 3: stewarding technology in use, in the life of the community and at its closing.