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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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Favorite Free Software

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Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Faxes arrive as email attachments: [link] (Be aware that they do things like periodically changing your fax number to induce you to pay. Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link].

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Laura White wonders whether " Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate ? Follow her trail here.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. It's recently been updated.

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. And, how does the picture morph and change that pattern/idea? That's where that the open source thinking or the connected conversations start to happen.

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