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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog.

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Working Wikily: The Secret Life of A Wiki Gardener - It Ain't Just Weeding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I may follow up with a summary of what's been posted and point to specific holes. So, that's a sneak peek into the secret life of a wiki gardener. See also Social Media Classroom This stays fluid and try to point people to specific holes in the context or highlight good contributions. The NTEN Blog also does a post.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. Most likely similar to those pondered by the CDC as they launched their Second Life effort last fall ).

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Some Really Insightful Writing About Virtual Environments and Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. Her summary: 3D is coming, and we can't even handle 2.0. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post includes my slides and summary of the main points I will be making as well as links to resources. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. Gen Z By The Numbers. It’s the reason we’re not in the Dark Ages anymore.

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Working Wikily: Establishing A Giving or Gifting Culture in Wiki Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a story about a tree that gives everything to a young boy at every stage of his life. " The course had no existing curriculum and it provided a real life laboratory for him to have the curriculum come out of the community interactions that were happening in the classroom. educational technology and the adult learner."

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