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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

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In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Although I could participate via Second Life. Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. If I was going, I wouldn't miss this panel. Check this out.

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Fight Hunger's Click To Feed A Child Campaign Facebook App

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I also discovered a group called " I will donate $1 for every person that joins this group to Fight Hunger " which is being organized by some super activists high school kids.). Fight Hunger is doing a lot of experimentation with social media - from their viral video contest to their fundraising event in Second Life.

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

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VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. And here's a Web2.0

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

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On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

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Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. We go to WOW server and get a group together. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. We identified four finalists. Peacemaker was the first place winner.

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

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As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ???

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

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They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away.

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