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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

Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, of course, Facebook is a taste of what is coming in November. If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Of course, another way to do this is to set up your own shop on cafepress. (Oh, This early holiday gift from the good folks at Care2 and SeaChange Strategies, " A Procrastinator's Guide to Year-End Fundraising " will give you a crash course on best practices for maximizing online giving. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !)

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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, of course, having an audience always added a little bit of energy too. I modified his "Mankato Scale" into a nonprofit tech skills assessment.

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