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NpTech Tag Summary: Highlights from the NpDev and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world.

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The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop launches today!

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The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes. I know that Second Life can be a clunky, frustrating experience.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. without leaving the virtual world!

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." " Of course, I couldn't imagine doing otherwise!

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 3

Museum 2.0

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space. It's lovely.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. Previously, On NMC….

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Goodbye, Game Friday. Hello Open Source Museum.

Museum 2.0

So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. This is happening very, very quickly. We’re going to make mistakes.