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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy !

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Fundraising Meets Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I started down this list that Lucy Bernholz has created, Online Social Networks and Second Life Philthanthropy. Certainly an issue that has been lurking beneath nonprofits and databases for years. Trying to see a pattern or theme. There more and more being written about Personal Fundraising and why it works.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. Next, we're going to centralized a database. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers. We identified four finalists. Peacemaker was the first place winner.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out.

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My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man

Connection Cafe

People internally think social media projects will bring with them an entire office of employees playing on Second Life and Facebook. Find ways other than money to measure success: -recruiting new prospect into in your database -speed of research. Best tips on championing social media. And for the panels "tops".

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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

Museum 2.0

open collections databases like the Powerhouse Museum's tagging system , where visitors can add their own keyword tags to museum artifacts. In these examples, staff are continually producing new content and interacting with the community via comment boards and other uploaded user-generated content. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web. Still later in the conference we saw numbers of about 30-60 viewers in Second Life and over 100 on the live Flash stream. tons, we did not put any padding in).