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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

He is the creator and host of GoInspireGo.com (GIG), a multimedia platform that "uses social networking for social change." And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. Participate virtually at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons Drive-In Theater in Second Life.

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Play2Train: The Island Where Anything Can Go Wrong

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One form of online learning that Second Life and virtual worlds platforms are particularly well suited for is simulations. The Whose on Second Podcast has an interview with Ramesh Ramloll who is technical director and Neill Piland the overall director of the Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program, IBAPP for short.

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NpTech Summary: Slow Wifi and Flickr Massage Edition

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. It enables people to give to people in need anonymously. I noticed Soup.io in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

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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Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. Don’t sign your mass e-mails with just your company name (and most certainly do not include a scanned signature from your general director). Don’t give up.

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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

Museum 2.0

With 10-20 hours per week, become a community director. The thing that often differentiates the heavy lifting ones from the simple activities is the ongoing development of new content, new platforms, and new experiments. If you want to get really fancy and go video, you can "vodcast" this way, too. But you want something bigger?

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