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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo from Carmello. The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. Researchers are keen to develop measurements to unpack quantitatively how avatars experience different virtual environments and consume media they are presented with.

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iCared with lots of others for Convio Cares Week

Connection Cafe

Communities in Schools works with other nonprofit organizations to bring programs into schools to help students with academics, social issues, counseling, mentoring, and financial support. As students passed by our classroom throughout the day while we were working I came to understand how important Communities in Schools is to each of them.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

NTEN

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Raising money in a micro-philanthropic environment will come naturally to these groups. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Guide your students to conversations and resources. From Flickr User EJK.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. Refurbishment and the Environment. Images: Courtesy of Roger Smith and /tiian via Creative Commons on Flickr.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! Check out this presentation from Slide Share that uses the Wizard of Oz to explain Web2.0.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

I see four main reasons: Most participatory experimentation in museums starts in educational departments, and many educators primarily engage (and are funded to work with) students. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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