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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."

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Should Everyone Work on the Front Line as Part of their Career?

Museum 2.0

I figured I could pay someone a lot of money to go to graduate school, or I could pay nothing (and hopefully get paid) to learn on the job. This decision fit well with my learning style--I tend to lean towards real-world experience and self-directed endeavors. It's a learning environment free of meetings and bureaucracy.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

Even when there is funding to build a tech solution, perhaps from a large foundation, there is rarely the long-term funding to maintain it, let alone improve it. Nonprofits need to find a way to share the costs of maintaining technology that works for them and that will work for them in the long term. The Open Collective Idea.

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