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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. It was amazing because the participants spanned the globe - literally - we had representatives from UK, Spain, Denmark, Asia, Austraila, and US. I met with the group last week.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. In fact, I met a librarian from Spain last night while wandering around.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. Day USA East is October 15th.

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5 Fundraising Learnings from Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

I recently had the chance to participate and present at Salesforce.org’s Nonprofit Summit , a virtual gathering that brought nearly 8,000 changemakers from over 90 countries to discuss the future of the nonprofit sector. By: Laura Croft, VP of Advancement at the CDC Foundation. Watch the session here.

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TechSoup's 'Novel' Ideas: What We're Reading Now

Tech Soup

The story combines a resource depleted Earth surviving by the international community's use of virtual worlds. Jarod Lanier is regarded as the father of virtual reality technology. He describes processes by which we can become more mindful and intentional with the time we spend in technical environments."

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TechSoup's 'Novel' Ideas: What We're Reading Now

Tech Soup

The story combines a resource depleted Earth surviving by the international community's use of virtual worlds. Jarod Lanier is regarded as the father of virtual reality technology. He describes processes by which we can become more mindful and intentional with the time we spend in technical environments."

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