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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." The exercise was a great learning experience.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education.

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We Tell Stories: Thinking Inside New Boxes

Museum 2.0

Reading the stories, I flashed back to the writing exercises I used to give students in poetry classes. Being forced to design inside the bizarre physics of the Second Life design environment has taken us places we wouldn't have gone with traditional exhibit design tools. One is distributed across blogs and twitter feeds.

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

Museum 2.0

It might be worth going through an exercise where your team says, "Making a PBS half hour program would cost X. Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. But in Second Life, we were building strong relationships and empowering those virtual members as exhibit designers.

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