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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo UgoTrade Blog. The Second Thoughts blog, in a post called " We Need A New Kind of Philanthropy " outlines ten ways a new kind of philanthropy could get started with the combination of social media and virtuality in worlds and games. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words.

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Enter Gartner. Gartner also says that SaaS is a kind of Cloud computing, but it has its own definition: SaaS is an application owned, delivered and managed remotely.

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US Congress in Second Life!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from article by Adam Reuters, Reuters Second Life Bureau and used with permission. Then I happen to notice another article on Adam's blog - about an announcement that US Congress will make its Second Life site available to the public Friday, January 5, 2007. Virtual representation of the reflecting pool at the National Mall.