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Virtual Worlds for Insurrection and Revolution in Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Legal and Mgmt : open source?; Installed based : # of actual users; number, quality and diversity of objects free or for sale; size of developer community; level of adoption by academic, corporate, government users. Example virtual worlds: Second Life; Active Worlds; Entropia; Olive. IP (who owns created objects?);

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. Freecharity.org.uk

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Perfect Password generator.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? What is the balance of government, private, and earned income? Each of these sources are fickle. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured.