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Recap: Social Media for Social Impact

Forum One

This month, Forum One and Autodesk hosted a panel titled, "Social Media for Social Impact" during Social Media Week in San Francisco. Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods.

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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

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. In January, NMC released The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Ethan Zukerman's post about his Camp Darfur experience in Second LIfe, although metaverse games like Second Life might have a social impact in the future , he feels there are many reasons why he wouldn't recommend that social change projects invest their very limited resources in this technology now.