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Second Life, A Second Opinion

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This month, TechSoup Global's GreenTech Initiative will be kicking off a Telegreening Your Workplace campaign to help nonprofits and libraries discover ways to save money, reduce travel, and still be effective in your work. Tags: GreenTech Online Seminar Using the Web and Internet. Monica is a San Francisco based architect.

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Free Webinar May 13: Using Second Life to Collaborate and Connect

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The virtual world of Second Life is a platform that is a 24/7 always-on online community where the world’s content is entirely user-generated. Tags: Event Online Seminar Using the Web and Internet. This free webinar on May 13 at 11 a.m. Hear from Susan Tenby, Jessica Dally, and Renne Brock-Richmond who will: read more.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. The online environment is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of playters simultaneously over the Internet. At least once a month, I jump down rabbit holes.

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Mixed Reality Learning Lab: @techsoup at NCVS

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This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Watch this Webinar About Wikis

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I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki. With nearly 250 participants on the web conference and in Second Life, we had many people excited to get started: read more.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, April 17-23

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EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Conferencing Virtually : The Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week One). Article: Go Green with Virtual Meetings and Web Conferencing. Ten Tips to TeleGreen Your Work.

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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

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" Virtual meetings are live or "synchronous" interactive meetings in which each participant sits at their own computer or phone and is connected to other participants via the Internet and mobile devices. I recommend using some handy online carbon calculators to estimate the cost of past or future flights.

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