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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Current Affair: The Importance of Keeping Your WordPress Site Updated

Byte Technology

For anyone who owns—or has ever owned—a smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop computer, the mantra that is constantly hammered into us is “update, update, update.” The post Current Affair: The Importance of Keeping Your WordPress Site Updated appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, guess what? I’m giving up.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). What Is Web 2.0? social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An

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PC World - Business Center: OLPC Tries to Bridge Gap With Developer Community

AFP Blog

PC World - Business Center: OLPC Tries to Bridge Gap With Developer Community: "A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child's commitment to open-source software has prompted an official from the nonprofit effort to play peacemaker.".

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

is an exploration of what we can do now that we have unleashed climate change – how we can build communities (including virtual ones) societies, and economies that can withstand the trouble that is coming. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. His latest book EAARTH.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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