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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. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? The office is located on "Information Island" and there are libraries near by.

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Delhi University

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Sena is a retired English Literature professor who has been visually impaired all of his life and continues to work avidly for people with visual impairments. I joined another blind professor, Jagdish Chander ("Jags" to his American friends), for beers later that day, and I learned about life as a blind professional in India.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The European Court of Justice has taken a landmark decision to reverse this fact of modern life. The case originated in Spain where a man there filed a complaint arguing that Google's search results infringed on his privacy. He taught me how to listen for the pulse and passions of charities and libraries over social media.

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

Mobile World Congress , an annual tech conference in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for global technology trends in the coming year. You can read about some of these apps in on our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page. If your organization or library is interested in building an app, the new AppMachine site is worth checking out.

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TechSoup's 'Novel' Ideas: What We're Reading Now

Tech Soup

It's an adventure of a teenager thrown, by chance, into a life and death treasure hunt that becomes a real life and death survival challenge where all the clues have to do with life and pop culture of the 1980s." I'll be in 16 th century Spain in Ildefonso Falcone's The Hand of Fatima. What about me?

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TechSoup's 'Novel' Ideas: What We're Reading Now

Tech Soup

It's an adventure of a teenager thrown, by chance, into a life and death treasure hunt that becomes a real life and death survival challenge where all the clues have to do with life and pop culture of the 1980s." I'll be in 16 th century Spain in Ildefonso Falcone's The Hand of Fatima. What about me?

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