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

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Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. I'm embargoed from saying much more, but pretty soon.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

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LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

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Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. You must read this post about blogging and low-cost nonprofit professional development. and Katya A.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many nonprofits considering starting a blog should look at a team approach so the onus isn't on one person to blog. " Nonprofits and Web2.0 Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

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" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

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ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.