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

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Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement. The event took place today. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" 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: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

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Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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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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Don't have your strategy and plans in place yet??? leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! No worries.

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. That's where that the open source thinking or the connected conversations start to happen. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work.

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