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

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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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Favorite Free Software

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Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use).

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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. Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

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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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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

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Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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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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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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