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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.)

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Brighton Beach Brainstorm

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now.

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Microsoft OneNote Gives Dyslexic Kids a New Learning Experience

Tech Soup

A Simple Solution for a Complex Problem. Fill-in color maps, text recognition, and interactive math and science programs help the students improve their schoolwork by approaching assignments in different ways. He chose the name Ordyslexie, which comes from the French words for computer ( ordinateur ) and dyslexia ( dyslexie ).

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it which provides a browser bookmark tool that allows you to add geolocation machine tags to any of your flickr photos, which in turn will show up on this map : Upping the Tagging Ante to StoryMapping.

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We Tell Stories: Thinking Inside New Boxes

Museum 2.0

One winds along a google map. Being forced to design inside the bizarre physics of the Second Life design environment has taken us places we wouldn't have gone with traditional exhibit design tools. I often have problems in meetings understanding what people really mean. One is a garden of forking paths.

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