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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop.

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Event Announcement: The Tech Virtual's First Exhibition opens June 4!

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The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. In March, we selected the best of the virtual exhibits for translation into the real world.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

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On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By letting other nonprofits use your words, pictures, music, innovations, and processes, you are creating resources to help those most in need! In the days of newspapers, the best business model was to sell content to consumers. Today, the best business model is to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Get tech saavy.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 3

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It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space. But that's just a start.

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