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Kiva in Second Life: Interview With Official SL Volunteers

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Second Life kiva.org volunteer: Julles Boucher Kiva.org , a micro-finance organization, has funded nearly 17,0000 loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries and last week crossed the $11 million rank. I discovered this when I clicked on Skeeboo Tammas's profile while chatting with him in Second Life. His profile said.

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

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While the plugin makes it easy to expand your network, you have to think about your contact acquisition behavior. Just like you would in flickr or other social networking tools. I installed the LinkedIn tool for Outlook so when I add people to my Outlook address book (via Plaxo), I can also easily add them to my LinkedIn.

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What's It Cost? ROI of social media can be an intangible- The NonProfit Times March 15, 2011

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ROI of social media can be an intangible- The NonProfit Times March 15, 2011: "here's Facebook, Second Life, Myspace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and now Jumo. There are many smaller social networking platforms. What's It Cost?

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

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Blogging, Social Bookmarking, Expertise Matching, and MySpace Looks like Marnie Webb is using Ma.gnolia.com for her linkblog Britt Bravo launched the " Basic Blogging for Women " blog filled with pointers and summaries of advice to get started. Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set. More information here.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

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Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Finding the time to experiment.

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and we're going to let it fly for a whlie on our LLS myspace profile. Each site is different - LinkedIn has a different vibe than Myspace - and very different users. At LLS, our success with myspace does mean some staff time - so we've divided up the responsibilities but have given those folks ownership to experiment and "play."

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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. Rik Riel writes about the first professional orchestra to perform in Second Life. million users.

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