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Connect in Person at #NCVS

Amy Sample Ward

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. Attendees can join a tour of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life or learn how to use digital storytelling and Facebook for quick and easy updates to keep connected to supporters.

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Mixed Reality Learning Lab: @techsoup at NCVS

Tech Soup

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Remote Attendance at a conference and birthday party!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the same time, there was a wild and crazy 4th Birthday Party going for Creative Commons in multiple real world locations , Warsaw, Beijing, Amsterdam, Turin, Copenhagen, Lisbon, New York City and headquarters in SF. People were also meeting up in Second Life at the Creative Commons sim.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Nonprofit Commons Recap: Will Play Games for Peace

Tech Soup

The Online Leadership Program has been working with youth in New York City to design video games for 10 years now. " The Playing 4 Peace Challenge. This time around, they've partnered with Gamestar Mechanic and AMD to bring together the Playing 4 Peace Challenge.

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