Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life. She also said that she uses wikis. Pretty cool, huh?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. It's an open source free web meeting service. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. Rachel Weidinger.

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He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He has served on multiple charity boards. He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site.

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. Freecharity.org.uk

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MAY 18, 2007

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. You'll also need some video editing software. It's recently been updated.

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MARCH 23, 2007

Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

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 know of a very active local organisation that uses 2 great opensource web2.0 apps phpwiki & wordpress. the documentary on youtube for possibly useful example. (Not

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JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. See 1,010 Favorite Tools on the TechSoup Blog. Global NpTech. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. What's Hiafux ? All the candidates.

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MAY 19, 2008

They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program. The program introduces how to use the technology, but also social skills.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Will exhibit developers really use (and derive any value from) Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person. Other blog coverage here.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

The annual international conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is taking place in Bali and in Second Life from December 3-8th. It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment. Zonbu has announced a laptop version.

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