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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

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Guest Post by Paul Lamb: The Religion & Technology Divide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If religious orgs are serious about building and enhancing community, why are they so behind in leveraging the latest and greatest technology tools to do so? And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW,

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Finding the time to experiment.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Myspace, along with Second Life and things like MissionFish are good examples of "experimentation." " In the case of LLS's use of myspace I feel like part of the experiment is figuring out how an org (vs. a person) actually participates in a community.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout. Lucy Bernholz who has been thinking deeply about the topic, shares her thoughts.

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Let’s Connect at the NTC!

Amy Sample Ward

What : This meeting is for for people at orgs who have been using social media for several years and will be a forum to exchange advanced level tips and stories, as well as share what’s worked and what hasn’t. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. When : 10:30 a.m.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It

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Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away.

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