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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? They will be developing virtual pledge cards, sponsorships, teams, and other features.

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First Thoughts on Second Life

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I've been listening with one ear to the buzz about Second Life and non-profits for a while now, and paying it very little attention. The interest in using Second Life for online community building in the non-profit space has been high lately, and not just on the geeky fringe.

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Tear It Down and Virtual Guantanamo: Two Examples of Virtual Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. namo by signing a pledge protesting the U.S. government???

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Letting Your Fingers Do the Running - New York Times

AFP Blog

27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Pledges will be made in Second Life's virtual currency, though they will be converted to dollars before being passed along to the cancer society.".