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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

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Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.)

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Branded RSS Widget!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. That's my Second Life avatar). Get this widget! You knew I just had to do this. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up.

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Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life. (IDI) Whos on Second Life?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy !

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Torley Linden on Widgets for Visuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Torley Linden works for Linden Lab (Second Life). He's been redesigning his blog over the past few days, adding widgets for visual appeal and RSS publishing feeds. Here's his 60 second message and his is very expressive! Also, I have the RSS widget that streams the headlines from my employer's blog onto my personal blog.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. Check this slideshow.

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