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TechSoup Taiwan Talks Gaming for Social Good at Net Tuesday Event

Tech Soup

According to a 2010 statistic, people around the world spend three billion hours a week playing video games. The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life hosted a discussion on whether games can be used to create peace and Carlos Bergfeld asked whether games for social change need to be fun to be effective.

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Ethical Storytelling for Nonprofits: A Detailed Guide

Neon CRM

14 Tips for Nonprofit Storytelling In a study by researchers Dan and Chip Heath, only 5% of people could recall statistics from a presentation they’d just heard. But it can get a second life with a short version condensed to fit into a series of photos or a 60-second Instagram Reel.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To answer Deborah's question, I don't think Facebook is yet the default front end for nonprofits, but it has become an increasingly important fundraising channel give the impressive growth statistics (not just users but in the age 35 plus category). And, of course, Facebook is a taste of what is coming in November.

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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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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. Where Most Needed blog lets us know that Google has acquired a fun statistical visualization tool from a Swedish nonprofit. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Are Web statistics a matter of transparency. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

We know that the actual statistics of people coming through the door is not quantifiable yet—we haven’t done a visitor survey in a couple years. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us. We try to be really really careful here.

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