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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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My (co) article on TechSoup about Second Life and Nonprofits!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We interviewed three nonprofit trailblazers -- Dave Pentecost (also known as avatar "Usu Ventura"), Barry Joseph ("Globalkids Bixby"), and Evonne Heyning ("In Kenzo") -- all from youth organizations doing projects in Second Life and pictured below! Technorati Tags: secondlife.

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Henry Jenkins discusses participatory media in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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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? So, my avitar joined the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Virtual Support Group in Second Life.

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. To make life easier the boxes will grow bigger and after about an hour they will disappear. The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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