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Second Life, A Second Opinion

Tech Soup

One free service is Second Life, the most prominent online 3D virtual world where users can meet and socialize using voice and text chat. Last week, we posted a Second Life review by GreenTech volunteer, Michael Hodges, entitled Second Life as Alice in Wonderland.

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Second Life As Alice In Wonderland

Tech Soup

And one of these tools is Second Life , the most prominent online 3D virtual world where users can meet and socialize using voice and text chat for free. We asked GreenTech volunteer Michael Hodges to sign up and try out different things in Second Life like find the Nonprofit Commons Island and befriend 'avatars' there.

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29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blog: Nonprofit Commons: Nonprofits in Second Life. Blog: Nonprofit Tech 2.0. Blog: New Voices of Philanthropy. Blog: ext337. Rosetta Thurman: @rosettathurman from Washington, DC. Blog: Rosetta Thurman. Susan Tenby: @suzboop from San Francisco, CA. Sean Stannard-Stockton: @tactphil from San Francisco, CA.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

Tech Soup

Web conferencing, voice and video conferencing, and other types of remote collaboration have become a mainstay in the modern workplace. Many of us still travel a lot to attend meetings, but we can be certain that rising fuel prices are also a fact of life. The cost of travel is becoming more expensive.

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. is the managing editor for Global Voices. Holly Ross. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. Rachel Weidinger. Social Change Activists.

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Goodbye, Game Friday. Hello Open Source Museum.

Museum 2.0

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life.