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Vote for the Best Social Change and Technology Projects at Netsquared!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. Avatar Action Center. The complete list of projects can be found here.

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Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life: Nonprofit Commons Grand Opening Gala Event on August 14th, 2007

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Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. Part of my job is to help put together Net Tuesdays in San Francisco, monthly meetings for social changemakers and web innovators to socialize, network and share resources. I am a total Second Life newbie.

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More on Virtual Worlds and Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But that hasn't really happened, partly due to the wide open nature of the web and sensitive nature of these concerns. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. vote with their feet,??? these folks can simply fly away. Hypothetically, web2.0

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Yahoo! for Good

Have Fun - Do Good

When you try to explain how the Web can be used for social change to a colleague, family member or friend, do they get a glazed and confused look in their eye? Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. This post was originally written for NetSquared.

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People of the Year: US

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The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. Isn't the goal of the social web to create an us, a sense of connection, a community? This post was written for the NetSquared blog.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. For me, the web and 2.0