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Recap: Social Media for Social Impact

Forum One

Susan Tenby explained how TechSoup helped non-profits establish a presence in SecondLife , demonstrating how the virtual world can be used to disseminate information and also act as a venue for people to meet. In SecondLife, Tenby described time as currency. s " You In? " campaign that encouraged random acts of kindness.

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First Thoughts on Second Life

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

But I have to admit that while the idea of doing serious work in a virtual environment is very appealling to me - I am a big Neal Stephenson fan after all - I haven't been able to make myself make the required investment in time to explore the place for myself. Tags: nptech , secondlife , ACS

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technology as tools for communities to use - as opposed to technology as environments in which new communities may evolve. Secondlife seems to me to lend itself much more to the environment end of the spectrum.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The online environment is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of playters simultaneously over the Internet. Technorati Tags: second_life , sl , secondlife A few organizations in the nonprofit sector are exploring the power of the this type of gaming medium for social justice - take Camp Darfur for example.