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He was participating via SecondLife as an on-screen avatar. Two-thirds of our panelists were in the top 10 of all evaluations (Steve Daigneault / Amnesty International and Tim Fullerton / OxFam America) and the overall evaluation of our session was very high. You can read more about it on Barry’s blog.

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Recap: Social Media for Social Impact

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Tags: secondlife. 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!

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Games for Change: June 11-12th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm on a panel with Susan Tenby of TechSoup and Evonne Heyning from Amoration Studios about Nonprofits in Secondlife. (here's my blog posts ) So, I'm delighted to post this announcement for this year's Games for Change - and guess what? For this panel, I'm contributing a community wiki about the topic here.

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First Thoughts on Second Life

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Tags: nptech , secondlife , ACS

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Tech and NGO T-Shirts for Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t be surprised if u r on the way to somewhere sometime and see cambodians on bicycles or motorbikes wearing t-shirs of technorati , creative commons , secondlife , techsoup , and so on??? I love what Lux wrote about the t-shirts: new t-shirts on the street: don???t beth kanter brought all of those for cloggers. m wearing ???i

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Secondlife seems to me to lend itself much more to the environment end of the spectrum. m reminded of one of the four dichotomies which emerged from my research into current thinking about distributed communities of practice last year.