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TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons and Beth Kanter in New York Times today!

Glitteractica_Cookie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:16:20 -0700

The New York Times covered our group and project in today's NY Times. Here's the blurb about our group:

More than 30 nonprofits have opened offices in a virtual business incubator in Second Life called the Nonprofit Commons that is operated by TechSoup, a group that helps other nonprofits with technology.

Not bad for a lil' fledgling group like ourselves!

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Fight Hunger video

tuesday — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:18:15 -0700

Tagging Tutorials -- Part I Flickr

Creech — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:42:20 -0700

My next few posts will deal with tagging on different social networking sites. This first tutorial will focus on Flickr.

In all the social networking sites that you might post to, there is something in common--tagging. Simply put, tags are little pieces of data that let people know what your information--whether it be an image, a video, or text--is about. For example, you could tag a picture of the castle in Warwick, UK on Flickr with "Warwick castle UK England" and when someone searched on these criteria would have the following results returned:

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The Second Life Non Profit Presence Getting Closer

Creech — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:16:53 -0700

Offices are being allocated to the tenants and it looks like we might start furnishing very soon. If you are interested in who is being housed where, check out the Flickr page below and mouse over the image.

NPSL (Thanks Missouri Humanities Council!)

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Uptime and Nonprofits

Creech — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:14:04 -0700

Recently I had an Skype message from Susan, our "nonprofit administrator herder" for the Nonprofits in Second Life project. I have to assume that she was posting to the site, or perhaps reading some recent content. In any case, she IMed me because the site was down. I'm acting as the Web master, so this made good sense. I probed a little bit and came to the conclusion that the server was completely unresponsive.

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NPSL Video

Creech — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:31:32 -0700

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