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how did you find out about this assignment? Or did you come up with the idea yourself? How did you connect with the organization you helped/are helping? What's been good about the experience? What could be improved? What advice do you have for others? I found out about NonprofitCommons.org through...
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Absolutely. In today's market, where job openings are far and few inbetween, it would certainly benefit you to do some volunteer work. How so? Skills: What better way to keep your skills sharpened or learn new ones? I can't think of a better forum to learn about new software and updated networks...
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We're excited to have some TechSoup projects in the news! I just wrote up a blog post about the recent press we've received about our annual NetSquared conference, featured projects, and our Nonprofits in Second Life mixed reality event that took place at the conference. Check it out and find...
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We run into internet problems quite often in our Second Life, Nonprofit Commons project. Second Life is very resource-intensive and sucks up a lot of bandwidth. Additionally users have to be running a fairly recent video card just to be able to load the Second Life standard client. On this thread , users...
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TechSoup Community Members, The Nonprofit Commons, a project of TechSoup Global (TSG), today announced an all-day, innovative online event in Second Life to showcase recent developments in health care research, and to connect efforts in fighting disease and creating a cooperative and supportive environment...
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Have you used online conferencing software to host meetings or trainings for your organization? Have you held a virtual meeting in Second Life? Do you have a favorite tool -- free or paid -- that fulfills your voice, chat, IM, document sharing, and conferencing needs that everyone else should know about...
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True enough, but you're able to access the web at work because nonprofits no longer see the web as unnecessary. It wasn't that long ago that many of them did and had computers that reflected that (if they had computers at all). And because of that change in perspective they now have invested...
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It's a bit hard for me to say if I found Second Life hard to use or easy to use. I started my time in Second Life before I began there with my nonprofit so I had completed the steepest part of the learning curve in advance. I will say that at that time the endless help I received from friends and...
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Try the Stream Guys: http://www.streamguys.com/ - I and my colleagues have used them time and time again for live streamed events into SL. They have quite a few service packages available and since you'll be doing it on a weekly basis, you could probably work something affordable out. More importantly...
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Volunteer management expert Susan Ellis has a great hot topic this month on her web site, both as text and a podcast: Is the Rising Cost of Gas a Crisis or an Opportunity for Volunteering? She talks about, among other things, ways that volunteer managers could (and should) be using networking tech to...