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Inauguration Accommodations at an NPC member’s Horse Farm

Fellow NPCers,

Do a good deed for an NPC member program (Great Strides) working hard to keep the barn doors open (IRL in MD) and pass along this info for Inauguration Accommodations on a horse farm! Full details at: http://www.postlets.com/rts/1641597 or call Terry at: 301-928-8118.

Photo of house attached!

Thanks,

Brad

Brad Lewis, RL
Veri Oddfellow, SL (Aloft Nonprofit Commons Tenant)
Board Chair
Great Strides
www.GreatStrides.org
Brad@greatstrides.org

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Recent Press on 2009: Virtual Charity, Virtual Socializing & Giving Circles

Hi, NPC & TechSoup Members – Happy New Year!

Here are some articles I found on things to watch out for in 2009, including virtual charity, virtual socialzing/therapy and Giving Circles…enjoy!

SmartMoney (December 24, 2008)
The New Way to Give: Virtual Charity by Reshma Kapadia
http://www.smartmoney.com/Spending/Budgeting/The-New-Way-to-Give-Virtual…

SmartMoney (December 24, 2008)
The New Way to Give: Be Your Own Charity (become a Giving Circle)
http://www.smartmoney.com/Spending/Budgeting/The-New-Way-to-Give-Be-Your…

Ninety Things to Watch in 2009 (including Giving Circles, virtual reality therapy and virtual socializing), Fri. December 26, 2008; Posted: 09:25 AM
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2100520/

Change.org: Recap: Top Trends Shaping Social Entrepreneurship in 2009 by Nathaniel Whittemore, Published January 02, 2009 @ 10:02AM PST
http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/
…including Online Action Platforms:

http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view/top_trends_2009_4_onl…

Look forward to seeing you all around Nonprofit Commons 1, 2 & 3 in 2009!

Anika 🙂

Written by: GCN

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Canadian Colleges Exploring Second Life in Higher Education – with Mixed Results

This is an interesting blog post from University Affairs about the perceived ups and downs of Second Life as discovered by Loyalist College, the first Canadian college to have a presence in Second Life. The post cites the learning curve to truly understand SL and computer hardware requirements as drawbacks to educating in the virtual world. The college does believe that SL offers the most opportunities for educators.

FULL STORY

I understand that hardware requirements can be an issue, but I am hard pressed to believe that the learning curve is a factor for college students when exploring SL. Thoughts?

Written by: Beth J. Bates

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How Many People Have Visited?

We started tracking traffic on the nonprofitcommons on March 20th, 2007. It was a trickle at first–10 or 12 visitors a day. I thought it might be of interest to give an overview of what we look like as a community. How many of us have come? What have we been using? How long do we stay?

A couple of weeks back, I started doing an analysis of the past two years. I thought it would be interesting give a brief over view of traffic and where that traffic has come from.

Over the last 19 months we’ve been rather busy. We’ve enjoyed nearly 37,500 visits and almost 74,000 page views. Our visitors spend over a minute and half on site. 29,327 unique users have come to the site (although this is a deceptive number–the same person could have visited the site on different IP addresses).

Our visitors come from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Japan, Netherlands. and China.

Written by: Creech

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GimpGirl Community Festival – December 11th

Join us before you head off to the Common Ground meeting on Plush.:)

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GimpGirl Community Festival
This is an online, international event that will be held in Second Life, but is accessible to those not on Second Life via IRC chat. See below for details.

Join us for an amazing evening to benefit GimpGirl Community! GimpGirl is a place where women with all kinds of disabilities (and abilities) have come together to talk about what it means to be a woman with a disability since 1998. We currently hold weekly support groups, presentations on relevant topics, free vendor space for members and parties on our parcel. We also have an art gallery with works by WWDs, and events for the general public.

GimpGirl Community Festival Schedule:

5-6pm SLT: DJ Yngwie Krogstad
6pm-7pm SLT: Andreus Gustafson
7pm-8pm SLT: Jana Kyomoon
8pm-9pm SLT: Obeloinkment Wrigglesworth
9-10pm SLT: Kala Pixie (live particle show)

Thursday, December 11th from 5:00 – 10:00 PM SLT/Pacific.
(8:00 PM Eastern Time, for other timezones, click HERE)

NOTE: This gathering is for EVERYONE. Bring your friends.smile

Second Life Location:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/3DE/174/22/21
(THE STAGE IS TO THE EAST AFTER YOU LAND)

IF YOU DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO SECOND LIFE:
You can still attend this meeting online via IRC. To visit our IRC/Second
Life chatroom, go to:
http://chat.on.quickfox.net/GimpGirl

…and choose the option that works best for you.

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Cheers,
Jennifer Cole, Co-Director and Founder
Second Life: JennyLin Arashi
GimpGirl Community
http://www.gimpgirl.com

Written by: Beth J. Bates

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Scenarios USA & Global Kids Present the Virtual Premiere of the 2008 Real Deal Youth Films December 17

On Wednesday December 17, Scenarios USA and Global Kids will be hosting the virtual premiere of the three youth-written short films produced by Scenarios on the subject “What’s the Real Deal about Masculinity?”. Taking place on both the Teen Grid and Main Grid of Second Life, both youth and adult residents will be able to watch excerpts from the three films, listen to a live interview with two of the youth writers and Rob York of Scenarios, and ask questions about the films.

THE DETAILS:
WHEN: December 17, 2008, 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST
WHERE: International Justice Center, Main Grid, Second Life (http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Justice%20Commons/7/221/29)
Machinima Island , Teen Grid, Second Life (http://slurl.com/secondlife/GK%20Machinima%20Island/208/125/30)

See http://virtualpremiere.holymeatballs.org for more info.

Written by: rikomatic

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Help Project Jason Change America

Imagine if you had one of your family members disappear, then you found out there are many unidentified bodies with no procedures to find out who they are.

One could be your loved one and you would never know it.

Project Jason has worked for years to get better procedures in place to help. Now there is a chance to get this matter some attention.

Change.org is hosting Ideas for Change – Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven effort to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and Congress can turn the broad call for “change” across the country into specific policies. You can help by submitting an idea for how you would change America, discussing ideas with others, and/or voting for your favorites. Read More

Project Jason is in fourth place, but they need to be at least in third place to make it to the next round.

I’d like to ask for your help, it only takes two minutes to cast a vote. It’s a very fast process and a worthwhile cause.

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/establish_national_protocol_in_missing_and_unidentified_person_cases

Please tell your friends, and your groups. Thank you, NPC!

Written by: Beth J. Bates