I had an interesting experience recently that reminded me of Surinder’s post on what he sees as some negative trends in email communication, only this experience happened in Second Life. Mike immediately told me that he was demonstrating Second Life to a class of about 25 students, who were not there in avatar form but I can assume were watching our interaction on a screen. MORE
My Second Life partner-in-crime Mia asks whether what men and women expect and demand from love is different , and if that affects how they relate in community. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. February 9, 2008 Saturday Links of the Week -- February 9, 2008 and you thought you had a lot of snow. MORE
November 18, 2007 Sunday Open Thread -- November 18, 2007 Image by Christer Rosewell What Im Thinking of Writing (and Podcasting) About Soon: Principles of Natural Polyamorous Community: Ivefound a remarkable woman in Second Life (or rather, weve found eachother) who shares my vision for creating an intentional polyamorouscommunity (we actually share a lot more). And I thought my life couldnt get any better! MORE
November 3, 2007 Saturday Links for the Week -- November 3, 2007 -- The Hopeful Edition M aybethe press is just weary of reporting bad news, or maybe its thegiddiness of sleep-deprivation from spending so much time with my newfriends in Second Life, but the news this week seems, well. Bee invited me to Thursdays Second Life conference oneducation, where I met Nancy. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. MORE
96% of them have a Facebook profile while less than 1% of them regularly use Second Life. In the context of marketing to young people or trying to reach them electronically for any other pupose such as offering library services, forget Second Life - they are not using it. Of course, there is much to be learned by playing with new technologies such as Second Life but if you do don’t be surprised when nobody visits your virtual island or library. MORE
sit in a round table conversation in the Community Capers Second Life site. Community Capers is a place to showcase and case study some of the most successful online communities out there. Each month we will focus on an issue of community development and a community of practice that demonstrates a highly effective way to address that issue. Each month we will: present a community case story. hear from guest bloggers from the spotlighted community. MORE
Tags: Research Virtual Worlds Collaboration technology avatar collaboration communication identity instant messaging leadership relationships satisfaction Second Life virtual team virtual teams virtual world virtual worlds MORE
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Why I Love Second Life BLOG Why I Love SecondLife (Thisis a reworking of a private article I wrote a while ago for my SecondLife colleagues. I sponsor and belong toan Intentional Community in Second Life, an island that is so realisticand so beautiful that we have had film crews use it as asetting for animated productions. So I spend my real life, asmuch as possible, practicing doing these eleven things. MORE
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Walking Away BLOG Walking Away Photoby Second Life artist Nevar Whitfield S everalof you gave me a hard time over my article on co-ops, specificallybecause I said I wouldnt personally be part of the co-op movement. But this weary body andtired heart will be elsewhere, living a life of modest joy. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. MORE
An example would be the use of rooms that look just like real world classrooms with avatars giving students power point presentations as a way to use Second Life for teaching. Christian Wagner of City University of Hong Kong discussed how he uses Second Life to educate his business students studying global business and innovation. Students must form teams, design and execute a business idea that takes advantage of the unique culture of Second Life. MORE
Our fledgling Intentional Community in Second Life. Y esterdayMia, the woman with whom Im creating an experimental IntentionalCommunity in Second Life, and I, and our friend Mich, had a longconversation,using Second Lifes voice-to-voice facility, about the nature of newsocial media, and about when each is appropriate, and about thechallenges oftransitioning from one medium to another. MORE
It breaks my heart to do so, because its a lovely andextraordinary little story, written in real time by two real people ina world that is in some ways more real than anything that could happenin real life. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. October 30, 2007 Vignette #6: A Little Romance I have been asked to take this storydown. MORE
But none seems as important right now as what I wrote aboutyesterday -- my quest to employ Second Life as a testing ground tocreate a working model of Intentional Community. What is strange to me is that I no longer feel inclinedto create an Intentional Community in Real Life. The history ofIntentional Community Success in Real Life is not great, and fear offailure is very human. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. MORE
I believe that products like Second Life could provide powerful immersive platforms to link together web applications (eg via web services) in much more engaging ways for various collaborative group applications such as team games and business simulations. MORE
Tags: Research Virtual Worlds avatar Teamwork building social relationships virtual team instant messaging Leadership virtual worlds leadership virtual world communication virtual teams Second Life ice-breaker Collaboration Collaboration technology MORE
I've never spent time to understand or experiment with Second Life. When I was checking feebs (Dutch site with videos for quote "ICT-ers and professionals" - so ICT-ers are NOT professionals :) I found this tutorial for Second Life by Thorley Linden. Besides using it as tutorial you can use it to get some feel of how it is to walk in second life with an avatar. I also read a book by the writer Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer about his experiences in Second Life. MORE
Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video). 2 video uploads each month (90 seconds max, 150MB per video). You can see the Second Life growth charts here. MORE
The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I’ve been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia. Burning Books and Websites PIC: BookShopBlog. MORE
The first of these spotlighted communities will be Jokaydia a CoP that has its home base in Second Life but impacts on the professional lives of its members well beyond that environment. link] (for Second Life). MORE
Document Collaboration in Second Life. Tom talks about the possibilities of document collaboration in Second Life. " Did you know you can also collaborate on documents in Second Life? Here's a great video on EtherPad Real Time in World Text Collaboration from the Second Life English Blog. Central Desktop Shared Folders. Central Desktop is adding a Shared Folders feature to its online collaborative workspace service. MORE
L astevening I had an astonishing discussion with three of my colleagues inour Second Life community. People in Second Lifefall in love (very seriously, and sometimes traumatically) all thetime, which would seem to suggest that theres a lot more to love thanpheromones. Tothat extent, Second Life avatars can either amplify or distort ourperception of who the person we love "really" is, depending on a hostof factors. MORE
October 11, 2007 Second Life as a Platform for Virtual Meetings and Distance Learning Programs N extmonth Im participating in a fireside chat on the future of educationwith a group of leading thinkers on the subject from around the world-- in Second Life. But it doesnt takelong to learn that you can no more keep the appearance you firstentered Second Life with than you can keep the appearance you firstentered real life with. MORE
A round table event in the Community Capers site in Second Life (one day week of July 27-31). Through this blog we will hear about communities from a number of perspectives. I will relate my research perspective, we will meet the community managers and members, take field trip to each community and have several opportunities to listen to you the audience open up issues and reflect on each community’s strength and value to the field. MORE
BLOG Why I Love Second Life. This is a reworking of a private article I wrote a while ago for my Second Life colleagues. sponsor and belong to an Intentional Community in Second Life, an island that is so realistic and so beautiful that we have had film crews use it as a setting for animated productions. So I spend my 'real' life, as much as possible, practicing doing these eleven things. MORE
These two articles struck me as interesting because they discuss requiring people to use Facebook or Second Life in order to perform in classes or on the job. Tags: social networking Digest Virtual Worlds Collaboration technology communication facebook Internet privacy Second Life social media This week I have run across some very interesting articles on social media and how their use is evolving. MORE
The scenes are entirely browser based so there is no download like for other virtual worlds such as Second Life. Tags: online communities avatar virtual world email social networking Second Life facebook Digest blogs virtual worlds What: New York Times article about Vivaty’s 3-D virtual scenes for web pages. Posts it is related to: The Future of Virtual Teams: Collaboration in 3D Web. MORE
October 7, 2007 Sunday Open Thread -- October 7, 2007 Me in Second Life. Second Life as a Platform for Videoconferencing and Distance Learning: Im part of an upcoming forum on the future of education -- the forum is being held in the virtual reality environment Second Life.After just an hour there, I can already appreciate why it has suchenthusiasts, and how it might revolutionize videoconferencing anddistance learning. MORE
So I was having a coffee with the ever-engaging Anne Bartlett-Bragg and we were talking about Second Life. second life virtual worlds learningNeither of us are fans (bah humbug) but ABB outlined an interesting experience she had whilst teaching a bunch tradespeople to be trainers. She tried her damnest to pitch the Web 2.0 stuff (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc) and got a big yawn. So she showed them SL and they loved it. What they used it for was quite specific. MORE
I suspect that most of the developers that work at Second Life have a background in games. Which is problem because SL is currently too gamer. In game design, you can't make things too easy otherwise you lose the players. There is an optimal level of difficulty and it is not zero. Except that for SL it should be zero - if it wants to attract non-gamers (i.e. I am tired of bumping into walls. I am tired of not knowing how to get off the freakin' beginners' island. MORE
What was different about this session from other sessions at the annual meeting was that it was held simultaneously in Second Life and the hotel in Chicago. They also had avatars in Second Life in the meeting room there. The other panelist joined the meeting via Second Life with his avatar. Power point slides that the panelists used were shown through Second Life, so attendees in SL could see the slides in the meeting room there. MORE
World of Warcraft and Second Life (5). Tourism Australia There’s Nothing Like… A Western Australia Tourism campaign called A Real Australian… ( from exactly 4 years ago ). In 2006, Western Australia’s Postcard campaign. So cute. MORE
June 6, 2008 Blogroll Updated King Parrot by Boron Homewood, from our Second Life Intentional Communitys art gallery. Increasingly,Im using IM, Skype, Second Life and other real-time conversationalsocial networking tools to communicate, more than blogs, so there arentbloglinks for all of the people on the lists. Dave Pollard on the art and science of Weblogging. MORE
June 6, 2008 Blogroll Updated King Parrot by Boron Homewood, from our Second Life Intentional Communitys art gallery. Increasingly,Im using IM, Skype, Second Life and other real-time conversationalsocial networking tools to communicate, more than blogs, so there arentbloglinks for all of the people on the lists. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. MORE
I met my husband in Second Life in 2007. So we developed and grew a relationship using online and mobile tools like Skype and Picassa, and virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft in between our opportunities to visit. The second study focused on using online tools for leadership development. In this study, a comparison was made between using Second Life and WebEx for delivering some basic leadership training materials and activities. MORE
www.straitsknowledge.com blog articles how-to guides events publications book videos about Walk-in Taxonomies Rex Heer at Iowa State University has been playing with building three dimensional models in Second Life. MORE
No it’s not Stepford, nor some other Sci-Fi town but the very real Islands of Jokaydia in Second Life. Joanna Kay opened her spaces in Second Life in November 2007 with leasehold areas offered to other educators to support the cost of the then one sim. MORE
The report provides some research from Second Life about cocreation activities. A good number of people on Second Life are actually involved in cocreation activities and it seems more would if they know about the possibilities. However, it think efforts like Cisco I-Prize that do not require undergoing the entrance requirements that Second Life requires, will reach a large audience. MORE
The most recognizable being World of Warcraft (WoW) and Second Life (SL). I guarantee you’ll watch a second time. Although I am not a gamer, I have explored Second Life , a virtual world and collaboration platform finding that the learning curve is initially steep. MORE
I nthe virtual world Second Life, there are people who are there to playbeing someone theyre not, and other people who are trying to beauthentic. Then there are the many who act, and speak, in chat and voice,just like who they are in real life, except better looking. The role-players shrug off accusations of inauthenticityfrom realists as anal, puritan and self-important, insisting thatSecond Life is just a game -- harmless fun. MORE
Technorati Tags: AFTRS , Assassin's Creed , Eve Online , Half-LIfe , LAMP , machinima , Neverwinter Nights , PS3 Home , second life , The Sims , world of warcraft. MORE
Second Life has been in the news again recently. Second Life is looking to corporate participation as a key element in their future business (see this CNET article ). When Second Life first came out, businesses jumped in hoping to take advantage of opportunities for marketing, collaboration, and other potential business uses of the virtual world. MORE
Not only have they developed their reflective practice in areas such as collection development or research support, they’ve cooked up new directions for innovation, such as virtual reference or uses of Second Life. MORE
This week I came across an advertisement that goes one step further - it suggests that a person should have an email address that their Second Life avatar can take with them into Real Life. LindenPost.com is now offering email accounts that are tailored to people’s double identities in the “real&# world and Second Life. This is compelling because the language of the LindenPost ad is a departure from most of what we read about Second Life. MORE
Participate virtually in the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life (slurl to location in Second Life): [link] You can see a step-by-step guide for how to participate in Second Life. MORE
Second Life Related Topics Community Capers
AUGUST 31, 2009
The first of these spotlighted communities will be Jokaydia a CoP that has its home base in Second Life but impacts on the professional lives of its members well beyond that environment. link] (for Second Life).
Community Capers
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
No it’s not Stepford, nor some other Sci-Fi town but the very real Islands of Jokaydia in Second Life. Joanna Kay opened her spaces in Second Life in November 2007 with leasehold areas offered to other educators to support the cost of the then one sim.
Community Capers
JULY 6, 2008
A round table event in the Community Capers site in Second Life (one day week of July 27-31). Through this blog we will hear about communities from a number of perspectives. I will relate my research perspective, we will meet the community managers and members, take field trip to each community and have several opportunities to listen to you the audience open up issues and reflect on each community’s strength and value to the field.
Community Capers
APRIL 18, 2008
sit in a round table conversation in the Community Capers Second Life site. Community Capers is a place to showcase and case study some of the most successful online communities out there. Each month we will focus on an issue of community development and a community of practice that demonstrates a highly effective way to address that issue. Each month we will: present a community case story. hear from guest bloggers from the spotlighted community.
Joitske Hulsebosch
MARCH 11, 2008
I've never spent time to understand or experiment with Second Life. When I was checking feebs (Dutch site with videos for quote "ICT-ers and professionals" - so ICT-ers are NOT professionals :) I found this tutorial for Second Life by Thorley Linden. Besides using it as tutorial you can use it to get some feel of how it is to walk in second life with an avatar. I also read a book by the writer Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer about his experiences in Second Life.
The Bumble Bee
JULY 29, 2009
I believe that products like Second Life could provide powerful immersive platforms to link together web applications (eg via web services) in much more engaging ways for various collaborative group applications such as team games and business simulations.
Leading Virtually
APRIL 11, 2009
Second Life has been in the news again recently. Second Life is looking to corporate participation as a key element in their future business (see this CNET article ). When Second Life first came out, businesses jumped in hoping to take advantage of opportunities for marketing, collaboration, and other potential business uses of the virtual world.
How to Save the World
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
BLOG Why I Love Second Life. This is a reworking of a private article I wrote a while ago for my Second Life colleagues. sponsor and belong to an Intentional Community in Second Life, an island that is so realistic and so beautiful that we have had film crews use it as a setting for animated productions. So I spend my 'real' life, as much as possible, practicing doing these eleven things.
Engineers without Fears
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
So I was having a coffee with the ever-engaging Anne Bartlett-Bragg and we were talking about Second Life. second life virtual worlds learningNeither of us are fans (bah humbug) but ABB outlined an interesting experience she had whilst teaching a bunch tradespeople to be trainers. She tried her damnest to pitch the Web 2.0 stuff (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc) and got a big yawn. So she showed them SL and they loved it. What they used it for was quite specific.
Engineers without Fears
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
I suspect that most of the developers that work at Second Life have a background in games. Which is problem because SL is currently too gamer. In game design, you can't make things too easy otherwise you lose the players. There is an optimal level of difficulty and it is not zero. Except that for SL it should be zero - if it wants to attract non-gamers (i.e. I am tired of bumping into walls. I am tired of not knowing how to get off the freakin' beginners' island.
Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy
JUNE 28, 2009
The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I’ve been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia. Burning Books and Websites PIC: BookShopBlog.
Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy
MAY 19, 2009
Technorati Tags: AFTRS , Assassin's Creed , Eve Online , Half-LIfe , LAMP , machinima , Neverwinter Nights , PS3 Home , second life , The Sims , world of warcraft.
Green Chameleon
JUNE 8, 2008
www.straitsknowledge.com blog articles how-to guides events publications book videos about Walk-in Taxonomies Rex Heer at Iowa State University has been playing with building three dimensional models in Second Life.
Leading Virtually
AUGUST 14, 2009
Tags: Research Virtual Worlds Collaboration technology avatar collaboration communication identity instant messaging leadership relationships satisfaction Second Life virtual team virtual teams virtual world virtual worlds
Leading Virtually
AUGUST 25, 2009
What was different about this session from other sessions at the annual meeting was that it was held simultaneously in Second Life and the hotel in Chicago. They also had avatars in Second Life in the meeting room there. The other panelist joined the meeting via Second Life with his avatar. Power point slides that the panelists used were shown through Second Life, so attendees in SL could see the slides in the meeting room there.
How to Save the World
JANUARY 16, 2008
Our fledgling Intentional Community in Second Life. Y esterdayMia, the woman with whom Im creating an experimental IntentionalCommunity in Second Life, and I, and our friend Mich, had a longconversation,using Second Lifes voice-to-voice facility, about the nature of newsocial media, and about when each is appropriate, and about thechallenges oftransitioning from one medium to another.
Leading Virtually
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
These two articles struck me as interesting because they discuss requiring people to use Facebook or Second Life in order to perform in classes or on the job. Tags: social networking Digest Virtual Worlds Collaboration technology communication facebook Internet privacy Second Life social media This week I have run across some very interesting articles on social media and how their use is evolving.
Leading Virtually
MARCH 24, 2009
I had an interesting experience recently that reminded me of Surinder’s post on what he sees as some negative trends in email communication, only this experience happened in Second Life. Mike immediately told me that he was demonstrating Second Life to a class of about 25 students, who were not there in avatar form but I can assume were watching our interaction on a screen.
How to Save the World
DECEMBER 7, 2009
L astevening I had an astonishing discussion with three of my colleagues inour Second Life community. People in Second Lifefall in love (very seriously, and sometimes traumatically) all thetime, which would seem to suggest that theres a lot more to love thanpheromones. Tothat extent, Second Life avatars can either amplify or distort ourperception of who the person we love "really" is, depending on a hostof factors.
How to Save the World
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Why I Love Second Life BLOG Why I Love SecondLife (Thisis a reworking of a private article I wrote a while ago for my SecondLife colleagues. I sponsor and belong toan Intentional Community in Second Life, an island that is so realisticand so beautiful that we have had film crews use it as asetting for animated productions. So I spend my real life, asmuch as possible, practicing doing these eleven things.
Leading Virtually
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
An example would be the use of rooms that look just like real world classrooms with avatars giving students power point presentations as a way to use Second Life for teaching. Christian Wagner of City University of Hong Kong discussed how he uses Second Life to educate his business students studying global business and innovation. Students must form teams, design and execute a business idea that takes advantage of the unique culture of Second Life.
Leading Virtually
MARCH 5, 2009
This week I came across an advertisement that goes one step further - it suggests that a person should have an email address that their Second Life avatar can take with them into Real Life. LindenPost.com is now offering email accounts that are tailored to people’s double identities in the “real&# world and Second Life. This is compelling because the language of the LindenPost ad is a departure from most of what we read about Second Life.
Leading Virtually
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
Tags: Research Virtual Worlds avatar Teamwork building social relationships virtual team instant messaging Leadership virtual worlds leadership virtual world communication virtual teams Second Life ice-breaker Collaboration Collaboration technology
How to Save the World
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Walking Away BLOG Walking Away Photoby Second Life artist Nevar Whitfield S everalof you gave me a hard time over my article on co-ops, specificallybecause I said I wouldnt personally be part of the co-op movement. But this weary body andtired heart will be elsewhere, living a life of modest joy. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.
Leading Virtually
JANUARY 2, 2009
The scenes are entirely browser based so there is no download like for other virtual worlds such as Second Life. Tags: online communities avatar virtual world email social networking Second Life facebook Digest blogs virtual worlds What: New York Times article about Vivaty’s 3-D virtual scenes for web pages. Posts it is related to: The Future of Virtual Teams: Collaboration in 3D Web.
How to Save the World
AUGUST 4, 2008
I nthe virtual world Second Life, there are people who are there to playbeing someone theyre not, and other people who are trying to beauthentic. Then there are the many who act, and speak, in chat and voice,just like who they are in real life, except better looking. The role-players shrug off accusations of inauthenticityfrom realists as anal, puritan and self-important, insisting thatSecond Life is just a game -- harmless fun.
How to Save the World
OCTOBER 11, 2007
October 11, 2007 Second Life as a Platform for Virtual Meetings and Distance Learning Programs N extmonth Im participating in a fireside chat on the future of educationwith a group of leading thinkers on the subject from around the world-- in Second Life. But it doesnt takelong to learn that you can no more keep the appearance you firstentered Second Life with than you can keep the appearance you firstentered real life with.
How to Save the World
JUNE 6, 2008
June 6, 2008 Blogroll Updated King Parrot by Boron Homewood, from our Second Life Intentional Communitys art gallery. Increasingly,Im using IM, Skype, Second Life and other real-time conversationalsocial networking tools to communicate, more than blogs, so there arentbloglinks for all of the people on the lists. Dave Pollard on the art and science of Weblogging.
How to Save the World
JUNE 6, 2008
June 6, 2008 Blogroll Updated King Parrot by Boron Homewood, from our Second Life Intentional Communitys art gallery. Increasingly,Im using IM, Skype, Second Life and other real-time conversationalsocial networking tools to communicate, more than blogs, so there arentbloglinks for all of the people on the lists. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.
How to Save the World
NOVEMBER 1, 2007
But none seems as important right now as what I wrote aboutyesterday -- my quest to employ Second Life as a testing ground tocreate a working model of Intentional Community. What is strange to me is that I no longer feel inclinedto create an Intentional Community in Real Life. The history ofIntentional Community Success in Real Life is not great, and fear offailure is very human. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.
How to Save the World
FEBRUARY 9, 2008
My Second Life partner-in-crime Mia asks whether what men and women expect and demand from love is different , and if that affects how they relate in community. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. February 9, 2008 Saturday Links of the Week -- February 9, 2008 and you thought you had a lot of snow.
How to Save the World
NOVEMBER 3, 2007
November 3, 2007 Saturday Links for the Week -- November 3, 2007 -- The Hopeful Edition M aybethe press is just weary of reporting bad news, or maybe its thegiddiness of sleep-deprivation from spending so much time with my newfriends in Second Life, but the news this week seems, well. Bee invited me to Thursdays Second Life conference oneducation, where I met Nancy. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.
How to Save the World
OCTOBER 7, 2007
October 7, 2007 Sunday Open Thread -- October 7, 2007 Me in Second Life. Second Life as a Platform for Videoconferencing and Distance Learning: Im part of an upcoming forum on the future of education -- the forum is being held in the virtual reality environment Second Life.After just an hour there, I can already appreciate why it has suchenthusiasts, and how it might revolutionize videoconferencing anddistance learning.
How to Save the World
NOVEMBER 18, 2007
November 18, 2007 Sunday Open Thread -- November 18, 2007 Image by Christer Rosewell What Im Thinking of Writing (and Podcasting) About Soon: Principles of Natural Polyamorous Community: Ivefound a remarkable woman in Second Life (or rather, weve found eachother) who shares my vision for creating an intentional polyamorouscommunity (we actually share a lot more). And I thought my life couldnt get any better!
How to Save the World
OCTOBER 30, 2007
It breaks my heart to do so, because its a lovely andextraordinary little story, written in real time by two real people ina world that is in some ways more real than anything that could happenin real life. Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. October 30, 2007 Vignette #6: A Little Romance I have been asked to take this storydown.
Online Community Strategy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Participate virtually in the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life (slurl to location in Second Life): [link] You can see a step-by-step guide for how to participate in Second Life.
Michael Sampson - Currents
MAY 25, 2009
Document Collaboration in Second Life. Tom talks about the possibilities of document collaboration in Second Life. " Did you know you can also collaborate on documents in Second Life? Here's a great video on EtherPad Real Time in World Text Collaboration from the Second Life English Blog. Central Desktop Shared Folders. Central Desktop is adding a Shared Folders feature to its online collaborative workspace service.
21st Century Organization
MAY 31, 2010
The most recognizable being World of Warcraft (WoW) and Second Life (SL). I guarantee you’ll watch a second time. Although I am not a gamer, I have explored Second Life , a virtual world and collaboration platform finding that the learning curve is initially steep.
Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy
NOVEMBER 22, 2009
Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video). 2 video uploads each month (90 seconds max, 150MB per video). You can see the Second Life growth charts here.
Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy
MARCH 30, 2010
World of Warcraft and Second Life (5). Tourism Australia There’s Nothing Like… A Western Australia Tourism campaign called A Real Australian… ( from exactly 4 years ago ). In 2006, Western Australia’s Postcard campaign. So cute.
Green Chameleon
AUGUST 2, 2008
The report provides some research from Second Life about cocreation activities. A good number of people on Second Life are actually involved in cocreation activities and it seems more would if they know about the possibilities. However, it think efforts like Cisco I-Prize that do not require undergoing the entrance requirements that Second Life requires, will reach a large audience.
Learning Alliances
AUGUST 22, 2008
Not only have they developed their reflective practice in areas such as collection development or research support, they’ve cooked up new directions for innovation, such as virtual reference or uses of Second Life.
Leading Virtually
JANUARY 28, 2011
I met my husband in Second Life in 2007. So we developed and grew a relationship using online and mobile tools like Skype and Picassa, and virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft in between our opportunities to visit. The second study focused on using online tools for leadership development. In this study, a comparison was made between using Second Life and WebEx for delivering some basic leadership training materials and activities.
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