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  Second Life News for May 17, 2008

  http://thegridlive.com/2008/05/17/second-life-news-for-may-1...
  68 days ago in The Grid Live · Authority: 56

  Second Life News for May 17, 2008 From: torley linden How I dealt with technical challenges behind Second Life video tutorial production Quote from the site - Second Life poses some unique hurdles to make video tutorials for. I want to share my experiences in hopes it’ll benefit someone(s) who’s interested in making SL vidtuts but has run into the same obstacles I have. And if you’ve never seen one of my vidtuts before, watch and learn something valuable in just a few minutes! From: oneclimate.net Smart Buildings Today (May 14) in Second Life Quote from the site - The Serious Games Institute is holding a virtual seminar today both in the SGI at Coventry University and in their virtual auditorium in Second Life. From: business 360 A second act for Second Life? Quote from the site - Call them growing pains. The virtual world Second Life has had a tough time of it lately. Last month, its founder Philip Rosedale said he will step down as CEO of Linden Labs - the company which runs the community. He said he was staying on full-time as chairman preferring to focus on innovation rather than people management. From: Virtual Africa Respecting Land Owners in Second Life… Quote from the site - Have you spoken to a few owners of virtual land in Second Life (R) the past month or two? In developing a new media strategy and virtual world presence, we follow the trends as closely as possible, and it is with some distress and a pinch of interest that we listen to the discontent of land owners. Prices of private islands (sims) have been slashed by Linden Lab. From: The Anglican Church in Second Life What do you want from a church in SL? Quote from the site - The following is a report of the group discussion that occurred last Saturday, revolving around the general topic of “Being Christian In Second Life.” These discussions happen every Saturday at 11 a.m. SLT, at the benches in front of the Parish House. All are welcome to attend! Arundel Dragonash, who co-moderates these discussions (along with Joyous Schism) prepared the following summary. From: Second Life, First Person Self Jealousy Quote from the site - Are you jealous of your Second Self? That’s the question that a recent post by Dandellion Kimban implores us to ponder as we muddle through this grand experiment in dual identities that is Second Life. From: Fast Wonder Jeska Dzwigalski on Second Life at Community 2.0 Quote from the site - Here are my notes from Jeska’s presentation at community 2.0. In other words, these are my interpretations of her words (not my words), and she talks pretty fast, so I might have some typos or other errors. From: California Library Association CLA Second Life Q & A Panel Quote from the site - So you have conducted library orientation for many years. You have taught a one credit class for freshmen in information literacy. You have responded when professors wanted you to teach reference or database tools to their classes. These traditional approaches to information literacy are now eclipsed by users who just ignore the library and Google it. From: No there there Pursuing a solution for printing a notecard in realXtend Quote from the site - I have a list of things I consider essential functionality for a knowledge worker in a virtual world like Second Life or realXtend. One of the items on the top of the list is printing a notecard. The lack of printing functionality was reported a year ago in the Linden Lab JIRA database (VWR-391), but it has been a low priority bug because there is a workaround - copy all the text on the notecard, paste it into your favorite text editor outside Second Life and print it from there. It’s about as clunky as the machine below. From: Orient Lodge Second Life Parallel Processes Quote from the site - I spend two days away from my computer and come back to over 2000 unread email messages and several interesting discussions. Last year, Gartner, “the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company”, predicted that 80 Percent of Active Internet Users Will Have A “Second Life” in the Virtual World by the End of 2011. From: Wall Street Journal Businesses Take Their Avatars and Go Home Quote from the site - Ninety percent of forays by businesses into virtual worlds–animated online communities where people can do things they do in the real world (and some things they wouldn’t)–fail within 18 months. That’s according to the tech researchers at the Gartner Group, although we could have told you the same thing, if not with a specific statistic. From: The Huffington Post Second Life Gets Its Virtual Auteur: Douglas Gayeton and Molotov Alva Quote from the site - Second Life now has is own film auteur. He is Douglas Gayeton; and his movie, debuting tonight May 15 as a half hour on Cinemax Reel Life, is Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator” –a unique and ground-breaking kind of documentary about Second Life, from HBO Documentary Films, constructed entirely as a sequence of dispatches from the online virtual world it’s portraying. From: Wall Street Journal My Virtual Summer Job Quote from the site - With summer jobs in short supply, more young people are pursuing money-making opportunities in Web fantasy worlds. Alexandra Alter on the new online workers. (more…)
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  Building on Community 2.0

  http://community20.blogspot.com/2008/05/building-on-communit...
  70 days ago in Community 2.0 · Authority: 12

  These past few days we have delivered a day-by-day playbook on Community 2.0, gathering insights from the event and around the web. Now that the Community 2.0 Conference has come to an end, here are a couple of more resources and post/pre reactions from the c2.0 event that you might find valuable even if you weren’t able to attend the event. Francois Gossieaux has this post on the Beeline Labs blog on his observations of the event from his opening workshop on Monday. Dawn Foster from the Fast Wonder Blog, shares her notes on the conference on these posts: Chris Messina on DiSo at Community 2.0 Jeska Dzwigalski on Second Life at Community 2.0 Shel Israel at Community 2.0 KD Paine’s post on the KDPaine’s PR Measurement Blog: What a difference a year makes in social media Janet Lee Johnson’s post: Blown Away by ChocoNancy (@NancyWhite) This post on Joho the Blog! Conversational business The Otter Group’s post: Community 2.0 Boot Camp: Social Media Playbook Kevin O’ Keefe’s post on Lexblog: Real Lawyers Have Blogs: Presenting at Community 2.0 in Las Vegas on Wednesday This article on the Online Community Report: OpenID: What will it take to make it mainstream? Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, has uploaded this presentation from the conference on Slideshare.net on the importance of “building a brand”. | View | Upload your own As always we’ll be posting regular updates as we come across them, but feel free to share any observations/thoughts that might have struck you on the c2.0 event.

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