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In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. A visit to the SecondLife Marketplace can help you better understand the concept of shopping for NFTs in the Metaverse.
Remember the homeless avatar in SecondLife that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Rik Riel and Nedra Weinreich also wrote it up and I suspect it probably inspired a few SecondLife Doubter's Club posts. The idea came up when we were talking about SecondLife, and that you start the off without anything.
It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in SecondLife today. I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Except for two things.
(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in SecondLife where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and SecondLife have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. I reserved my seat.
That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in SecondLife, a student project! I've been curious what a virtual Angkor Wat or other cultural wonders of the world look like in SecondLife?
The SecondLife build is a virtual representation of their alternative gift catalogue Communities in remote areas of the world request particular items, say a cow or a pig. There is a chicken animation where your avatar can move around like a chicken. You can to it in SecondLife here.
But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in SecondLife or recently launched. I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in SecondLife. Educate about your cause. Provide Hope.
The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in SecondLife. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in SecondLife. So back to last night's events.
One free service is SecondLife, the most prominent online 3D virtual world where users can meet and socialize using voice and text chat. Last week, we posted a SecondLife review by GreenTech volunteer, Michael Hodges, entitled SecondLife as Alice in Wonderland. Monica is a San Francisco based architect.
And one of these tools is SecondLife , the most prominent online 3D virtual world where users can meet and socialize using voice and text chat for free. We asked GreenTech volunteer Michael Hodges to sign up and try out different things in SecondLife like find the Nonprofit Commons Island and befriend 'avatars' there.
" Griefing can be a problem in SecondLife, although it does not happen at every location all the time. For example, at the BlogHer in SecondLife panels and social events no problems were report as indicated by this report by VintFalken and the Information Literacy Weblog. it's easier to destroy than to create ???
Make A Wish Donation Box in SecondLife On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. In SecondLife, you can build a 3-D display and donation box where avatars can contribute Linden dollars. I had a tip jar in my avatar???s
Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in SecondLife and informal poster session to introduce SecondLife to IA folks. I had skype with a video camera and SecondLife application opened (which kept crashing my computer.)
Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of SecondLife stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in SecondLife to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.
Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in SecondLife. To make life easier the boxes will grow bigger and after about an hour they will disappear. The first level is the secondlife literacy skills - how you move around and communicate.
The reason was because many participants in the room were participating from both SecondLife and the room in San Jose, and they are doing so, in avatar form. The reason was because many participants in the room were participating from both SecondLife and the room in San Jose, and they are doing so, in avatar form.
This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in SecondLife to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in SecondLife , a community space for nonprofits. I am a total SecondLife newbie. I found this SecondLife Basic Help page today which might help.
Attendees can join a tour of the Nonprofit Commons in SecondLife or learn how to use digital storytelling and Facebook for quick and easy updates to keep connected to supporters. Quick tips and tools will be provided on how to get started as well as support for more advanced users.
A photo from this afternoon's protest poster and t-shirt making workshop that is part of RootsCampSL "J27 Events for Peace " Building stuff together in SecondLife is where great learning takes place.The workshop leader was errcheck Hick (you can see his read t-shirt and ponytail in the photo.) He did an excellent job.
This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in SecondLife and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with SecondLife and web interactive experiences for attendees.
Our conversation focused on Facebook, SecondLife, and Skype. The same with SecondLife. Organizations hold meetings on SecondLife, I put on a sexy female avatar with my breasts hanging out, and I'm just accepted. All the guys have learned to use female avatars and personae on the sites.
David and Randy (I've presented with them several times, hugged them, had beers with them, I've even hung out in our Nonprofit Commons in SecondLife virtual island with them, so yes, we are on a first name basis) reminded me that innovation doesn't just happen.
TechSoup's Susan Tenby , Senor Manager--Online Community Development , gave a prepared testimony before the the House Committee on Energy and Commerce' s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on April 1st about the potential of SecondLife. for nonprofits.
That's my SecondLifeavatar). You knew I just had to do this. the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up.
secondlife, ??? but not necessarily in SecondLife, according to Gartner, Inc. Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. Check out the Nonprofits and SecondLife Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side. enterprises) will have a ???
I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in SecondLife and you run into the most fascinating people. Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. and who knows, someone may follow the link and contribute.).
STAND UP Events are happening all over the world, including SecondLife. SecondLife residents who Stand Up will be counted towards the Guinness World Record Attempt. There is a Kiosk in various places in Second Llife, including TechSoup's office at Information Island. You also get a T-Shirt!
At Harvard Law School in real life via the Berkman Center, there was an fascinating discussion tonight called " Legal education in a networked world." You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in SecondLife. " It was moderated by Charles Nesson. no dancing, piano playing or flying.
MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in SecondLife to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in SecondLife and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: SecondLife is a world being built by the people in it.
Jeff replies, "Dad, I spent the morning at my private foundation office in SecondLife where my avatar raised $600 which I then took to donorschoose.org to buy textbooks for a class I adopted." Rick Federn enters his son, Jeff's room. Jeff is on the computer. Rik asks him what he's up to.
On June 22nd at 9:00 AM PST, Jonathan's avatar along with SecondLife CEO Philip Rosedale will lead a discussion with residents on the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. It will be interesting to see if Fanton's avatar looks just like him or something different. MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton.
It's a busy time in SecondLife , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. Got that?)
It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in SecondLife - like the Avatars Against War. Unfortunately, most of the photos are under an "All Rights Reserved" copyright which can be a barrier to spreading them because you have to ask permission. I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license.
Great meeting today at the TechSoup Office in SecondLife! It will be a mixed reality event -- in-world and in "real life" at the Tech Soup Office in SF. Let me tell you, getting all those avatars to look into the camera and smile is even more difficult than trying to get a group shot of a bunch of preschoolers!
These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the SecondLife Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The SecondLife Doubter's Club. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. whenever i???ve
onPhilanthropy: SecondLife Fundraising: Philanthropy Dips its Toe Into Virtual Worlds : "SecondLife Fundraising: Philanthropy Dips its Toe Into Virtual Worlds By: Tom Watson, 07/26/06 Soaring mountains, shimmering seas, futuristic buildings, strange vehicles flying in the air.
TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in SecondLife and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in SecondLife Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.
In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and SecondLife by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that SecondLife is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.
After Frustrations in SecondLife, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in SecondLife—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy.".
Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.
has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or SecondLife to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. Because Yahoo! Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause."
As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring SecondLife and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. We need to establish a presence for our organization in SecondLife,??? ve been exploring SecondLife and avatar marketing ???
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