Second Life and a Pub With No Beer
July 26, 2007 by Des Walsh
Filed under Social Media
It’s just on a month ago that I posted here about the virtual BlogHer conference on Second Life, paralleling the First Life version of BlogHer 2007 about to commence in Chicago.
Since then I’ve dropped into Second Life (SL) on a few occasions and spent some time looking around. I keep thinking there must be more to it than I’m seeing, but I wonder.
It’s certainly interesting to see the various venues that have been developed and to go through the experience of “speaking by typing”, through my avatar, with other people’s avatars.
Although so far I’ve mainly found areas which when I …read more
Fortune 500 Blog Project Call for Volunteers
December 10, 2006 by Des Walsh
Filed under Social Media
In a previous post I made a passing reference to the Fortune 500 Blog Project, described on the wiki as follows:
The Fortune 500 Blog Project is an independent, volunteer-driven project to identify and evaluate public-facing corporate blogs owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies. Secondary purposes of this project include finding out to what degree Fortune 500 companies are using internal corporate blogs, and highlighting blogs that discuss Fortune 500 companies.
This ambitious project is maintained by two people who, judging by their blog posts, probably qualify as among the busiest people I know or know of, Easton Ellsworth of Business Blog …read more




