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

I don’t know whether it’s a first for blogging conferences, but the ever-innovative people at BlogHer have arranged, in tandem with their BlogHer ‘07 – “A World of Difference” conference in Chicago this July, a virtual world BlogHer in Second Life.

This should be a boon for those who can’t make it to Chicago and are already in Second Life or willing to give it a go.
And from the writeup on the BlogHer site, it looks like being both an informative and fun event:
BlogHer in Second Life will offer the opportunity to experience the Chicago conference live on a virtual platform, …read more

This time next week I’ll be mingling with some top thought leaders, futurists, innovative thinkers, and technology experts from around the world and with staff of the AMP finance and investment company. The occasion is AMP’s week-long Innovation and Thought Leadership Festival 2007.
The Festival is for employees and decision-makers of AMP from all departments and is designed for teams and business units to co-operate across traditional working boundaries. For those who can’t get to the Sydney venue, there are online arrangements, including webcasts and podcasts.
With 3,500 employees, some 1,900 independent planners, AU$122 billion (say US$103 billion) in funds under …read more

Today on the b5media business channel we are looking at the theme “work and play”.
I thought about virtual worlds, such as Second Life.
In an interview with me last December, Debbie Weil, author of The Corporate Blogging Book, asked me if I had tried Second Life. I hadn’t, and the question took me a bit by surprise, because we had been talking about blogging in a business context and here was Debbie asking me about – as I thought – online games with people “dressing up” and playing roles in a virtual world.
Since then I have come to realise that Debbie …read more