secondlife – Amy Sample Ward https://amysampleward.org Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:27:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://amysampleward.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-ASW-Purple-Wall-32x32.png secondlife – Amy Sample Ward https://amysampleward.org 32 32 BlogHer08: The Second Life Experience https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/22/blogher08-the-second-life-experience/ https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/22/blogher08-the-second-life-experience/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:27:31 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=234 Continue readingBlogHer08: The Second Life Experience]]> This week I’m filling in for Britt Bravo on the Net Squared community blog.  I just posted there with some of my thoughts about using Second Life for conferences.  Check it out!

This was my first conference in Second Life and I really learned a lot.  What makes Second Life such a unique option for conference organizers is how much of the face-to-face nature of in-person conferences can be replicated. The biggest ones to me were:

  • I can SEE you!
  • I can TALK to you!
  • I can FIND you!

Have you used Second Life to attend a conference or event? Have you participated in any of the free weekly meetings from the Nonprofit Commons? What advice do you have for organizations and individuals exploring this new tool?

Check out the full article on the Net Squared community blog and let me know what you think!

]]> https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/22/blogher08-the-second-life-experience/feed/ 1 Liveblogging from BlogHer in Second Life: Using SL for Good https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/19/liveblogging-from-blogher-in-second-life-using-sl-for-good/ https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/19/liveblogging-from-blogher-in-second-life-using-sl-for-good/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:41:03 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=230 Continue readingLiveblogging from BlogHer in Second Life: Using SL for Good]]> The BlogHer session on Using Second Life for Good takes place this afternoon live in the BlogHer Second Life conference area.  You don’t have to be in SL to participate though!  Just watch here for the live blogging from CoverItLive by clicking on the link below.  This will allow you to see the minute by minute updates as well as comment or ask questions.  I hope you’ll follow along!

Click here to read and participate in the live blogging (and for the archive)!

]]> https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/19/liveblogging-from-blogher-in-second-life-using-sl-for-good/feed/ 2 Liveblogging from BlogHer in Second Life: SL as Educational/Training Tool https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/19/liveblogging-from-blogher-in-second-life-sl-as-educationaltraining-tool/ https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/19/liveblogging-from-blogher-in-second-life-sl-as-educationaltraining-tool/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:35:30 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=229 Continue readingLiveblogging from BlogHer in Second Life: SL as Educational/Training Tool]]> The Second Life as Education/Training Tool session features:

  • Padlurowncanoe Dibou, formerly in charge of Hillary Clinton’s in-world HQ and co-Founder of MUVErs, LLC
  • In Kenzo (aka Evonne Heyning, Creative Director and Interactive Producer for Amoration)
  • Fleep Tuque (aka Chris Collins from the University of Cincinnati)
  • Dannette Veale (from Cisco)

To watch and participate in the live blog, click here!

]]> https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/19/liveblogging-from-blogher-in-second-life-sl-as-educationaltraining-tool/feed/ 3 BlogHer in Second Life – Here we go! https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/19/blogher-in-second-life-here-we-go/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:25:22 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=228 Continue readingBlogHer in Second Life – Here we go!]]> Yesterday and today the BlogHer conference is taking place in San Francisco.  I wish I could be there as so, so many wonderful women (and men) have come together.  But, I can be there virtually for some exclusives panels and the keynotes via Second Life!

This is my first conference I’m attending in Second Life so I hope it is going to be a good, quality learning experience.  I will share thoughts about using Second Life in this way after the conference.  Today though you will be able to follow along with two live blog sessions using CoverItLive to enable you to jump in and comment or ask questions and see the comments as they unfold.  So, stick around!

The archives will be available from the live blog sessions as well.

]]> Where can you find BlogHer without going to the conference? https://amysampleward.org/2008/07/15/where-can-you-find-blogher-without-going-to-the-conference/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:48:26 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=226 Continue readingWhere can you find BlogHer without going to the conference?]]> Right here!

This Friday – Sunday is the annual BlogHer conference, taking place in San Francisco.  “BlogHer’s annual conference is like no other — it is the thrilling diversity of the blogosphere come to life! Featuring technical labs, educational workshops, intense discussion sessions, relevant sponsors, speakers from every corner of the blogosphere, established and new, and plenty of opportunities to network and socialize.”

Unfortunately, I can’t make it to San Fran for the conference.  BUT! I can make it all the way to my computer and into Second Life!  What’s Second Life? It is an “online, 3D virtual world imagined and created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe.”

The BlogHer conference will have simultaneous events taking place ‘off-line’ and online in Second Life.  I will be attending events throughout the conference via my virtual Second Life self. Are you attending it on or offline?

I will be live blogging from within Second Life – so you can follow along with me, ask questions and leave comments in real time whether you are in Second Life, at the conference, or sitting back at home.

All you have to do to be included is watch this blog!  The live blogging (with CoverItLive) will be hosted here.  I’m excited to share with you all the experience of attending this conference virtually, as well as getting participation from you while I’m there!

Other BlogHer folks will also be live blogging and commentating on the events throughout the three days on the BlogHer website.

Have you attended a conference in Second Life before?  Has your organization considered using Second Life as part of its social media strategy?

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