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Okay, so I’ve just spent the better part of four hours mucking about in Second Life.
I can only call it ‘mucking about’ because so much of it is about finding my way around, finding help, finding mentors, and very little about meeting the objectives I had in the first place.
I still can’t find the help I need, although there is no shortage of mentors around, especially at the very friendly ‘The Shelter’ – an amazing resource and thank you to the must-read resource Second Life Insider for pointing it out.
Inside The Shelter (where I spent a good 45 minutes picking up mostly un-necessary freebies (see pxp on how to organise them once you have a gazillion and don’t remember what is what) and learning how to dance in syncopation (great fun!)) I also found the phenomenal newsletter the Metaverse Messenger, which at 22 pages is a damn fine read!
But I am *still* underwhelmed.
I know that many have commented about the business comms applications of SL (Second Life) — Neville is just one of them — and I know that I have commented before about how we, as business communicators, need to ‘be across’ SL, but I am still to be convinced that for SOHOs or medium sized professional service businesses this is a viable investment of time.
I have not yet found any property to purchase for a residential home, I have not yet found a suitable office location for my business interests (after all, there is no point setting up shop where there is no footfall, is there?), I have yet to find a compelling reason to invest lots and lots of hours here. I can’t even find the FIR presence on the podcasters island.
I know that in an earlier post I waxed lyrical about how a current client of mine could definitely benefit from the ‘training ground’ potential of this medium. I still hold to that belief. But the hours of investment to even get a presence on SL make me wonder if my time is better spent dealing in current issues (both face to face and social media like blogs and podcasts) rather than being a pioneer in a new frontier.
After all, how many of the early pioneers in any country do we remember, as distinct from the savvy second or third tier who followed behind their trail-blazing efforts and capitalised on the path-smoothening activities of those who sacrificed their livelihoods before them…
Do I really want to spend potentially US$30+ a month to be ahead of the pack, knowing that the ROI is still potentially two years down the track?
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