Second Life - first impressions part two
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Okay, I’ve had another crack at Second Life. I’ve taken the plunge and left Help Island, never to be able to return again (of course, there is the ubiquitous F1 key).
What has impressed me so far is the amount of ‘live’ assistance I saw on Help Island — no shortage of mentors there hanging out and eager to be… well, helpful. That was encouraging. So I teleported off to somewhere unbeknownst and am immediately underwhelmed.
No sooner do I find a nice bit of land where maybe I could set up a home than a monstrosity of a house gets built. I fly off and scour an ever-increasing landmass where no sooner does land suddenly appear than a whopping great house is being built. I have no idea of how I am going to find a little patch of earth to call my own, nor a little patch of land where my humble house is not going to be dwarfed by a monstrously ugly techno castle being constructed next to it.
So, too, am I so far clueless about how to set up a business, or find any businesses I know already exist in SL. However, I have no doubt that all will be revealed in the fullness of time.
Shelville, in response to Rob Safuto’s audio commentary on FIR 153, made interesting points about the increasing number of businesses, both large and small, from the FL (First Life) being present in SL. Firstly, I am humbled that someone somewhere had the ability to ’sell’ the idea of investing dollars and many many hours to their management on what management no doubt saw as ‘a game’ (it’s most assuredly not — there is no objective and no winner). I am finding it hard going to sell blogging to clients; selling SL to them is a huge ask!
I know that one of my clients could potentially see immediate benefits from it (as a practice area for some FL activity exceedingly similar), but the time commitment to establish a presence there, learn how to interact with others and promote itself is large — someone has to pay for the time for someone to be ‘in’ SL.
Rob Safuto is obviously (at the moment) not going to spend the hours, and for very good reasons. But with more and more businesses setting up ’shop’ in SL, I fear I cannot avoid becoming more immersed in it. Who needs sleep? What family?
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