Archive for August, 2006

New SL presence for the Cafe

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed (you can even subscribe via email!). Thanks for visiting!There are changes afoot in Second Life… at least around Podcast Island.
The two manager/owners of it are pulling down the Mall (where both FIR and the Cafe have/had a booth) and replacing it [...]

Second Life - moving gently to the mainstream?

Second Life is definitely becoming a ‘hot topic’ around here in the BusComms part of the blogosphere/podosphere, as Neville commented in the latest FIR. Neville’s recent post about Second Life - Reality or Escapism? - has generated a plethora of comments, both positive and negative about SL. So too has my recent post about it; [...]

Business Communicators in Second Life

Linda Zimmer (who, like myself, is a Nobody), has invited me and anyone else interested to join her and some of our other colleagues in an informal discussion group in Second Life.
She has also started a highly readable and informative blog on the subject. It is now in my feedreader.
She notes that the exceptionally fine [...]

Second Life and PR/Marcomms - Neville clearly has it

Neville Hobson has taken Steve Rubel to task over Steve’s recent consideration that Second Life is more escapism than reality (and to which Steve has graciously linked).
As Neville says,
I think Second Life presents an alternative reality - a parallel place, if you will, where you can construct a viable approximation of a real environment [...]