The Comms Cafe finds a new home in Second Life
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There are many reasons to ignore Second Life:
- It wastes many, many hours
- It is mind numbingly slow
- It is only for geeks and those who ‘need to get a life’
- It will never take off
Mind you, those were all claims rendered at the WorldWideWeb by business and consumers, if I seem to remember correctly when I first became involved with the internet in 1994.
Now the WorldWideWeb (or “WorldWideWait”, depending on your connection) is a fundamental part of business life, both for marketing and for internal knowledge management.
So too will Second Life, or a derivative thereof become for business (perhaps ‘Second Business Life’ without the sexual and/or animalistic avatars).
As part of the exploration of the possibilities, limitations and confabulations of Second Life, your fearless correspondent has braved the digital elements (and real life anger of wife, kith and kin) to find out what ‘works’ for businesses and what doesn’t.
Is it a ‘moving target’? Absolutely! Today’s healthy spring lamb is tomorrow’s main meal.
But there are lessons to be learnt from the foray into an all-digital domain - especially since my friends Shel and Neville seem to have disappeared from Second Life (their ’stall’ where they touted their wares has disappeared). Nothing moves so fast as a digital pixel and presence, it seems. Hence the requirement to ’stay on top’ of what may well turn out to be the most significant business tool of 2006-2008 (now that terrorists have buggered the pan-global business traveller who uses or flies in/out of any US/UK airport).
Therefore, the pan-global franchise that is the Better Desirable Roasted Communications Cafe has moved location within Second Life to its own land-based home.
The apartment we were previously housed in was lovely and had glorious views at sunset (if you like empty landscapes). But there were various ‘objects’ (’prims’ is the technical term) and various other ’search’ functionality that wouldn’t work on someone else’s land. Hence the move to a ‘place of our own’.
Of course, being the eclectics and disestablishmentarianists that Allan and I are, we couldn’t tolerate something merely ‘normal’.
A lighthouse therefore seems the only suitable new home for our Second Life cafe. It may be somewhat ’smaller’ than our previous apartment, but it comes with many of the benefits that being a landowner brings, including being able to be ‘found’ in the Second Life search engines (”commscafe”), plus in-world/out-world linking working properly (if you visit our lighthouse, you can click on a computer screen and hear our latest chat).
Please avail yourself of the following images of our new, bijou home. We’ve run out of room to put any more furniture or ‘goodies’ so you will have to make do until we decide to invest in the mega L$ that C.C. Chapman has (a fellow marcomms blogger/podcaster and all-round good fellow). And if you doubt the ability of Second Life to bring the ‘real’ world into the digital world, read about Amazon.com and how they are trying to bring the two together…
Should you wish to visit the new Comms Cafe home in Second Life for yourself, and perhaps leave us a message if we are (rudely) not there to greet you, please either enter ‘leehopkins.name’ or ‘commscafe.net’ into your browser and be transported to a world within a world. A world, let us not forget, where we can be who we choose to be, not who others see us to be, and where there are not yet any income and tax restrictions… (that makes you think, doesn’t it?!?!? - Ask Allan Jenkins what some commentators and worldy-wise folks are saying about that little secret)
Want to know more about Second Life? I have posted about Second Life on quite a few posts. But before you think of dropping in on Allan and I unannounced (because I know you wouldn’t dream of doing so in the ‘Real World’), please read C.C. Chapman’s exquisite post on Second Life etiquette.
Kami & Sab - this is Allan’s and my new home…
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