Archive for April, 2007

Isabella and Penny join the CommsCafe team

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I am proud to announce that as of today the Comms Cafe office in Second Life is now graced with the presence of two fantastic new staff.
Isabella Scheflo, a colleague here in Adelaide, [...]

Challenges with the sequential autoresponder

As mentioned previously, I am testing out Xtreeme’s FollowUpXpert autoresponder software.
I have created and populated a new website, NewBookOnAudio.com (free hosting at Directnic to keep costs down), and am awaiting confirmation on affiliate status from suitable companies like Audible. I’ve also created some affilliate linkages to ClickBank products, plus some Brian Tracy audio material.
I have [...]

No casino’s in SL? Is real-world legislation impinging on virtual life?

News from the Linden blog recently that casinos will not be allowed to advertise in SL.

Linden Lab has decided that we will not accept any classified ads, place listings, or event listings that appear to relate to simulated casino activity.
Linden Lab is committed to keeping Second Life a place of openness and opportunity. We plan [...]

Virtual insanity (redux): time is no one’s best friend

One of the ‘pleasures’ of being an early adopter of new things, like blogging and podcasting in the Business Communications community, is that your enthusiasm carries you far further than your body would normally allow.
So, for example, my passion for blogging and podcasting has resulted in my being positioned as one of Australia’s leading PR/Marcomms [...]

Thank God for understanding supervisors!

I am feeling completely overwhelmed by the enormity of my research*; the more I read the more I realise that I have soooo much more to read and understand!
Car troubles and money worries just add to my woes.
Then along comes one of my supervisors:

Lesson 1 Lee: DON’T PANIC!
It always feels immense at the beginning - [...]

Brand Who in Second Life

Full-size, updated version here.
Hat tip to the fabulous Greg Verdino who also, in another post, replays some pearls of wisdom that dropped from the mouths of some pretty clued-up folks — for example:
“If what you want to do in the virtual world can be done on the web, it can probably be done better on [...]

Life without letters

Browsing through Borgmann’s ‘Holding on to reality’* and came across this:
“If we think of information as a relation… …we can hardly fail to notice that in a hypertrophically informed society like ours the SIGN looms large. If all our ledgers, accounts, files, calendars, memos, letters, scores, plans, maps, databases, and other records should suddenly disappear, [...]