Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

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Portugal?s Department of Justice launches arbitration centre in Second Life
It?s called e-Justice Centre and it represents a joint project of the Justice Department and Aveiro?s University, which already has a strong presence [...]

Call me slow, but I only just came across this — a roadmap for where the internet is going in the next 20 years.
Sure, some of it is fanciful, but when you consider who the authors and editors are, you get a sense that this may well be what will happen (cataclysmic events not withstanding).
Co-Authors: [...]

Says Sebastian Kupers from within the Facebook group ‘Back to the Metaverse’:
The web3Dcamp is an ad-hoc un-conference in second life. it follows the principles of a barcamp and wants to bring together residents from around the world to discuss and share ideas about the upcoming three dimensional web, virtual worlds … the metaverse et al. [...]

Gary Hayes (Gary Hazlitt in SL) copped some flack a while back for proclaiming BigPond and ABC islands to be ‘big’ players in the SL ecosphere. For those who don’t know, Gary’s TheProjectFactory built both ABC Island and the Pond series of islands.
Now here’s the proof: according to Tateru Nino and as reported by Wagner James [...]

Trethewey, A 1997. ‘Organizational Culture’ in Peggy Y. Byers Ed., Organizational Communication, Boston: Allyn and Bacon pp203-234
She approaches the concept of organisational culture from three perspectives:

culture as a variable (Functionalist; 1940s to mid 1980s)
culture as shared symbols (Interpretative, Social Constructionist; mid 1980s to present)
culture as an oppressive regime (Critical, Marxist? (power relationships are considered, [...]

Introductory chapter to Qualitative Communication Research Methods, 2nd Ed, Lindlof & Taylor, 2002.
My research considers the ‘how’ of an issue — ‘how’ SMEs (Small-Medium sized Enterprises) can gain value out of 3D virtual worlds (and in the current climate, Second Life).
Part of the research I will be undertaking is therefore auto-ethnographic, as I stumble around [...]

Achieving Real Business Growth Through Second Life®Creating a virtual world presence to fast track your brand in the real worldSeptember 25 - 26, 2007 Â·  Thistle Hotel Marble Arch, London, UK
I’d be interested to hear from anyone who goes what their thoughts are after the event…

The CommsCafe has moved.
The US$40/month rent was just too high to sustain, and although the location was beautiful, it was time to find somewhere more economically sustainable for the Comms Cafe consultancy.
I had a brief chat with Gary Hazlitt (the same Gary that built the Bigpond islands and the ABC island) and he suggested a [...]