My office in Second Life
I belong to several online communities; www.linkedin.com, www.xing.com, www.ecademy.com, www.mice-contact.com, www.micenetwork.com, www.facebook.com, etc., but I don't really exploit the potential of any of these except perhaps Facebook for keeping up to date with family and friends.
So a few days ago I decided to search for groups of people who share my interest and registered for the "Ecademy networking lounge in Second Life" who invited me to a meeting a few days later where I met Ecademy founder Penny Power and Second Life business consultant Joaqim Mutim (joaquim.mutim@gmail.com). This was just like a chatroom meeting, but somehow it feels very different from an ordinary chatroom when you can se the avatars of the people you are chatting with (see picture).
It was of course nice to meet Penny Power (she was not impressed by my Ecademy performance), but Joaqim Mutim turned out to be someone I have been waiting to meet for some time. Not because he gave me a motorcycle (BMW - my favourite), but because he can take my hand and guide me through the process of setting up office in Second Life, which I did!
A couple of hours later, I had rented a large, all glass, 2 story office from Joaquim for USD 23 a month, including some furniture and consulting services on how to organise the office in order to do some real life business there. My office is within sight of the Ecademy networking lounge and probably I can rent or borrow their meeting room for larger meetings. I need to get up some posters with information about the European Event ROI Institute, a chat facility so that visitors can get me on a chatline if I am available but not in my SL office, maybe the possibility of sitting down and watching a ROI webcast, this is just the beginning, I am sure.
If you want to visit, get yourself an avatar in www.secondlife.com, search for 'elling' and teleport to my office.
So a few days ago I decided to search for groups of people who share my interest and registered for the "Ecademy networking lounge in Second Life" who invited me to a meeting a few days later where I met Ecademy founder Penny Power and Second Life business consultant Joaqim Mutim (joaquim.mutim@gmail.com). This was just like a chatroom meeting, but somehow it feels very different from an ordinary chatroom when you can se the avatars of the people you are chatting with (see picture).
It was of course nice to meet Penny Power (she was not impressed by my Ecademy performance), but Joaqim Mutim turned out to be someone I have been waiting to meet for some time. Not because he gave me a motorcycle (BMW - my favourite), but because he can take my hand and guide me through the process of setting up office in Second Life, which I did!
A couple of hours later, I had rented a large, all glass, 2 story office from Joaquim for USD 23 a month, including some furniture and consulting services on how to organise the office in order to do some real life business there. My office is within sight of the Ecademy networking lounge and probably I can rent or borrow their meeting room for larger meetings. I need to get up some posters with information about the European Event ROI Institute, a chat facility so that visitors can get me on a chatline if I am available but not in my SL office, maybe the possibility of sitting down and watching a ROI webcast, this is just the beginning, I am sure.If you want to visit, get yourself an avatar in www.secondlife.com, search for 'elling' and teleport to my office.
posted by Elling Hamso at
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
2 Comments:
Hey Elling! Just wanted to briefly post here as well (posted on your MPI blog).
If you ever want to talk about SL or have questions, please feel free to IM me (Subquark Hax) or my partner in business Ener Hax.
While we do virtual land business, we also just want to add to the SL experience (we both do a few hours a week as Mentors).
Our experience also includes work for universities and companies and collaboration is what it is all about (read: lots of free work for special needs groups).
Good luck and have fun!
You write very well.
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