Today at 10AM PST (1PM EST) there will be a "Stand Up Against Poverty" event in Second Life sponsored by the UN Millennium Campaign. If you don’t make it, it will repeat at 6:30PM PST / 9:30PM EST. Both events will take place at the Plush Nonprofit Commons sim (teleport SLURL.) Here’s the official description:…
Category: Virtual Worlds
OneClimate.net opens virtual door to UN climate change summit in Bali
I just got the news that the international non-profit network OneWorld.net has launched an island in Second Life called "OneClimate" to promote public action on Climate Change. In the 1990s, OneWorld was instrumental in bringing to the web the work of hundreds of non-profit causes from around the world. So it’s appropriate that the UK-based…
Global Kids offers innovative “choose-your-own” job description
Remember those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books from when you were a kid? I used to LOVE those things. Well, now my friends at Global Kids have announced a new "Choose-Your-Own-Job-Description" set of job openings: We are currently looking to hire three to four people. However, each position contains more than one area of responsibility,…
Tax issues for non-profits in Second Life
Complicated issues surrounding taxation for Second Life business activity have come to the fore recently, including VAT tax for Europeans and Congressional hearings on the issue for Americans. Non-profit and charitable organizations also need to familiarize themselves with the relevant tax issues that might apply to their in-world activities. It’s simply short-sighted to think that…
Upcoming Second Life job fairs for EMC, KPMG, Royal Bank of Scotland and more
For those of you looking for employment, Second Life offers a new way to find out about real life job opportunities, attend virtual job fairs, and even participate in a job interview, all from your desktop. There are however lots of new considerations that you have to take into account as you engage in virtual…
Reminder: Add your AV to “You and Your Avatar” Flickr Group!
Speaking of avatars, this is just a reminder about the "You and Your Avatar" group on Flickr, where we collect images of people with their avatars from whatever virtual worlds and MMORPGs they inhabit. Lots of great new submissions, but this one by iodee is my current favorite.
Avatars and virtual world interoperability
Reuters has a story today about IBM and Linden Lab’s announcement that they are working together on creating interoperability standards so that avatars can cross from one virtual world to another. This is welcome and important news, given the likely enormous proliferation of virtual worlds in the coming 12 months. But the Reuter’s piece doesn’t…
New York teens sought for machinima program at Global Kids
Global Kids teens presenting their projects at the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago last August Tabitha of the Online Leadership Program at Global Kids sends out news that they are looking for teenagers in the New York City area to participate in the second year of their "Virtual Video Project." This after-school program is…
Plone Conference streaming into Second Life Oct 10-12
Developers and users of the excellent Plone content management system will be converging next week at the annual Plone Conference happening in Naples, Italy. The event will feature trainings, programming "sprints" as well as lots of nerdy socializing with the 700 other anticipated participants from around the world. For those who can’t make it to…
Alas, poor Arden, I hardly knew thee
Ted Castronova sends out notice on the Terra Nova blog that "Arden" the Shakespearean-themed virtual world (which I parodied awhile ago) has finished their alpha stress test and now is going into what looks like perpetual beta. For those that don’t know, Arden was pitched as leveraging the convening power of massively multi-player online games…