Virtual Presence

The Virtual Communities and Libraries Member Initiative Group meeting for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference – taking place in the hometown of ALA Headquarters: Chicago, IL! — will take place in real life on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at 3:00 pm CT (1:00 pm PT/SLT), at National Louis University, which is located at 122 S. [...]

Contributed by Oberon Octagon and reposted because he deleted previous version
Kay Tairov and I have been pondering how to encourage interaction with SLibrarians who attened MW with those who couldn’t make it. Last summer we tried to have a briefing time for such at Salon Huron and met with mixed success. I suspect that our [...]

Contributed by Oberon Octagon
For those who weren’t able to attend the program in Denver or watch the Webcast, ALA Island’s Main Stage had three screens dedicated to viewing the video produced for the ALA Youth Media Awards. The media url for the stage will continue to carry that video for the remainder of the month. [...]

Contributed by Oberon Octagon
Statistically, we did very well on our first days of MW coverage on ALA Island, with a great amount of interest in the Privacy Revolution on Friday and the Virtual Communities & Libraries Members Initiative Group (MIG) on Saturday. I have a graphic that illustrates the spike in attendance at these two [...]

Contributed by Oberon Octagon
Right now, I’m writing this while my avatar is dancing, pretty much alone, at the opening of the Privacy Revolution celebration at the Banned Books Week parcel of ALA Island. We are embarking on our most ambitious series of events yet, attempting to provide members who can’t get to Denver but who [...]

You should be able to read this blog on ALA Island now. I’ve set up an RSS Screen that converts the feed to Quicktime and displays our blog pages on a screen in the Communications center, where we have the Members Iniative Group information located. I’ve also set up a Twitter Feed screen that will [...]

Posted by Oberon Octagon

Young Adult author Cynthia Leitich Smith, will be presenting on the main grid of Second Life on American Library Association’s Island at (ALA Island 129, 105, 29) October 14 at 5pm PST, and on the teen grid at the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County’s Eye4You Alliance island (118, 153, 21) [...]

Posted by Oberon Octagon
I took advantage of the invitation and visted on September 24, the HQ of the Association of Virtual Worlds. It was online here, which may require a download to complete visit. This virtual place (see pics) uses GoWeb3D as its platform and worked fairly smoothly, though I am so enamored of Second Life [...]

Posted by Oberon Octagon
So sorry about my previous post, which presented all that lovely MS Word code! It was late that night before going away from a long, much-needed weekend off the ‘net and all things virtual! I really didn’t mean to submit what was basically my internal report about SLCC 08. Let’s try it again …
For [...]

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Panel on Machinima: Art of Visual Animation
With 11 years of experience in machinima, their favorite is SL for tools
–Film on Virtual Africa–
sitting in the sun too long!
nice edit from 13 min to 2
–CSI–
Teaser for version of CSI for SL — cool
–Grid Review–
NBA headquarters, streaming tv
Gridsters
Goldfurry
the Green 13-week series (actual green clothes)
Walk the [...]