Events

Muse Isle rebroadcasts Monday's show and kick it up with lively discussion! This is an opportunity to see the program again OR for the first time if you missed it on Monday - Come join the community of Metanomics minded people like YOU!

On Tuesday, July 8th, at 3 PM PST, join us for a replay of Robert Bloomfield's interview with Bettina Tizzy, Second Life’s tireless advocate for the creation and celebration of content that is not possible in real life (NPIRL). Join us for a rare interview with Bettina, who has earned the respect of the most elite content creators in the metaverse and curates the NPIRL blog. Expect her to offer frank opinions on matters from Linden Lab’s intellectual property policies and public relations strategies to the state of the metaverse development industry. Bettina will also be announcing an opportunity for in-world fashion designers to join forces with top-level real-life fashion designers in a path-breaking crossover endeavor.

On Monday, July 14, 2008, at 5:45 AM SLT (yes that's right! 5:45 AM!) Metanomics will be covering the first anniversary celebration of Manpower’s Second Life Headquarters. This event, organized by Dancing Ink Productions, features a roundtable discussion with Manpower Inc. Chairman and CEO Jeff Joerres, Linden Lab Chairman and Founder Philip Rosedale, among many other fascinating speakers (including Second Life resident Gentle Heron, co-founder of the Heron Sanctuary, a support group for disabled people in Second Life.) Roundtable discussions will be separated by machinima from the incomparable Draxtor Despres. Host Robert Bloomfield will provide live commentary from the event via slcn.tv, at our event partners and on the web and ChatBridge at www.metanomics.net/WatchNow.

Topics for the roundtable include:

• Manpower's commitment to social responsibility and to the UN Global Compact.
• The evolution of a global workforce and of virtual work.
• Opportunities for Second Life residents, especially those who have real-life disabilities or who are focused across several cultures.

Metanomics’ live coverage of this event is part of our new series, The Virtual Workforce, which focuses on how virtual worlds and related technologies change the nature of employment, management, and organizations. The Virtual Workforce series is brought to you by all of the sponsors of Metanomics, with special thanks to Kelly Services for their insights in helping us map out this emerging area.

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Join Metanomics on Monday, July 14th, to explore the web with ROCKETON, the virtual world that layers right in your web browser. Rocketon’s co-founders, CEO Steve Hoffman and VP Eric Hayashi will take our avatars to our favorite websites, while we discuss Rocketon’s revenue model, marketing opportunities, business challenges, and implications for the metaverse. We start the show by putting David Levine of IBM On the Spot, to talk about progress toward interoperability of Second Life and OpenSim.

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At Noon on Monday, July 21, 2008 Rita J. King and Joshua S. Fouts of Dancing Ink Productions join Metanomics to discuss the roles virtual worlds can play in global diplomacy and business. Find out about governmental uses of virtual worlds, the evolution of IBM’s thriving virtual community, and one of Dancing Ink’s newest projects, “Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds.”

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Bridging the Virtual Worlds of Business & K-20 Education

Metanomics is proud to be partnering with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to bring our audiences together in the hopes of facilitating dialogue, networking, information sharing, and creating innovation in Second Life. On Tuesday, July 22, at 6 PM SLT, ISTE's Kevin Jarret (KJ Hax in SL) will interview Robert Bloomfield (Beyers Sellers in SL) and Chris Collins (Fleep Tuque in SL) in a lively, open discussion surrounding the question, "How can Metanomics, and the Metanomics archives, inform K-20 educators, librarians and instructional technologists who would like to use information about business and policy in virtual worlds?"

TELEPORT TO ISTE's new four-sim auditorium!

Join Metanomics at Noon on Monday, July 28th, to learn about how K-12 teachers are using the Virtual Chalkboard. Hear superstar educator Kathy Schrock of "Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators", Teen Grid pioneer Peggy Sheehy, and Linden’s Boston Operations Director (and academic evangelist) Pathfinder Linden. But first, we put the grid-spanning group ISTE “On the Spot” to talk about the Second Life activities of the International Society for Technology in Education.

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VIDEO now posted!

The collaboration between Linden Lab, IBM and an eclectic collection of software adventurers on the Open Grid may be the most direct step taken so far toward a true ‘metaverse’. Come hear IBM’s Zha Ewry and Linden Lab’s Zero Linden talk about the progress they have made, and the implications of their work, at Metanomics, Noon PST on Monday, August 4th. We start the show with Dusan Writer announcing the follow-up to his much-lauded competition to design improvements to the Second Life viewer.

To attend in the virtual world go to one of our Second Life® Event Partners or watch live on the web with Chatbridge to connect you to the online discussion.

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