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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. That's why Nancy White's post on most useful synchronous online facilitation practices really caught my eye. Nancy takes us through a gradient of modalities and technologies for synchronous meetings.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

And if you’ve ever logged into this brutally confusing new technology, you’ve probably been literally confronted the sense that your avatar, let alone the emperor, has no clothes. Just as with the telephone, television, the Web, mobile phones, e-mail, etc., Fundamentally, virtual worlds are a new communication medium.