Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2007

For game Friday this week, I plan to interview the esteemed Sibley Verbeck , founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , the largest "metaverse applications" professional services company out there. When Sibley decided to start a Second Life -focused business last year, I thought he was nuts. He's also my fiance.

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Second Life Life Question Hype 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

In nonprofit environments, there is less tolerance of "personal professional development" because of a culture of training versus culture of learning. Read more on this topic by Michele Martin and Rosetta Thurman at Perspectives from the Pipeline about blogging as low-cost professional development and her comes a follow-up post.

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Adopt Social Media Personal Hype 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the.

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