Organizations start to meet in 3D world!
Mark Your Calendars and Ready Your Avatars: First ASF Second Life Future Salon on Thursday, April 28th.
Currently in four US cities, ASF's Future Salons are monthly mini-conferences for foresight, networking, and fun with a local futures community. This April 28th will see the launching of our newest salon inside the 3D digital world Second Life (SL) . Like its real world counter-parts, the SL Future Salon will provide an open opportunity to explore social, business, and technological futures with two or three specially invited speakers and a great group of guests, this time within the virtual frontier of the early 3D metaverse.
ASF Community Director Jerry Paffendorf is organizing the SL Salon as well as a preliminary meeting in Second Life on Thursday, April 21st (one week in advance).
If you've never used Second Life before, the preliminary meeting may be helpful for familiarizing yourself with its controls and working out any technical issues with your hardware so you'll be all set for the April 28th event. We also encourage you to get into SL and do some exploring of its remarkable user-created world on your own.
Second Life has a free seven day trial period (with credit card; 18+ only), and a payment of $9.99 will get you in for life. Once you're in SL , there's no recurring cost to attend the Future Salons (though you might end up wanting to purchase a virtual creation or two with virtual or real cash from one of SL's many, many talented builders). And since real world geography doesn't matter one lick in cyberspace, we hope to meet a lot of you there who don't live near enough to attend any of our regional salons.
More news about the SL Future Salon in the next ATimes as well as regular updates on Jerry's blog, Setpoint Originator . If you plan to attend the first SL Salon, please RSVP to Jerry . Volunteers, questions and suggestions for the event are very welcome. We hope to see a lot of you “in-world” for the first chapter of this innovative salon series!
Read more here
Currently in four US cities, ASF's Future Salons are monthly mini-conferences for foresight, networking, and fun with a local futures community. This April 28th will see the launching of our newest salon inside the 3D digital world Second Life (SL) . Like its real world counter-parts, the SL Future Salon will provide an open opportunity to explore social, business, and technological futures with two or three specially invited speakers and a great group of guests, this time within the virtual frontier of the early 3D metaverse.
ASF Community Director Jerry Paffendorf is organizing the SL Salon as well as a preliminary meeting in Second Life on Thursday, April 21st (one week in advance).
If you've never used Second Life before, the preliminary meeting may be helpful for familiarizing yourself with its controls and working out any technical issues with your hardware so you'll be all set for the April 28th event. We also encourage you to get into SL and do some exploring of its remarkable user-created world on your own.
Second Life has a free seven day trial period (with credit card; 18+ only), and a payment of $9.99 will get you in for life. Once you're in SL , there's no recurring cost to attend the Future Salons (though you might end up wanting to purchase a virtual creation or two with virtual or real cash from one of SL's many, many talented builders). And since real world geography doesn't matter one lick in cyberspace, we hope to meet a lot of you there who don't live near enough to attend any of our regional salons.
More news about the SL Future Salon in the next ATimes as well as regular updates on Jerry's blog, Setpoint Originator . If you plan to attend the first SL Salon, please RSVP to Jerry . Volunteers, questions and suggestions for the event are very welcome. We hope to see a lot of you “in-world” for the first chapter of this innovative salon series!
Read more here