There's been a lot of negativity in the press of late over the marketing failures of corporations in the virtual world of Second Life. Analyst firm Gartner have even warned companies away from public worlds recently. With all of that in mind, Metaversed has put together a panel of active real life firms in Second Life to discuss their experiences, and lessons learned from being part of the community. The debate will no doubt prove useful to others and be of great interest to anyone involved in the business side of virtual worlds.
12pm SLT/PST, 8pm GMT - Venue to be arranged
We're still waiting on a venue, but you can find the Talkshoe details at the bottom of this page so whether you're inworld or not, you can be part of the debate.
Speaking at Metaversed Live This Week
Im still waiting on a couple of confirms, but we have a fantastic panel already. Confirmed for tonights discussion, in no particular order:
- Craig Cmehil - Community Evangelist, SAP
- Fiona Gallagher - SL Project Lead, Sun
- Jeff Barr - Web Services Evangelist, Amazon
- Jonas Karlsson - Research Team, Xerox
Call in Details
Hopefully you'll be able to join us inworld, but either way, if you can dial into a US telephone number with a regular phone, or something like SkypeOut, then you're good to go. The show will start at 12pm SLT/PST, 8pm GMT today, details follow:
- Signup for an account at TalkShoe
- You do NOT need to download/install the Talkshoe software, but it is useful as it allows you to txt us what you want to talk about (ie you're more likely to get on).
- Call i(724) 444-7444
- Talkcast ID: 40974
- Enter your PIN -- Created by you when you signed up at Talkshoe.com
- IMPORTANT: If you are at the Second Life location, turn your external speakers down on your PC, otherwise you'll cause echos on the stream.
Questions for the Panel
You can pose questions to the panel both inworld at the time, live on talkshoe, or drop a comment below. However you choose, we'd love to hear what you have to say and will try to get them answered for you!
See you all at 12pm SLT!
I think the fundamental problem is these take a tremendous amount of participation by companies, in realtime. Most companies are completely unprepared to do that. It is analogous to put a show in Broadway. You need to constantly be doing something. That is a BIG problem.