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Ricken Flow, Indigo Mertel and 8 other members joined Jay Swartz's groupon Friday
Making a Living from VWs
Collaboration, discussion, introductions, hiring, and skill-matching for those who want their work in VWs to be their primary income source. Let's work together to make a good living from VWs

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Title/Affiliation:
President, MirrorMessage
Location:
Broomfield, Colorado
Website:
http://MirrorMessage.biz
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You can find me through my website, in SecondLife as the avatar Klaatu Quintus, or on LinkedIn.

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I am striving to make my work in VWs become my primary source of income. Currently I do generate a nice side income, but I want to increase that amount substantially, primarily by leading or contributing to corporate or commercial builds.

I am an expert builder and scripter in SecondLife (SL). I own six regions that include two clubs, a mall, and residential land with over 50% water for boating. One of the two clubs, Tantalus, is a DJ club that's been open over a year and has over 800 VIPs to date. The other club, the Apollo Room, is a combination live performance venue and ballroom dancing area.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions about SL.

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At 6:02pm on April 29, 2008, Barry Everett (Farnham) said…
Last week, we started a discussion of a guild or organization to provide VW professionals a vehicle to help each other succeed as independent agents and compete for contracts. Would you and the Making a Living Group consider meeting with the KN group, perhaps at Power-Match for our Wednesday meeting tomorrow, to continue this discussion?
At 9:07pm on April 26, 2008, Steve Churchill said…
Thanks for the welcome Jay.
At 1:33pm on April 26, 2008, Kim Smith (Rissa Maidstone) said…
This is what I said, there, in response to your question: Actually, those should be going up this week. We're undergoing some changes however, that will be publicly announced very soon. One that is obvious is that I'm now promoting my company, World2Worlds, which had been under contract to UBM/CMP for well over a year. We're going forward with what we'd built, just under my company name and obviously there will be some other changes occurring as well. I'm hoping that people who belonged to our other groups in Second Life switch over to World2Worlds group as those groups will soon cease to be operational points for us.
At 1:32pm on April 26, 2008, Kim Smith (Rissa Maidstone) said…
Whops! a bit new to this platform--commented back to you on my page, my bad!
At 5:34pm on April 8, 2008, LillyBeth Filth said…
Is there a link to your " making a living in VW " group? :)
At 4:36am on March 27, 2008, Tia Carr Williams said…
Game objectives will vary. MetaVercia is about collaboration and coming to play different games as the mood takes you. Paintball is good. Could avatar bots not solve the labour intensive issue? Do you sell this to corporate clients? Or Educators for pupils? Ive several themes being developed and always happy to brainstorm.
At 6:00pm on March 26, 2008, Silvana Kelleher said…
I'd be happy to be so once I find my feet...am playing in the ITLP atm after having robbed 90% of the freebie shops LOL....Now I have all the goodies, I just need to find out what to do with them ha ha ha. I'm determined to at least learn how to texture as well as I was on IMVU & I think I can crack working with prims too (I was pretty good at geometry at school), however I do enjoying meeting people so showing newbies around either place is all good with me :)
At 3:24pm on March 26, 2008, Silvana Kelleher said…
Happy day^_^ Just a quickie to say thanks again for being such an awesome host to me today. I learned so much & Bubbles was great too. I sent her here to hook up with as many IMVU'rs as poss before taking her over there :) Will let you know how things go B xx
At 4:47am on March 26, 2008, Tia Carr Williams said…
Jay,
Im focused on building more game style events in SL, I d be interested to get your opinion on way s to fulfill this,
At 12:52pm on March 21, 2008, Chuck Ferguson said…
Jay-

Just a note to let you know that I joined the association from your invitation.

Haven't heard from you for a while... it looks like your're keeping busy with your VW activities.

Let's connect and catch up.

-Chuck

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