May 2010 Blog Posts (17)

GLANCE International Agency…

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Listen to the Bernie Borges interview here

Many business leaders, particularly those over 40, are aware of the bloggersphere, social media, online networks and suspect that they should participate. But they don’t know why or how and some even have a resistent attitude against online engagement.



However there is little or no…

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We have a new blog post up at www.thisweekinvirtualworlds.com.

This week we take a look at the Gartner hype-cycle and explore the future for virtual worlds in light of the explosion of casual social games.

Feel free to take a look at the blog and leave a comment!

Webinar and Discussion:

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9:30PM SLT/PDT: TOSHA BERGAN will be talking about being MANAGER for EUPHORIA DAY SPA & WELLNESS CENTER..Their approach to mental well being is pursued by well trained professionals offering SL & RL skills! (Live/Voice)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cevedale/70/22/2538

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L'esposizione “Viareggio ART Project” , che si svolgerà dal 28 Maggio al 13 Giugno, nei Musei Civici di Villa Paolina Bonaparte a Viareggio, prevede molteplici eventi collaterali, alcuni dei quali sono organizzati in Second Life, in collaborazione con artisti e gruppi di artisti che hanno trovato in World un ambiente tecnologico ideale per sperimentare le loro attività.

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If you're reading this blog then we know you love virtual worlds almost as much as we do - so we thought you might be interested in this shameless plug for our new blog This Week in Virtual Worlds

Each week we'll be tracking the news, comments and trends in virtual worlds and social gaming. Hopefully we'll provide some useful insight on the key the issues and provide a round up of the latest developments in the industry.

We hope…

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This announcement went out tonight, 12 May 2010:

This is most unusual. You may know of a group of Tiny little SL residents that live in a charming place called Raglan Shire. One of their own, Canis Canis, is opening a new VKC Dog Park there! (Shhh. Canis Canis is actually Aztek Aeon, Host of the Canis Beach Dog Park.)

Bring your dog and come visit the new park. You need…

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The +Spaces project (funded by the EU Framework 7 programme) is

carrying out research into the use of virtual online worlds for e-…

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What makes a great virtual world? Why do some worlds keep players coming back time after time? And what can we learn from social games? This is the first in a series of blog posts answering those questions, and more, as we dig into, and dissect, the design of successful virtual worlds. In this first post we're going to look at 'False Achievement'.

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5 de Mayo, the fifth day of May was celebrated in style at Dogland park. I am a big fan of Mexican Culture. The music, food, art, culture, and people are exciting.…

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LISTEN to the interview HERE



Despite the migration to online communication among PR people and even more so elsewhere in the marketing community, lots of organisations either don’t yet realise the potential or more likely, they feel it is yet another cost they don’t need.



What is social marketing and online engagement actually worth to marketers in dollars and cents? This week’s… Continue

We’ve been creating virtual worlds for 10 years. Nearly every world has the same set of core features and game engines. Rebuilding these for each project is a waste of time - you need to focus on what’s going to make your world fun, not building friends lists and payment gateways.

Four years ago we set out to build the best virtual world platform delivered through Adobe Flash. We’re making the first public beta of this platform available today!

We've used this…

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