Hi Holger:
As you know I'm a novice at Second Life - meaning I can barely walk
but I think this is an interesting proposition.
Do we have to develop the environment for convening in SL? If
convening space is not a barrier, this is an opportunity to introduce
the concept of Open Space convening methods who to those who are
already doing things in Second Life -- and eventually introduce more
OST folks to the virtual world.
Best,
Lucy Garrick
On Jul 17, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Holger Nauheimer (Change Facilitation)
wrote:
Hello Harrison,
don't we all have 9 lives? Second Life is a virtual world which was
created
a couple of years ago and is inhabited by some millions of people. A
free
client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called
Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can
explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual
and
group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services
with
one another, or travel throughout the world.
All major US Universities and many non-profit organizations have their
training sites in Second Life. For example, I visited the Centre for
Virtual
Native Lands, a education site on Native Americans.
I just posted a short article about the conference experience, at
http://www.change-management-blog.com/2009/07/conference-and-world-cafe-meeting-in.html
(you can see some photos, unfortunately my video technology did not
work well).
While the World Café community has already started to inhabitate and
utilize
SL, I haven't heard about an Open Space workshop done there. It
would be
quite a challenge to do so but it is quite a difference to other
forms of
virtual meetings because it comes much closer to real meetings (you
can move
around, meaning "physically" use the Law of Two Feet, use voice or
chat
technologies, use whiteboards etc.). But, as I said, creating the
environment for an Open Space workshop - as an experiment would be
worth the
try.
Anybody out there who wants to support me?
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