Tonight I’ll be discussing ways with which to build community virtually. While I am a huge fan of face-to-face meetings, it simply is not always possible. I do a lot of administrative tasks for both Silvafug and 360Conferences virtually. Also, John and I strive hard to build the 360Flex community not only physically (when we have the conferences) but also virtually between conferences. I’ll be talking about how technologies such as blogs, IM, etc. help to accomplish that task.
You can see a more detailed write-up over at Daniel’s Blog. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention one minor detail. The event will take place inside Second Life. I’ll admit that I’m new to Second Life, but am exciting about some of the social opportunities that this new medium presents.
My purpose in life is to make people happy through the application of technology.
My primary way of attaining my purpose is by doing Montage, iOS and Flex programming for my consulting company, OmegaOrtega.
The secondary way is by building games with my great friend from high school over at Area 161.
I'm found on app.net as LordBron.
You can read my personal blog over here. It's filled with technical posts, but also posts about bettering oneself
My faith is being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I have a spiritual blog called Spiritual Techies. It's not LDS specific, but more generic spiritual thoughts.
Who's Lord Bron? Where does the name come from? He was the main character in a short story I wrote in middle school. I liked him so much, I took up his name as my nickname and username for internet sites. He was a time-traveller. 'Nuff said!
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Hey Tom,
Thanks for the rocking presentation you did last night. We must have been doing something right because we had 2 griefers. I know it was last minute, but you delivered as always with excellent commentary and content. I personally picked up a few things out of the presentation which I can use in my efforts. If I counted write 5 out of the 7 members of my graduate course in Immersive Worlds were there, plus many more. I hope that you get some comments and more interaction w/ the people who attended.
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Hey Tom,
Thanks for the rocking presentation you did last night. We must have been doing something right because we had 2 griefers. I know it was last minute, but you delivered as always with excellent commentary and content. I personally picked up a few things out of the presentation which I can use in my efforts. If I counted write 5 out of the 7 members of my graduate course in Immersive Worlds were there, plus many more. I hope that you get some comments and more interaction w/ the people who attended.