Second Life for business, part 2

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City of Littleton 01 October 2008 Scott Brown

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Part 2 presentation and demonstration of Second Life, virtual worlds and social networking tools as used at Sun Microsystems. Provided to City of Littleton, Colorado, October 2008.

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City of Littleton

01 October 2008

Scott Brown

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Agenda

Introduction, agenda review and additions

Debrief of getting set up in Second Life

Research/case studies of virtual world usage

Recruitment

Games and engagement

Collaboration

Wonderland demo (9am)

Break

Social media at Sun & demo

Recommendations and next steps, wrap-up

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Debrief on getting set

up in Second Life

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Name the CLO - Sun

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Other virtual worlds

There.com

http://www.there.com

Google Lively

http://lively.google.com

Forterra

http://www.forterrainc.com

Business-focused, collaboration capabilities, private

instances

Cost associated with it

Wonderland

https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/

Similar to Forterra, but open-source and free

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Wonderland

Virtual world project from Sun

“Second Life for the enterprise”

Addressing eco-responsibility

Designed specifically for collaboration

- Can host your own world or intranet (SL just

announced this availability as well)

- Enterprise-grade

- Immersive audio built in as a core feature

- Live application integration (Firefox, OpenOffice)

- Entirely open source

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SL example tour

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Break

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Social networking tools at Sun: a

rough evolution

Blogs

Wikis

Facebook

Twitter

Second Life

Sun Learning Exchange

SunSpace

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Recommendations

At a minimum, continue tracking this

space

Consider different levels of offerings:

Informational

Workshops: Introduction to virtual worlds

and/or Second Life specifically

Second Life mentoring group for Littleton

businesses

In-world assistance

In-world presence

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Resources: Recruiting examples

Accenture Careers island in SL

TMP Island in SL

Missouri IT, Eduisland in SL

Kelly Services HQ in SL

Recruiting in Second Life blog

http://recruit2ndlife.blogspot.com/

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Resources: Virtual worlds

Second Life News Network

http://www.slnn.com

Metaverse Messenger (M2)

http://www.metaversemessenger.com

Second Life mentors

Search for Help Island(s)

Wander around and find a mentor

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Resources: Wonderland

MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace

http://research.sun.com/projects/mpk20/

Project Wonderland

http://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/

Project Darkstar (Sun’s gaming platform)

http://projectdarkstar.com/

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Resources: Builders, etc.

Gronstedt Group (based in CO)

http://www.gronstedtgroup.com

World2Worlds

http://www.world2worlds.com

Clever Zebra

http://cleverzebra.com

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Resources: Sun social

networking tools Blogs.sun.com

http://blogs.sun.com

Wikis.sun.com

http://wikis.sun.com

Facebook

Search Facebook for Sun Microsystems

groups

Sun Learning Exchange

http://slx.sun.com

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Resources: Sun social

networking tools - Facebook Sun Microsystems OpenStorage

Community○ http://www.new.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=12774638036

OpenSolaris○ http://www.new.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=2351276067

Sun Microsystems Facebook Fridays○ http://www.new.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=6267111589

Sun in Second Life○ http://www.new.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=9462899830

Inclusion@Sun○ http://www.new.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=8619896126

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Resources: Sun social

networking tools - Twitter

Digital Libraries & Research

○ http://twitter.com/libraryresearch

SunNews

○ https://twitter.com/SunNews

SunBlogs

○ https://twitter.com/SunBlogs