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Second Life Tip Sheet

Business Week posted a Second Life tip sheet on November 27th. Here is what they suggested: NOVEMBER 27, 2006 RELATED ITEMS Chart: Second Life Stats Graphic: Real World Brands In Second Life Graphic: The Most Popular Developers To Help Design And Execute Your Company's Virtual World Strategy Slide Show: Life Before (or After) Second Life INSIDE INNOVATION -- IN SIDE Second Life Tip Sheet Steps to take and mistakes to avoid 1. Design your avatar. The first place to start -- even just to research firsthand what other corporations are doing -- is to sign up for a free Second Life account and create your avatar, or online alter-ego. If you want to buy property for your virtual store, you need to sign up for a $9.95-a-month premium account through PayPal ( EBAY ). 2. Buy some land. Fees range from $5 for 512 square meters of a region to large islands priced at $5,000 for 262,144 square meters (about 64 acres) and $780 in monthly maintenance fees. Most real-world companies have been spe

Welcome to Cybrary City; Setting Up Library Areas

A new blog at infoisland.org has recently posted this announcement about how to set up a library in Cybrary City on Second Life: "The mayor of Cybrary City, Paul Miller of Talis, will officially welcome Cybrary City residents and other interested librarians on Wed, December 6 at 2:30 pm sl time, 4:30 central, and 5:30 Eastern to welcome everyone. The welcome will be held on the plaza in front of the new conference center. After the welcome, we will briefly discuss guidelines for your areas and divide you into groups who will work with BlueWings Hayek and Eiseldora on how to do things to set up your places the way you would like. I know there is no time that is good for everyone. We will schedule another time soon after that if you cannot make this one. I know many have questions about guidelines and how to set up so I wanted to go ahead and get this scheduled. " So if you are interested in setting up a library, please log in on Dec 6th.

Australian Libraries join Second Life

"I’m gobsmacked! I just popped into Cybrary City in Second Life for a visit before bed, and have come out with a building for all Australian Libraries to share . Ooops. Cybrary City is an island sponsered by Talis and administered by the Alliance Library System . It provides free buildings for libraries for a year, in return for a couple of hours staffing per week. It was created last week, and I was checking out the island because I’d blogged about how great I think the initiative is. " To read the rest of this post click here . Are any other libraries thinking of joining Cybrary City?

The World's Fastest Librarian

The World’s Fastest Librarian is a twelve minute short film following Mary, a fictional public librarian at the Madison Public Library (as played by the UW SLIS Lab Library) as she prepares for the World’s Fastest Librarian Competition. The World’s Fastest Librarian is a humorous tongue in cheek film that shows a different image of librarians than that usually found in films. This film was a collaborative project involving over a dozen library school students. It was a labor of love and is meant as a tribute to librarians everywhere.

Create you own online library

If you have your own library in your house, this is the site for you! LibraryThing This website allows you to enter/catalog the books you are reading. It links you up with other people who have the same interests. You can join a group, blog, discuss a book, or just arrange your books on a virtual bookshelf. The first 200 books you enter are free. Enjoy!