Bloc party
Last night I attended the GreaterIBM bloc party in Second Life that was mentioned a couple of days back. It was great fun - and testament to the hard work that the organisers put in to making it a success. Here are some pictures of what you may have missed.
The attendees begin to arrive at the SkyPOD.
Exploring.
The audience ready for the start of the formal presentations.
epredator during his presentation.
Chatting at a breakout session.
October 13th, 2006 at 8:35 am
Andy, great screenshots! Thanks for attending and am glad you enjoyed it. :)
October 13th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Well done to everyone who made this happen. I couldn’t be there, so I want to hear more details! :-)
October 13th, 2006 at 10:36 am
You beat me to it Andy. The event went very well, and Kevin did a superb job organizing it, as did all the volunteers who were marshalling, filming etc.
Its quite a logistical nightmare and when new people are being onboarded and finding their way around.
So well done to the entire team and thanks also to all the alumni and press who attended it was good to meet you all.
October 13th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
[...] Andy Piper: Bloc Party - “Last night I attended the GreaterIBM bloc party in Second Life that was mentioned a couple of days back. It was great fun - and testament to the hard work that the organisers put in to making it a success. Here are some pictures of what you may have missed.” Looks like they had a great time. [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
It was a great event - all the hard work of the team really paid off! My hat is off to the organizers for doing a great job!
October 13th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
So is SL going to be installed by default as part of the c4eb on our Thinkpads from now on? ;-)
October 13th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Sounds like an idea… ;-)
October 19th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
[...] Here’s a link to some screenshots of the meeting [...]
October 19th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
IBM?
Gone are the days of white shirts and dark blue suits… Hats off to Big Blue for taking a giant leap into the future.
October 21st, 2006 at 9:35 am
[...] CNet: IBM is using the virtual world of Second Life as the next best thing to being there for corporate meetings. The venerable computer maker has established at least one virtual island in Second Life where it has hosted employee meetings. Earlier this month, for example, IBM held a virtual block party were people milled around a space called the SkyPOD. For screenshots of IBM’s virtual presence, click here. [...]
October 22nd, 2006 at 4:53 pm
This sets the example of how the anatomy of business is changing!
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:36 pm
[...] IBM just opened up the Greater IBM Bloc Party in Second Life. Hold on to your seats. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 8:29 am
[...] SL now provides an open platform for organizations of all sizes and locations to do likewise. IBM is one of first RL organizations to have seen the light and have been experimenting within SL over the last two years. Most recently they held an event titled the Greater IBM Virtual Bloc Party in SL for its alumni and present members. Some members of its UK based Hursley Park Labs provided coverage of the event over on their weblog eightbar. [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
[...] Really, why would I want to play a game where I can “party at nightclubs, attend fashion shows and art openings or just play games”. Is it really that hard to put a pair of shows on and walk out your door and do the same thing?! OK, so I can live with the agorophobes of the world who want to sit in front of a computer till their butt osmosises into the chair, but I get even more creeped out when the (real) companies jump on this and are now advertising throughout the (fake) world of Second Life (of note: 20th Century Fox held a movie premier, Starwood Hotels is building a virtual hotel there, MLB and ESPN have home run derbies , BBC had an online concert with Gnarls Barkley/Bloc Party/Franz Ferdinand, and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society owns an island there to host events and conferences on the diplomacy of the whole Second Life premise, ironic, huh?!) [...]
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:23 am
[...] Rather than just quoting from the standard press articles about the various companies or formats that are setting up in Second Life (the media’s favourite MUVE at the moment) I have been ‘living it’ so to speak. My inworld blog JustVirtual covers quite a few of my avatars POV, close encounters with the outside world ‘brand immigrants’. Yes they are seen that way by many residents, not disimilar from any alien brand entering a developing world. The recent companies such as NBC, Philips Design, IBM, Reuters, Endemol and others over the past few weeks suggest the next generation of entrants with far more serious vision than the first wave, just pushing product. [...]
December 14th, 2006 at 8:43 am
[...] The folks at IBM, aswell as Reuters already broke down the barriers by manifestation of combing the virtual world with people in the real world. [...]
January 8th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
[...] O nome do”ser” estranho do último post é Carlosss Lukas e habita no extraordinário mundo do Second Life. Quem quiser encontrar-se com ele nesse mundo virtual apareça na quarta-feira (dia 10/01) no espaço da IBM (no local IBM1 há umas óptimas cadeiras para conversar…) ou na tenda da BBC Radio 1 (quem sabe para dançar ao som do Yeah Yeah Yeahs)! [...]
February 12th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Thanx for those nice screenshots. i am very eager to go in this IBM second life place’.
But, where c
February 12th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
where can we find the IBM place in second life ??????
Regards
February 12th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Open the map.
Type IBM
You should find our public islands.
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
[...] “The Greater IBM Block Party” and “The Greater IBM Connection“ [...]
June 17th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
[...] Second Life of course gets a mention together with some examples. IBM for instance use it for mentoring and orientating new employees. IBM have more than one island and am currently having a look at some). Also here’s some screenshots of the GreaterIBMbloc party. Interesting – they have main presentations with break out areas. [...]
July 28th, 2007 at 12:23 am
[...] Once you put in several hours flailing around learning how to function in Second Life, there isn’t much to do. That may explain why more than 85% of the avatars created have been abandoned. Linden’s in-world traffic tally, which factors in both the number of visitors and time spent, shows that the big draws for those who do return are free money and kinky sex. On a random day in June, the most popular location was Money Island (where Linden dollars, the official currency, are given away gratis), with a score of 136,000. Sexy Beach, one of several regions that offer virtual sex shops, dancing and no-strings hookups, came in at 133,000. The Sears store on IBM’s Innovation Island had a traffic score of 281; Coke’s Virtual Thirst pavilion, a mere 27. And even when corporate destinations actually draw people, the PR can be less than ideal. Last winter, CNET’s in-world correspondent was conducting a live interview with Anshe Chung, an avatar said to have earned more than $1 million on virtual real-estate deals, when Chung was assaulted by flying penises in a griefer attack. [...]
October 31st, 2007 at 4:18 pm
[...] World of Warcraft, Second Life, other MMORPGS - I think the resemblance of these to the Matrix is actually more superficial than anything else. They are obvious fantasy playgrounds. And yet…we read about WoW weddings, offline guilds, and more. Companies have virtual presences in Second Life. Real estate is bought and sold. Compare the experience of Mildred in Fahrenheit 451 and her 3-walled interactive-TV enclosure. Is that some way between virtual realities and alternate, livable realities? Does your Second Life avatar look just like you? Why not? [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 9:50 am
[...] Screenshots zur Greater IBM Session in Second Life [...]