My initial impression was just plain awe at finally meeting some of the real people on Second Life. Up to now my only contact with anyone on Second Life has been their avatar version. This was interesting, but made me feel even more isolated in the Great South Florida Tech Wasteland, without any real friends to chat with about the subject. I did campaign a lot for contacts, telling just about everyone I met to turn over any South Floridians they encouraged over to me, posting bulletins on the board, and making a general nuisance of myself. I hope it pays off at Some level.
One really great discovery was that the Second Life community was a much wider age group than I expected. Yes, many of the participants were in their early 20s. But about the same number or more appeared to be in their 40s and 50s or more. Very different from some of the other tech conventions where people all seemed very old or very young. I’m thinking this may be an outcome of the very richness of Second Life. Many different "jobs" require many different talents and personalities, and SLCC includes them all with open arms.
One of the highlights was meeting Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins, co-author of ”Second Life For Dummies” . She looks exactly like her avatar with the trademark red streak in her hair. But she impressed me by bring eminently approachable and I found out she is the recent mother of triplets. This has astronomically raised my respect for all the work she does for the SL community now that I know they no mortal could handle her load.
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