Technology convention for non-profit organizations

I attended a technology convention for non-profit organizations and they had a session about non-profits on Second Life so naturally I attended. The session was good, but the presentation was awesome. There was one presenter on site, but both she and the other two presenters we in Second Life form across the US. In addition, the presentation was geared both to the real audience sitting in our room and the virtual audience sitting around the presenting avatars. It was a situation which would take more guts than I would have to do a presentation myself.









But I think it was very worth it. This presentation was to a group of people that were mostly not Second Life literate. Probably more than half the audience had not been on to SL at all, and many of the others were at the “I signed on once” stage. The fact that the presentation was on SL communicated a feel for the world that I don’t think would have reached the same lever even with a “demo” of Second Life (“Here’s how you walk”, “here’s how you chat”, …)

It was great fun at the end where all the audience questions had been answered and the in-room presenter asked if there was anything the audience would like to see. One guy immediately asked if we could go see dancing since he couldn’t picture avatar dancing. Instead of taking us, the presenter asked the in-world audience if they’d indulge us in dancing and several of the onscreen avatars gave a great show and a great close to the presentation.

--DrawDweeb Latte-