WOW - METAVERSE AWARDS CEREMONY Blew up 2 sims!

We rocked the house tonight. After two moths of planning we only suffered one major crisis during the ceremony! The movie honoring Machinima wouldn't work! But the audience was patient and oh so kind and everyone came out to the sum of nearly 100 attendees to celebrate Second Life and The Achievements made therein.

While done in an awards fashion, there were no losers, the ultimate goal was to encourage community support and interaction by paying homoage to those who have contributed to our world. The Awards style ceremony was a fun, glitzy gala of glamour. Thank you to all who supported this effort, and to all who took the time out of their Second life to nominat, Vote and spend their evening with us.

The winners were as follows:

Achievement in Design: Nephilaine Protagonist
Achievement in Scripting: Hiro Pendragon
Group Achievement: Elf Clan
Humanitarian Award: Katt Kongo and the SL Katrina relief Benefit
Achievement in Building: Odil Lumiere for DarkMoon Castle
Achievement in Avatar Creation: Torley Torgson/Linden
Notable Privately Own Sim: Forcythia Wishbringer for 4 Sims.
Innovation Award: The Metaverse Messenger (Unaffiliated with the Metaverse Awards, mind you)

We also had perfomances that ROCKED the house by Melvin Tool and Kaklick Martin!

Recipients of the award recived a placemarker which will be redeemed for a design cutom made for the Second Life environment and the 2006 Metaverse awards by T. King.

We filled up Brilliant and Bethel and then came the AMAZING afterparty where we danced until the small hours of the morning AND watched the film that would't play for us earlier.

There were no loser, the honor was in being recognized by the community that participated by spotlighting people and content they thought notable, hence we never used the word 'winner' or 'best.' Notable seemed appropriate. And the awards given to those whose names were revealed onscreen deserved it. My congratulations to them all who were nominated, The community loves you. They really, really love you! *wink*

I hope next year to get more of the community involved! Those people who were to busy to nominate, I encourge you to come out in support of those who enrich your SL life. Nominate them! Without your voice our world is quiet.

We Will do this again next March, we learned a lot about the process, from our mistakes and our challenges- but also from our successes.

I hope to see you all at the Second Annual 2007 Metaverse Awards.

Phaylen, I just want to say that you did an awesome job of planning a beautiful event. You deserve an award too!

Regarding what you mentioned about being unaffliated with the M2, many people still persist in thinking that this is an event hosted by the M2.

The MetaVerse Awards were conceived, planned and implemented by Phaylen. The M2 had absolutely nothing to do with it. All of the credit for this wonderful event belongs to Phaylen.

As one of the crew helping out, I just want to say I had a great time preparing the sims for the event. It's events like this that make me wish I hadn't gone for the cheapest graphics card going. My machine only crashed once.

Excellent work! I was there for most of it, until my bed clubbed me and demanded my immediate surrender.

Never found the hud to be more than an annoyance, though... Did it have some function aside from spamming chat? Seriously, I never figured out what it did...

But excellent work on the show itself!

Whilst I'm sure a lot of effort was put into this, what still bemuses me is that I cannot find a single thread, announcement or posting that asked people to nominate, that announced who the nominations where and which asked people to vote. Nothing. Nada. And you spent 2 months planning this??

A lot of people didn't have the faintest idea that this was happening, as was highlighted by a thread you started recently about the person designing the award object.

I can't understand why you'd put so much effort into something and apparently not push the initial nomination and voting part of it. Not having done so makes these awards seem kind of pointless. It's basically a poll of the minority who knew about it, and that detracts a great deal from the grandeur of what you've actually done.

I can name one good reason not to push too hard...

If enough people came to it, it would be crashed before it started?

It's my understanding from what I've read that nominations and voting happened well before the evening. I don't see what bearing that has on limiting the number of people that can attend the ceremony itself.

My confusion over this is simply to do with the non-publicised nomination and voting. When you put this much effort into something, why wouldn't you push it so that whatever it was you were awarding was representative, rather than something influenced by the relative few who knew about it? That's what I don't get.

Ahhhhh. Sorry. Misunderstood your point.

Carry on!

I actually had no idea about any of this! But great news to the winners and congrats!

I held an event in my pants lastnight. Nobody turned up. But I won anyway..

Adobe format was innovative in the early 90s.


What was the criteria for these awards?

Moving to Notices and Well Wishes

"Humanitarian Award: Katt Kongo and the SL Katrina relief Benefit"

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uhm, i wasn't even aware WE where nominated.

Phaylen did announce the nominating process, etc., in the forums many times. That's how I found out about it.

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Frans, the award was for the fundraising I did for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The group SL Katrina Relief was nominated in another category.

Here's me asking the community for nominations on February 1st- before we decided too merge two categories.

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Here's the nominaation annoucement posted on March 3rd, and the announcement of the voting phase.

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here's the notice on March 15th in which we extended the voting until March 20th to try to involve as much of the community as possible in the voting process.

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Here's teh thread announcing the involvement of T. King who is designing the award for the event.

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... And the initial reminder to the recipiants of the Invitations to RSVP for themselves and their party.

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I could also post links to several of my help wanted posts in classified with MVA in the title, the write-up Pathfinder did for the Newsletter...

But I think the above should validate the fact that I made it more than clear on the forums over the last month. That you looked over it, or chose not to read it, was by no fault of my own, save thee spamming you all until you hated me

Ah right, I see why I haven't found those threads subsequently through my searches (didn't see them at the time either). Not one of them contains the words Metaverse and Awards, which you'd think was a given for the Metaverse Awards, would you not?

I'd be really interested to know how many people voted and who was nominated - this information isn't on either of those threads either.

You know, I tend to get more upset for injustices done to other people than to myself. If you have ever hosted an event, you know what's involved. So imagine hosting one of this size. Phaylen came up with this wonderful idea to honor people in Second Life, and went to a LOT of effort to plan it and implement it. She spent her free time, and quite a bit of money, in doing this.

During the ceremony, she forgot to mention two nominees in one category. Instead of understanding how flustered she might have been in running this event, those who were inadventently left out commented in a really nasty way.

Now she was posted the results on the forums to give residents the opportunity to congratulate the winners. For whatever reason, people are choosing to gripe that they didn't know about it, etc.

I don't understand how people can overlook the truly positive message this award show was trying to convey.

If questioning the visibility, transparency and overall mass involvement in a project presented in such a grandiose way is griping then so be it. I love how people over-play things in SL. Many, many people didn't have the first clue about this. If you want to create an awards ceremony that is truly representative of a large portion of the SL population then a couple of posts before nominations and voting that don't even mention the name of the awards just doesn't cut it.

Phaylen has obviously put a lot of effort in, I don't doubt that for a second. But when the whole point is that the community nominates and then votes on who should win, for a vast number of the community not to have had the first clue about it until after nominations and voting has finished is just ridiculous. And diminishes pretty much everything it seems she was trying to achieve.

It appears nominations and voting were only available in a single sim looking back over those threads that have now been pointed out. What? Seriously? If you want to engage the community you don't do that. Maybe it's just a misunderstanding on how to address the community but, either way, this is a little nothing ceremony which should probably have been so much more.

Something else to consider... not everyone reads th forums.

What is the percentage of american's who vote in local elections?
Personally, i don't want every body to vote i want peopel who care enough to go a little out of their way to do it
stop whinning!
i knew i voted
and i brought in several people to vote including at least 1 who have posted here about how they didn't know about it!
so
you missed it
you didn't get to nominate yourself!
get over it

i am so flippin tired of every thread that tries to post a positive attaboy becoming the grounds for malcontents to whine and bitch because they weren't personally given a invitation

O.o

/me goes and hides under the bed from the wrath of Clio



P2

LOL me either and yup contrats all

Mar

umm *blushes*
sorry
but i am,
it doesn't matter who tries to post a positive message here soem one will find a way to turn it into a whinefest!

Suggestions are a great thing. I'm sure Phaylen now has a good idea of some changes to make for next year. Getting the message out in SL is a difficult thing. I can't think of anything else she could have done to let more people know about this. This wasn't a best of SL contest; it was just to honor people in SL. The people who knew about this nominated those they thought deserved recogntion, then the people who knew about this voted.

Oh dear. Moopf I'm sorry to hear you disapprove of the event. Unfortunately, my resources were limited, the forum and in-world contacts being my only real means of getting the word out, and I utilized those tools to the best of my ability...

But I think you're missing the intention of the ceremony, which was my personal effort to encourage peer support within the community by developing and instituting a community driven event... and at the same time, give a hearty thanks to those who have somehow influenced out Second Life in a positive respect, be it the designers who make our avatars beautiful; the builders who make our world beautiful; the scripters who make our world interactive; the Avatars who strike us as incredibly creative or unique; the innovators who have enriched our overall experience; the groups who efforts have had a positive impact on within the world; or those who own private sims and have indiscriminately invited us to play in their personal world.

I was gone for quite some time prior to this, and found a whole new world waiting for me... yet the sheer size of it seemed overwhelming. This made it a little smaller for me personally... and I met some fantastic people, saw many fantastic things, and was made (further) aware of the powerful accomplishments of my fellow SL citizens.

Again, utilizing the only tools available to me, I did my best to raise awareness and encourage the community to participate, granted, while only a percentage use these tools, aside from having a Linden post a Global Message every hour of the day is obviously impractical. If it were within my possibilities to have dropped all 130,000+ subscribers a note card, I absolutely would have. But participation was clearly voluntary, and I could only operate within the Limitations the service allows.

I worked very hard to make the night special, to make show my own appreciation to all of the attendees- not only the nominees, not only the winners; But anyone who took the time to participate to any extent. No one was excluded, and I absolutely relied on word of mouth a great deal... I spared no expense, spent a great deal of my time creating an ocassion that I thought worthy of celebration. Ultimately it was about all of Second Life... and the community that did participate- and there were many of them- recognized the efforts of just some in our world that they appreciate.

Given the fact that I had been gone for so long, I had to literally -reconnect- to the world. I had no landmarks, no calling cards, no money in my Linden account- no inventory- All I had was my Avatar and my drive- which was still in the same spirit as before I left- entirely with a community focus. Bringing people who might not otherwise ever be in the same room.. into the same room. Unification and celebration... that's my second life.

I don't think, Moopf, anything anyone can say will make you happy. I wish it were not that way, but you don't really seem interested in the positive results of this event, only diminishing the attempt for what it wasn't by your own standard, and thats certainly respectable, I shan't argue with that by any means... after all, freely expressed views also contributes to the diversity of second life.