IBM holds Alumni meeting on SecondLife

Philippe Borremans received an invitation to attend IBM's first SecondLife meeting on "Almaden Island" yesterday evening. Yes, your heard correctly, IBM has an island on SecondLife - the 3D online virtual world - and will use it to foster collaboration between employees, ex-employees and industry colleagues. This is part of a bigger alumni network of IBM which today is mostly active on OpenBC with a network group called "The Greater IBM'".

The agenda of the day is simple: meet up at 20H00 Brussels time, fly over to Almaden Island and then they'll hear from Dr. Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), as well as an address from IBM executive Jeanette Horan.

After that - as his colleague who's organizing this in the US wrote - "we'll see what happens"...

Good attitude when it comes down to testing new ways to collaborate and communicate.







(Blogged herefirst / posted under rl meetups as the general forum is closed.. secondly... if there's a linden reading this..think about giving blogs to residents using Koz Farina's bloghud or atleast slstats' live blogs... ; | a community blog without the restrictive barriers on comments would be nice too...)




when will we see "ideas.secondlife.com" go live?

On a slightly related topic:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/administration/course-description

thanks for the heads up... i'd got an email about it earlier and Rebecca at Harvard Law/Global Voices has blogged about the course details on here:

http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/09/joining_second_.html


cheers!

Any other academic institutions/research labs coming into secondlife? Am interested to learn of others.