From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Product-Based Avatars For Customer Education

April 29, 2008 Avatars for Learning

Spent yesterday participating in the Virtual Worlds At Work Symposium talking about using virtual worlds for Sales Training. Thanks to Anders Gronstedt for the invitation. While most of my development in Second Life has been around new hire training and leadership, I think there’s a really exciting opportunity for using product avatars for consumer education. [...]

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DCCCD Team Leader, Second Life

April 26, 2008 Second Life

Our move to Dallas continues to get better! Montse was just offered an exciting opportunity as Team Leader/Project Manager for Dallas County Community College’s Second Life initiative. Working with DCCCD, Montse will support the development and integration of Second Life into the Dallas County’s seven colleges. Dallas County Community College District plans to use Second Life [...]

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Communicating Rapid Design Models

April 21, 2008 Humor

We recently completed a design project in three months that was scoped at nine. While I could show you the Visios depicting our design strategy for how we cut corners, enlisted SMEs as developers and reused content, this image pretty much says it all.

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Elearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

April 13, 2008 Conferences

Spent the weekend putting the final touches on my Elearning Guild sim for my Espresso Learning session this week on Second Life and virtual worlds. Espresso sessions are meant to be informal and conversational without slides or handouts, however, I always prefer to have some sort of live demonstration running when talking about Second Life. [...]