The SLENZ Update – No 94, June 2, 2009

Yes Mildred, MUVEs do pay their way … Another take  on  the  real value of immersive technologies Just what is the business value or ROI (Return on Investment) of using immersive technologies in the marketplace? It’s not a question that would immediately spring to the mind of most educators and academics  but the answer to [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 73 , April 29, 2009

SL:  import-export with ‘SLENZ Shuffle’ The new ‘Arfur Daley’? Import-export “expert” bot, SLENZ Shuffle, with creator, Toddles Lightworker SLENZ Shuffle? Well he might not be the new “Arfur Daley” (of TV Minder fame) but it looks like he might be able to do a good job in the virtual world import-export business. He has already successfully [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 65, April 8, 2009

Coming to a screen near you Another Second Life may live behind firewall at your work IBM in Second Life … now trialling stand-alone Second Life Business and sometimes academic administrators’ worries about the lack of security of intellectual property within Second Life  appear to be about to be put to rest by Linden Labs with [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 59, March 21, 2009

SL training & orientation Business meetings: a lesson for teachers? The experience gained from doing business and holding business meetings in Second Life are sometimes denigrated by academics as not being applicable to the education or learning situation. However, the recently published IBM case study demonstrated  that  internal meetings  work well within Second Life  while  the [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 52, March 6, 2009

IBM makes face-to-face easier with Sametime 3D Sametime 3D demo IBM is expediting the “marriage” between “virtual world” Web sites, and “unified communications and collaboration tools” — technology that links such things as voicemail, audible chat, and instant messaging – allowing  geographically  widely dispersed meeting-goers to teleport themselves from instant message chats to virtual conference [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 38, January 12, 2009

Full SL instruction ‘pays’ Post-secondary school instructors who conduct classes fully in Second Life are significantly more satisfied than those who use Second Life as only a small supplement to a real-world classes, according to an international research project  from the  University of Florida, reported in the Winter 2009 edition of the International Journal of [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 17, October 19, 2008

SL not only option, but … more positive VW view Eduserv Foundation report Second Life is not the only option for teaching, learning and other educational activities in virtual environments according to an autumn 2008 “snapshot” of UK Higher and Further Education developments in Second Life. But it is becoming more positively viewed as an [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 16, October 16, 2008

CPAs get SL picture One  never thinks of  accountants as being enthusiastic about innovation – it can put red on the bottomline – but Australia’s accountants have greeted the concept of Second Life with gusto. Their enthusiasm came after Australian Second Life residents Lee Hopkins (Lee Laperriere), an online communications strategist and Lindy McKeown ( [...]