Becky Mactavish – Who?

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I stumbled across this fantastic blog article about a conference and world cafe held in Second Life!

So what is Second Life I hear you ask? Well, Wikipedia explains –

Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the Internet. A free client program called the Second Life Viewer[1] enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world, which residents refer to as the grid. Second Life is for people aged 18 and over, while Teen Second Life is for people aged 13 to 17.

I am in love with the idea of how the future may hold more and more opportunities like this where we can communicate and discuss topics of interest with people (in a virtual setting) with people from all over the world.

I had a go at logging in to Second Life and became Becky Mactavish for a few hours but I need a bit more guidance as to what to actually do! She just wandered around aimlessly looking a bit of a mess (you can change the way your avatars look) and was a million miles from participating in anything so grand as a world cafe or conference!

Visit Second Life for yourself and have a go!