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Second Life in the Second City: The SL Community Conference
I've just been back and forth from ALA to the Chicago Hilton and back (via the 146 going south and the 3 going north) so I can start this blog about the Second Life Community Conference (SLCC) that began this evening. I would have stayed longer and gone home to blog this, but the same storm that made travel here for out-of-town attendees a nightmare has knocked out electricity all over the Chicagoland area. (I also needed to get business cards because that is still SOP for this kind of event!) I just wish I had the fancy cards some of my SL friends carry where they have a screen cap of their avatar on one side and the dull first life contact information on the other.
And mentally, I wasn't certain about how this would go. I'm an introvert and not wild about big gatherings, although ALA Conferences have given me greater confidence in facing crowds, I also know who to expect and look for. Here, I haven't a clue! And how could I? Anyone with whom I might be familiar isn't going to look familiar unless I can get a good glance at their namebadge and possibly recognize their avatar! Not likely with my eyesight!
Looking at the program is a chuckle! Everyone has two names! I actually threw off the person at the registration table because my badge name, which we were encouraged to create for ourselves, isn't the name I registered under! So I look forward with trepidation to tomorrow where we're all introducing ourselves with multiple names!
But it's all about community and the first time is always this way. And if all goes well, the second time around, I will know faces to go with the avatars and avatar names! Wish me luck!
More tomorrow!
And mentally, I wasn't certain about how this would go. I'm an introvert and not wild about big gatherings, although ALA Conferences have given me greater confidence in facing crowds, I also know who to expect and look for. Here, I haven't a clue! And how could I? Anyone with whom I might be familiar isn't going to look familiar unless I can get a good glance at their namebadge and possibly recognize their avatar! Not likely with my eyesight!
Looking at the program is a chuckle! Everyone has two names! I actually threw off the person at the registration table because my badge name, which we were encouraged to create for ourselves, isn't the name I registered under! So I look forward with trepidation to tomorrow where we're all introducing ourselves with multiple names!
But it's all about community and the first time is always this way. And if all goes well, the second time around, I will know faces to go with the avatars and avatar names! Wish me luck!
More tomorrow!
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