Metanomics Community Forum and News
For 2010.Aug.05

Metanomics is still on summer break, but this week at the Metanomics Community Forum we are joined (despite the heat) by Bevan Whitfield and Rose Springvale to explore Community in Virtual Environments. Bevan is a premiere network and  community builder and brings that expertise to her many projects and experiences in Second Life. Rose is an attorney irl, and currently serves as the Leader of the Al Andulus regions here in Second Life.Together they have a depth of knowledge and insight that should make for an interesting hour. Bring your questions and comments to the Metanomics Studio, Thursday, Aug 5th at 12pm SLT    

This Weeks News from our Metanomics Community Members:
Links are added where available but join the Metanomics Group in-world, or stop by a Metanomics Subscription Board to get a notecard complete with additional embedded notecards with far more detail.

~ Pooky Amsterdam interviews Howard Rheingold:
SmartMob’s Stephanie Gerson comments:
“Thanks to Pooky Amsterdam for posting her engaging interview with Howard Rheingold, conducted in the beautiful Da Vinci Gardens, Kalepa in Second Life. The two discuss current trends and social implications of modern information and communication technologies, including Howard’s latest focus, namely mindfulness as a digital literacy. 

~Svea Morane shares news of a Mayo Clinic Presentation
Dr. Paul Friedman is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic with an appointment in the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases. This lecture takes place today, Aug 4th at 2:30pm SLT. 
Mayo Clinic conference center, Mayo Clinic island
(Additional Notecard in-World)

~Lots of newsfrom our friends at UWA:
UWA Professor wins Pearson Prize for Virtual World Study
A/Professor Wade Halvorson (SL: Wad Halberstadt) of the School of Business, University of Western Australia (UWA) has won the Pearson Education Prize for the best Case Study paper at the July 2010 Academy of Marketing Conference. The Academy of Marketing annual conference is the largest academic marketing conference in the United Kingdom, and was held this year at Coventry University Business School.  
(Additional Notecard in-World)

~“Rezzing Prims and Painting the Future”
SLCC is next week, Aug 13-15 in Boston. Dusan Writer will be a featured keynote and we’ll be streaming the events there at the Metanomics studio.  Philip Linden/Rosedale  and John Lester (formerly known as Patherfinder Linden) are also speaking. Here’s the schedule

Join us this Thursday and every Thursday for the MCF at 12pm SLT. If you are unable to join us in Second Life, the program will also be broadcast to the web, complete with a chatbridge link so that you can participate in the conversation. On our website

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