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Second Life Viewer 2 Beta: Question and Answer with Linden Lab

Metanomics took a good look at the Second Life Viewer 2 beta on March 3rd, with members of the Linden Lab Implementation Team joining us to answer frequently asked questions about their new launch.

Linden Lab’s Esbee Linden, Viewer Product Manager and Amanda Linden, Executive Director, Product Marketing, joined Robert Bloomfield and Dusan Writer on Wednesday, March 3rd at 12pm PT to answer viewer questions about the new Second Life viewer, which was launched on February 23rd. You can find it here.

Dusan Writer hosted the episode, while Robert Bloomfield fielded questions from the audience. Dusan has written extensively about Second Life’s UI, and sponsored a UI design competition two years ago.

Guest Biographies

Esbee Linden

Sarah Hutchinson (Esbee Linden – pronounced “S.B.”) is the Product Manager for the Viewer. With Linden Lab for about 16 months, Sarah began her time at Linden Lab as the Program Manager for the Viewer 2 project working with design and engineering teams to plan out, schedule, and implement the new Viewer, and moved over to Product Management in the fall to focus more on driving our vision for the future of the Second Life Viewer. She is a long-time Resident of Second Life with experience building, scripting, exploring, blogging, and was active in the Mentor program during its tenure.

Prior to working at Linden Lab, Sarah was an Interactive Developer and Designer with 15 years of experience in the Interactive/Web-space, working with web companies and agencies large and small – including Organic, where she was the lead engineer for the Dodge International Team. Her most recent job as Interactive Lead at a small start-up drew her even closer to Second Life where she worked with small to mid-size companies teaching them how to lever the power of Second Life to change the way they do business.

Amanda Linden

Amanda Van Nuys is the Executive Director of Product Marketing at Linden Lab, responsible for marketing Second Life to both the consumer and enterprise markets. She joined the company in October 2009 as the Executive Director of Enterprise Marketing driving all business, government, education, and non-profit marketing activities at the Lab. During that time, she launched Second Life Work microsite (http://work.secondlife.com) the Working Inworld blog (https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/workinginworld), and published numerous case studies (http://work.secondlife.com/en-US/successstories) showcasing how organizations are working successfully in Second Life.

Prior to Linden Lab, Amanda was the Vice President of Marketing at Organic, a digital agency, where she worked with Linden Lab’s CEO Mark Kingdon—then CEO of Organic. Amanda has held other marketing roles in marketing communications, strategic marketing, analyst relations, competitive analysis, and brand management at Regis McKenna, Sybase, Novell, and Scient. Most notably, she led the Competitive War Room at Novell for Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Novell and now the CEO of Google.