Second Life Pros

Ariella Furman makes real money in virtual worlds. How? Building presences in Second Life, using her film and media arts degree.
He was fascinated by Disney World when she went there for her first summer vacation as a college graduate, and when she got back to Ivyland, in Bucks County, she decided to invest her time in making machinimas (videos) in Second Life.
Here you can find a long and interesting interview to Ariella, which I suggest you to read.
In my view, those forms of art are perfectly meaningful in Second Life, and here art may be even less expensive and more …read more

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Claudio Ricci, Assisi’s Mayor in both First and Second Life, will be at unAcademy, tonight at 9pm italian time (12pm PST).
The topic will be: relationship between citizens, and their representatives, with a focus on new tools and media, such as Second Life.

I’m proud to see that Claudio Ricci is becoming a benchmark for these kind of topics: he is a bright innovator, and when I first described him my activity in Second Life, he immediately understood its importance.
This is his baptism with Second Life, and another article that gives more details.
Good luck Claudio!

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One year ago, Linden Lab activated my nice Assisi Island, on which we built the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
In one year, we had about a dozen outages, and some bandwidth issues, but in general the service has been quite good.
It seems AGES, but it’s just one year!

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(you can watch the VIDEO OF THE VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE BASILICA)
Last friday, I had the pleasure to host Andrea Benassi (from Florence, Italy), and five students from New York City, in my “masterpiece”, the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (here the SLURL, if you know what a SLURL is).
We were in company of Costanza, an italian official tour guide, which usually accompanies real people in the real Basilica, and this time had the opportunity and pleasure to do so in Second Life.

You can watch the VIDEO OF THE VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE BASILICA, and take a look at …read more

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The Mayor of Assisi, Claudio Ricci (avatar name: ClaudioRicci Republic), came again in Second Life few hours ago. Every two thursdays (next one will be 3rd april), at 5pm CET (8am PST), for one hour, the Mayor will welcome people in Assisi and answer their questions.
Here some screeshots (if you see, there is a small man in the middle: his avatar name was SilvioBerlusconi something… he was playing as the ex-prime minister of Italy and entepreneur Mr. Berlusconi, with audio files of his real voice. Cool!).

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Today, Thursday the 21st of February, at 5pm italian time (CET), or as you prefer 9am PST, the Mayor of Assisi will come in Second Life for his second virtual meeting with his electors (after the first successful one), and curious people from around the world.
The place is Virtual Assisi.
The topic is ARTISTIC GARBAGE BINS.

In Real Life, in fact, the mayor, Engineer Claudio Ricci, is launching an initiative to decorate every garbage bin in Assisi with artistic paintings, like the one you can see above.
It’s a nice and warm way to “hide” the sad aspect of modern trash, and to …read more

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As you know, yesterday, at 5pm italian time, the Mayor of Assisi, Claudio Ricci (avatar name: Claudioricci Republic), went “public”, for the first time, ready to listen an answer to his citizens, and to people from anywhere in the world.
The event has been a great success, with more than 30 avatars attending!

They spoke about the accessibility for handicapped people, about the “Mattonata” (a street with bricks that have names on them), about other initiatives in Second Life.
People were generally impressed by this move, which puts the mayor of Assisi closer to the people.
Next meeting: thursday, 22nd february, at 5pm italian …read more

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Tomorrow, 7th february, at 5pm italian time (8am in California, 11am in New York), the mayor of Assisi will be connected in Second Life, and be available to answer any question (in english and italian) about Assisi. ANYTHING!
I suggest you to attend!

This is the SLURL of the place (you can find it under “assisi” in the search box too).

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Do you know Assisi? It’s a small roman/medieval town in middle Italy, right between Florence and Rome. Sat on a hill (“asisium” in latin means “sat down”), it was the home of Francesco Bernardone, who later in XIII century become Saint Francis of Assisi. They built a huge church and convent to celebrate him, the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
It’s my home town, and I love franciscan principles, even though I’m not a fervent catholic
The mayor of Assisi, Engineer Claudio Ricci, is a bright intellectual, with a taste and much knowledge on architecture, tourism and marketing.
Tomorrow (26th …read more

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For three super-secret reasons, I was able to get an avatar with MY OWN REAL NAME, that is Simone Brunozzi! Awesome! Just in time for the virtual Job Fair in Luxembourg, starting tomorrow!
This is a picture of myself in the SIM of Assisi.

I know, it’s just the basic male avatar, I need to work on it!
Still, it’s awesome!
If you are famous, if you are holding an important event, or if your organization is working in Second Life and doing huge things, or for other misterious reasons, you can get a VANITY NAME too.
Warning: it’s long, and difficult, and costs 100 …read more

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