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The expansion of real-world-like activities being experimented with in Second Life is reported by a Washington Post article. Singer Susan Vega reccently did a small concert in Second Life via her avatar. There’s a long way to go to make virtual reality appealing to the average person, but the appeal is identified in this quote: "A virtual world brings something ...

The ACS pantheon of web sites has an new member: relayforlife.org. It’s a platform for Relay For Life enthusiasts–and there are many. It’s the beginning of a RFL ecommunity. You can participate in forums, have a blog, and form a buddylist. Check it out!

I just found a blog about nonprofits that I’d like to plug: nonprofiteye. It’s written by LA blogger Pam Ashlund. Her post on the NetSquared blog asks the same question Lisa was asking the other day: Where’s the innovation in nonprofits? How do you get it cookin’ in your organizaton? Anyway, I like Pam’s style and her attitude. Check it ...

I was the training director around here maybe 10 years ago, and I still get catalogs from companies pitching their seminars. But something in a slick Gartner Symposium promotional piece that landed in my inbox today caught my attention. One of the seminars listen under "What’s hot?" is titled "The Consumerization of IT." It says, in part: Falling prices and ...