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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

Waxing UnLyrical

Yet when we are all going to have to live, and work, and live, in a virtual world for the foreseeable future, not doing this is also not an option. While I didn’t intend for it to be an inadvertent lesson in “how to do a virtual event,” a Facebook Live Q&A I hosted a couple of weeks ago was, apparently, just that.

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. If I had the money and time, I think I would try to make investments in this kind of virtual worlds.

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Sports and The Metaverse – Anima Mundi, AFLMint and Australian Sports

Laurel Papworth

What does the Metaverse offer Sports as far as a future directions, NFTs and revenue, building rituals, rites of passage and membership, as well as driving community engagement? So the idea that we have competition and collaboration working together is an intrinsic part of community building. It’s from Queensland University.

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Blog #3: Global Leaders: On the Innovation Edge

SalesChoice

Blog #2 discussed the history of predictive analytics from the perspective of Artificial Intelligence, and traced leadership from both classical philosophers like: Aristotle, Euclid, in ancient times to covering more modern times, profiling British mathematician Alan Turing. Artificial Intelligence or Disruptive Innovation Community Leaders.

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The time is right for pervasive social gaming

The Way of the Web

Grand Theft Auto is something I already tipped as a potential sure-fire win as a virtual world, and would also lend itself to pervasive gaming (Look at the success of Mob Wars on social networks). I’m just amazed it hasn’t happened in 2009, and definitely predict it’ll occur in 2010.

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What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work? | Computer Writing and Research Lab

Buzz Marketing for Technology

the new jobs require a good deal of formal education and the ability to acquire and to apply theoretical and analytical knowledge. That might involve learning popular time management techniques (Allen 2003) or participating in online communities that face similar problems (Spinuzzi 2003, Ch.6); Virtual Worlds. UT Library.

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