Twestival: Twitter and Second Life Together Make A Difference

February 18th, 2009  |  by  |  published in SL Entrepreneur Magazine, SLENTRE.COM Magazine Feature Articles

By Emmett Burnett Five times a day, 15-year-old Jean-Bosco Shy walks a Rwandan jungle trail in search of water. Carrying a jug on his head and thirst in his soul, he reaches his destination; a pool of murky goo villagers call “drinking water.” Jean-Bosco is lucky because, in the next 24 hours, over four thousand […]

Second Life’s NOAA Weather Island: “A Cool Place To Experience A Tsunami Without Being Killed”

January 21st, 2009  |  by  |  published in SL Entrepreneur Magazine, SLENTRE.COM Magazine Feature Articles

By CompE Lockwood, aka Emmett Burnett “You’ve got to try the “Tsunami thingy,” an excited Linn said, explaining the virtual killer wave. “It is amazing.” Perhaps “thingy” isn’t the first descriptive noun the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wanted to use when referring to an attraction on their weather island. But they gladly accept “amazing,” […]

Real Life in Second Life: RL Businesses Must Go Beyond SL Advertising

December 10th, 2008  |  by  |  published in Real Life in Second Life

    Editorial By Feldpar Epstein It’s rare to hear about real life business success stories in Second Life. The big ticket names – Pontiac, Adidas, Reebok, AOL, BMW, Aloft – seem to come – and then go. More to the point, they rush in with a big, splashy musical number and then take one […]

Second Life News: Free TV Friday From Hi-FIve

November 19th, 2008  |  by  |  published in Second Life News

By Nicolo Luminos HI-FIve™ (HIFI : SLCAPEX) is announcing today that for every avatar that comes to their Product Openhouse Friday November 21, they will give away a free television – no strings attached. The Free TV event is to take place at 2pm, 6pm and 8pm SLT.

Sigma-Aldrich in Second Life: The Right Chemistry

November 19th, 2008  |  by  |  published in SLENTRE.COM Magazine Feature Articles

By Feldspar Epstein The Sigma- Aldrich company specializes in assisting researchers in their work. The product lines, each under a different brand name, cover the life sciences, biochemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, analytical and chromatographic work, research essentials, equipment, books and, last but not least, large scale chemistry. Their customers are primarily in the educational, governmental, […]

Second Life News: The SLAgency Presenting At National Conference of State Legislatures

July 23rd, 2008  |  by  |  published in Second Life News

Virtual World Marketing Expert to Present on Government Usage of Virtual Worlds at National Conference of State Legislatures Leigh Rowan, VP of Interactive Marketing for virtual worlds marketing firm TheSLAgency, will present at 8:00AM on Friday July 25 on a panel entitled “A New Life for Online Government.” Rowan’s presentation at the NCSL will focus […]