Check out the latest MBC News for February 4th, 2010.
This week, the team talks about Linden Lab’s acquisition of the social networking site Avatars United as well as getting ready for the last season of Lost and more on this weeks news. Dousa wears green, Siggy wears [hoorenbeek], Lisa wears well, and Mal wears us all out!
Feb 4, 2010
Feb 3, 2010
New Article in the Alphaville Herald
Take a look at my "fairly unbalanced" article on Avatars United, the latest social networked aimed at avatars.
Avatars United: A Social Network Too Far?
There's some discussion on the new site on MBC News.
Avatars United: A Social Network Too Far?
There's some discussion on the new site on MBC News.
Jan 28, 2010
MBC News: 1-27-10 (without Siggs)
Having been forced to spend a week in Florida on business (yeah, dirty job but someone has to do it) the latest MBC News doesn't include me, but it's still worth watching ;)
Crap Mariner talks about his latest project, Tunes In SL.
Crap Mariner talks about his latest project, Tunes In SL.
Jan 21, 2010
MBC News: 1-14-10
Phew! Real life is moving apace and I even had to miss a week on the news because I was in Las Vegas at the annual Consumer Electronics Show - CES 2010. There's a brief report on the show.
The next edition of the news is in the can but I'm due to take another week off for a trip to Orlando. No, I'm not on vacation - I'm doing some training and meeting with our international distributors to work on the 2011 (yes, that's next year) product plans. I mention this by way of an explication as to why my second life is so restricted - the first keeps interfering with it!
MBC News 1-14-2010 from Metaverse TV on Vimeo.
The next edition of the news is in the can but I'm due to take another week off for a trip to Orlando. No, I'm not on vacation - I'm doing some training and meeting with our international distributors to work on the 2011 (yes, that's next year) product plans. I mention this by way of an explication as to why my second life is so restricted - the first keeps interfering with it!
Jan 16, 2010
Link to the Leominster Galleries
The official link to the Leominster Galleries is here:
http://snipr.com/u5gcy
Or use the SLurl: secondlife://Root Squared/236/243/351
There's also more information about specific works at my new site, The Leominster Galleries. The current temporary collection, housed in Gallery IV, is "The Illustrators Collection" and features works by Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, and Gustave Dore.
http://snipr.com/u5gcy
Or use the SLurl: secondlife://Root Squared/236/243/351
There's also more information about specific works at my new site, The Leominster Galleries. The current temporary collection, housed in Gallery IV, is "The Illustrators Collection" and features works by Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, and Gustave Dore.
Jan 1, 2010
The Leominster Galleries: New Old Blog
I'm rebranding my SL on VL site to become The Leominster Galleries. The aim is to provide a web-based support site for my new Second Life-based Leominster Galleries. It's the beginning of 2010 so I'm officially opening the galleries for visitors.
I'll also be starting a group, something I haven't done before. The aim will be to share changes to the gallery to members. I'd also like to think I can find one or two other folks who are as interested in paintings as I am to keep the gallery fresh.
Stop over to The Leominster Galleries and start enjoying your Second Life art experience.
I'll also be starting a group, something I haven't done before. The aim will be to share changes to the gallery to members. I'd also like to think I can find one or two other folks who are as interested in paintings as I am to keep the gallery fresh.
Stop over to The Leominster Galleries and start enjoying your Second Life art experience.
Dec 30, 2009
SLebrity Update: Now I'm Winning!
On January 3rd, 2009, I made a bold - or stupid - prediction; that the word SLebrity would be my promotional "Word if the Year." The aim was to make it much more popular than it was and I intended to use numbers to prove it.
So, I did a Google search and set the baseline:
January 3rd, 2009: The word SLebrity generates 2,730 hits.
As the year progressed, the incidence of the word was - how should I put it? - less than stellar. Three weeks after my announcement of the Word of the Year, the Google hits dropped to 2,630.
Then, by May 19th, the hits had reached a new low: 1,940. If I had been charging people for my skill as a marketing executive, I'd have been having to work hard at dissuading them from asking for their money back!
Things continued to spiral downwards so that by June 23rd, the ghits returned a disappointing 1,660. Clearly there was now a significant lack of evidence for my skills as a promoter being in any shape or form a reality.
But just like pension investments, the trick is to wait long enough. Today I found the ghit rating had rebounded with a vengeance. The count now stands at 10,800! That's four times the original figure on January 3rd and provided it holds until January 3rd, 2010, I can claim victory. The ugly duckling has become a swan with a 400% increase in popularity. In the world of words, SLebrity is now a slebrity!
Now, I realize that the more cynical amongst you may wish to point out that "contingency does NOT equal causality," but that's just a silly statistical argument based on facts. Marketing and promotion is not about facts but perceptions, and I for one will happily sit back and claim that whether you believe there is a causal correlation or not, the fact remains that (a) I claimed I could increase word's ghit count in one year and (b) the ghits have increased fourfold in one year.
So, I did a Google search and set the baseline:
January 3rd, 2009: The word SLebrity generates 2,730 hits.
As the year progressed, the incidence of the word was - how should I put it? - less than stellar. Three weeks after my announcement of the Word of the Year, the Google hits dropped to 2,630.
Then, by May 19th, the hits had reached a new low: 1,940. If I had been charging people for my skill as a marketing executive, I'd have been having to work hard at dissuading them from asking for their money back!
Things continued to spiral downwards so that by June 23rd, the ghits returned a disappointing 1,660. Clearly there was now a significant lack of evidence for my skills as a promoter being in any shape or form a reality.
But just like pension investments, the trick is to wait long enough. Today I found the ghit rating had rebounded with a vengeance. The count now stands at 10,800! That's four times the original figure on January 3rd and provided it holds until January 3rd, 2010, I can claim victory. The ugly duckling has become a swan with a 400% increase in popularity. In the world of words, SLebrity is now a slebrity!
Now, I realize that the more cynical amongst you may wish to point out that "contingency does NOT equal causality," but that's just a silly statistical argument based on facts. Marketing and promotion is not about facts but perceptions, and I for one will happily sit back and claim that whether you believe there is a causal correlation or not, the fact remains that (a) I claimed I could increase word's ghit count in one year and (b) the ghits have increased fourfold in one year.
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