Inside the Avatar Studio
Inside the Avatar Studio (IAS)
Inside The Avatar’s Studio (IAS) brings together innovative leaders from the virtual technology frontier to discuss perceptions, perspectives, and predictions of what ‘being virtual’ means in today’s society.
Guest speakers discuss current issues and trends surrounding the implications virtual experiences based on their own areas of subject matter expertise.
Host: Kevin Feenan (SL: Phelan Corrimal), President of Rockcliffe University Consortium
Rockcliffe Rotunda (Second Life), Rockcliffe University Consortium
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20Library/243/12/29
Filmed Live & Simultaneously Broadcast by Metaverse Television: www.metaversetv.com/live
In Conversation with Maria Korolov: The Voice of Region
Thursday, February 16, 2012 – 3:00PM SL/PST (6PM EST, 11:00PM UK)
As the “all knowing, all seeing” editor and publisher behind Hypergrid Business, Maria Korolov has been a much acclaimed journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters and ComputerWorld with more than twenty years in the field, at home and abroad from locations as varied as Russia and China.
Turning her keen sense of journalistic integrity and focused vision toward virtual worlds as an economic guru and avid supporter in this field, she has a written flair for the trends and their wide reaching implications.
She will bring engagement and insight on the topics concerning new developments in related technologies which make possible the expansion and widespread adoption of virtual environments, such as Vivox voice services in OpenSim, and the rapid expansion in both the number of grids and regions.
This week, join Kevin and Maria as they explore the nature of virtual worlds business models and how the transformations over the past several years have paved the way for innovations and impacted the growth or decline of the industry as whole.
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Bios
Kevin Feenan (SL: Phelan Corrimal)
Kevin is a management consultant with over 20 years experience in education, business, and information management. An MBA from the University of Toronto, Kevin developed Rockcliffe University Consortium in 2006 from the ground up using virtual collaboration tools. Kevin has presented at numerous conferences around the world specificially in the areas of virtual collabolation, knowledge emergence, and educational paradigms.
Elisa Butler (SL: Bevan Whitfield)
Elisa Butler is an international marketing and social media consultant. Elisa got her start in virtual worlds in 2007 and has been the driving force behind various social media marketing campaigns including those for Rockcliffe University Consortium and Metanomics.