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Thanks to everyone who came out and helped make Orange Presents: Identity Summit such a success! We held an avatar concurrency of between 50 and 80 throughout the day, and while the sim complained about the load (especially with all of us non-human avs around!), it held up relatively well with only some lag problems.

The transcripts of the event are available on the Orange Island blog: Panel Transcripts

Photos are available on the Metaversatility Flickr Stream and Torley’s Flickr stream. SLNN covered the event with an excellent article, as well.

On Friday, November 16, Orange Island [slurl] will host a series of discussions by Second Life residents and community leaders on the nature of identity and avatars. Panels will address such topics as non-human avatars, avatars as personas, and avatars as personal brands. Speakers joining us on these panels include: Ordinal Malaprop, Torley Linden, Celebrity Trollop, Michi Lumin, and Forseti Svarog. In addition to the panels, open-ended discussion is encouraged during exhibits throughout the day. Everyone is welcome to listen, share, and discuss these fascinating issues.

Leading in to the Identity Summit, Orange Island is hosting an Avatar Showcase on the plaza at 10am Thursday November 15. Residents are invited to present their most unique and interesting avatar in this two hour event. The top three avatars will have their portraits made and displayed during one of the gallery exhibitions during the following day’s discussions.
Orange Island is a community site sponsored by Orange to foster and encourage resident collaboration, innovation, and creativity. The Identity Summit is only the first in a series of Orange Presents discussion days, and is part of a robust events schedule that includes classes, games, exploration, and discussions. To get involved with the Orange community in Second Life, stop by the island and talk to the staff: Fandango Milena, Fab Outlander, and Moe Anderton. Events announcements and community opportunities are sent via SL group, Orange Island, and posted on our blog, http://www.orange-island.com

Contact Adri Saarinen (adri@metaversatility.com) or Haver Cole ( haver@metaversatility.com) for more information.

Identity Summit Schedule

Thursday, November 15

10am -12pm – Avatar Showcase
(participants are encouraged to register with Haver Cole (haver@metaversatility.com ) prior to the event to ensure they will have a chance to present.)

Friday, November 16

9am – 10am – Avatar as a Personal Brand
Speakers: Torley Linden, Celebrity Trollop, and Saeya Nyanda
Moderator: Haver Cole

10am – 11am – Open Discussion on Avatar and Brand Identity

11am – 12pm – Persona and Identity Transparency in Business
Speakers: Ordinal Malaprop, Forseti Svarog

12pm – 1pm – Open Discussion and Gallery Showing of Avatar Showcase Winners

1pm – 2pm – Non-Human Avatars
Speakers: NeoBokrug Elytis, Kumi Kuhr, Michi Lumin
Moderator: Adri Saarinen

2pm – 3pm – Open Discussion and Gallery Showing of You and Your Avatar photos

3pm – 5pm – Wind Down Mixer and Discussions
Music and entertainment by DJ Doubledown Tandino

We’ve been proud to expand our Scion project in There.com. Working in collaboration with Makena we’ve managed to put together a veritable rainbow palette for users that would ‘pimp’ their proverbial ‘ride,’ as it where…..if you will… ergo

VWN has a pretty cool article about it, keep an eye or two out for the press release, more articles, or the grand national giganto-car championship trophy.

In other news, Radiohead’s on the air again, first time in 5 or 6 years if Meta-guesstimations are correct. Godbless those boys.

Just wanted to post a quick message thanking the 800+ community members who took time to respond to our resident survey. The frequency counts and cross-tabulations on the close-ended questions are revealing, and the respondents’ thoughtful responses to the open-ended questions are deeply informative. Our sponsors are committed to sharing the findings with the SL community, so you will eventually have a chance to dig through the data yourselves.

As a participation incentive, all survey respondents were entered into a drawing for SL prizes. The drawing has taken place, and we are currently tracking down the sweepstakes winners in world. Keep an eye on this blog for further updates about the sweepstakes and about the survey findings.

Thanks!

Aaron Delwiche

Congratulations and a big thank you to the Metaversatility-Orange team for a successful press day! Thanks especially to the build team, Menno Ophelia, Colleen Desmoulins, Saeya Nyanda, Chip Poutine, and Kriss Lehmann, and to our community manager, Haver Cole!

In addition to an excellent day of sneak peek events on our biggest project yet, MV also celebrated its first incorporation anniversary today! I’d like to say we celebrated with oysters and champagne, but the reality is, I think we hardly noticed. With the Orange celebration concerts and the USC/Center for Public Diplomacy Jazzplomacy events tomorrow, in addition to a heavy project load and active, post-conference sales efforts, I have to admit, we’ve all been a little too busy to celebrate. Hopefully we’ll have time to break out the champagne soon!

It has been a long time coming, but Metaversatility is proud to announce the opening of Orange Island in Second Life. On behalf of the entire OrangeSL Team, we’d like to invite you to celebrate with us this Friday morning with a concert and island tour.

The folks over at Virtual Worlds News have posted a great summary of many virtual worlds and their reported audience (in both target and numbers).

The timing of this information couldn’t be much better, as the virtual worlds conference quickly approaches, a great venue to promote the virtual worlds space as a whole rather than focusing on just one specific implementation.