5 posts tagged “community”
As many of you know parts of my job include creating new media shorts and immersion experiences for large and small audiences. Some of my work is very much designed for a niche audience, in this case those interested in philanthropy, law and the unique community-building challenges that entangle our digital lives. This emerging field of study has been led by USC, MacArthur and others as we try to chart a productive course through the etheric digital universe.
While some wrestle with the relevance of these spaces I am always encouraged to see 100+ leaders gather together for honest dialogue without the cost of travel or carbon in the air. We can do far better and we will continue to learn how to maximize these experiences for the masses. I for one need to learn how to buy new hard drives faster to keep up with the machinima documentary flubug that keeps infecting my mouse trigger key....lost the bulk of the footage today to a full disk!
I'm looking forward to finding LOVE in 2007 in every possible form. It's a new summer of love, a new year of inquiry into what transformations are happening in our culture that are allowing us to connect in ways never before imagined. We are aligning. We are communicating. What do we need to understand next?
Join me, Beth Kanter, Susan Tenby and Jeska D. from Linden Lab at Games for Change in NYC, June 11-12th:
http://.gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/program.php
The genii are congregating at AMO Island, the game is on. See you there.
If you look closely at the Second Life island you will see a new little island popping up near it: FOOD ISLAND opens this weekend in Second Life and you can visit starting tomorrow! Tons of free food, health and nutrition information, recipes and cooking demonstrations galore are featured on FOOD.
Hello Friends of Amoration and ManorMeta!
Take a minute before 5PM on Monday at vote for ManorMeta at NetSquared Innovation Awards. Your support can help us win vital support; if you had trouble voting leave a comment on our page, email Britt Bravo and tell the NetSquared community that you want to see more of ManorMeta! See more below for details on this innovation award.
It's true...we're moving fast! We've moved offices and virtual spaces.
Our real world offices are located at 5067 W. Washington Blvd, 90016 in the Media Fabricators complex and our new AMO Island in Second Life is our new living learning lab for the virtual world.
Our Better World Island location became too small for our crystalline sanctuary and we wish our friends at Care.org and the Better World Scouts the best wishes as they build amazing aid and activism efforts inworld. We will continue to be active scouts and offer you AMO Island as a resort alternative for visionary communities in development around the world.
AMO Island is opening next week to the public with many project areas in development including an Integral Commons, a martial arts and meditation center, life science studies on brain and heart, the Amoration Amphitheatre, the Nexus Dance community and brilliant visionary artists. As we build you are welcome to join us; speak with In Kenzo directly regarding skylabs and other spheres at AMO. Join us for our first workshops on 4/20 at 6PM (Machinima for Educators) or visit all day during the Digital Be-In.
Our Second Life work is growing very fast and in the coming days we'll preview more of our recent Food Island build opening in early May at the national Food FMI Convention in Chicago. This groundbreaking experience in health and nutrition designed by Amoration team members at the Toyshoppe educates consumers before they hit the stores on how to eat well and enjoy the food around us.
NETSQUARED INNOVATION AWARDS
Thanks to all of you who are voting this week to support amazing innovation efforts! Over the last two years the ManorMeta/Amoration team has worked with over two dozen nonprofit organizations by directly helping these groups grow on the web, with constituents and in the virtual world of Second Life. A handful of the great groups we have worked with are also featured in this award process and we encourage you to get out and vote your passion!
A bit about ManorMeta's new opening on AMO Island in Second Life: we have been busily building a new integrated learning center for many different types of visionary groups to come together and experiment in the 3D collaborative world. Our work is very much in bridgebuilding as we gather a consortium of leaders from all disciplines with a common goal to share stories and solutions for complex world problems. ManorMeta is our living learning lab, but it's also a very complex real world networking system that provides space for innovators to connect. We thank you for giving us this role in your lives and hope you will get out there and vote for some of our partners and friends this week here at NetSquared!
So here's my personal slate for the voting process:
- ManorMeta (disclaimer, this is Amoration's project)
- HOOZE and WAGN
- Global Lives Project
- Anti-Genocide Community
- Building a Community of Modern Abolitionists
- SE Learning Games
- Games for Change
- Targeted development for social empowerment
- SourceTree Commons
- Grassroots.org toolbox
So much of our work is tangible yet unspoken; how do you express the love you put into a meal shared with friends or a ride given in a time of need? Our lives are woven through encounters that do not always add up on a calculator or computer to anything beyond a few hours shared with friends.
I've spent far less time in Second Life lately and more time with people who mean a lot to me.
This week we share our home with 25 environmental educators from Common Vision and we're thrilled to have a house full of energy, warmth, nourishment and love. I'm bringing a few new clients into the virtual world soon and will be launching back in after moving into new offices this week with my AMO team here in LA and points all over. If you want to join the AMO team as a consultant, volunteer, advisor or intern now is a great time to get in touch! Email inkenzo at gmail - com with your interests, skillsets and examples of work that you're happy to share.
Next week I'll be sharing more about a new blog with more green leaders (go green fairy!) along with details about our new Second Life islands emerging. For now, meet one of our AMO team members keeping me in line, Jean Russell of Nurture.biz (Yes Bright in Second Life, pictured here at Powell's Books in Portland). Jean's job at AMO is to help refine the language, concepts and articulation we use to talk about the AMO Community. She's a master network weaver and connector with a gift for creating caring communities and we're thrilled she's helping us grow the AMO studio team. View more of the people behind AMO in our Flickr book.
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