December 2006 - Posts

• So what do commercials look like for products that don't have the limitations of reality?

  There was an ad competition in Second Life recently where competitors got to create a video in SL w/ any SL product or service. Take a look at the winners . I got to say Trent Hedges truley understands Second Life vs Real Life and did a great job playing Read More... Posted 22 December 2006 10:53 by Heather McConnell | 1 Comments

• Second Life population: 2 million or drastically less?

  When I initially visited Second Life a couple months ago it had just started to receive a good amount of news coverage. My gauge of course is based on my Google news alerts, which were a couple blog postings every day or two with a news article here and Read More... Posted 22 December 2006 00:12 by Heather McConnell | 0 Comments

• The pros and CONS of Social Media

  Second Life was getting a lot of good publicity in the last couple months with all the new companies moving in, including news organizations like CNet and Reuters and especially with the virtual millionaire, Anshe Chung. I haven't been able to read the Read More... Posted 21 December 2006 23:41 by Heather McConnell | 1 Comments Attachment(s): cnet copy.jpg

• Little Miss Sunshine

  If I thought long and hard about it I might be able to relate this to Social Media and/or PR, however I'm going to just cut straight to the chase here and say go see Little Miss Sunshine. This is seriously one of the best films I've seen in a very long Read More... Posted 21 December 2006 23:18 by Heather McConnell | 0 Comments Attachment(s): sunshine4.jpg

• Second Life through the eyes of a working mom

  I came across this article today in the Toronto Star and thought it was a good explanation of how average users, in this case a working mom in Toronto, are experiencing Second Life for the first time. Below is some interesting information from Adam Pasnick, Read More... Posted 11 December 2006 08:43 by Heather McConnell | 1 Comments

• Socia Media is about two-way communication

  I wrote a comment on my entry Is Social Media a fad? basically saying that as PR professionals we need to leverage communication tools available right now for disseminating messages. It’s been bugging me ever since I wrote it, b/c I used the wrong terminology Read More... Posted 02 December 2006 17:38 by Heather McConnell | 2 Comments