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Should you or your organization be in Second Life?
The Gartner Group predicts that more than 80% of all online users will be immersed in a 3D web environment by late 2011. General Motors, Coca Cola, Dell, Cisco, SAP, Microsoft and many other corporations are
already there. Credit courses are being offered by more than 25 institutions of higher learning. There are many nonprofits in Second Life that are extending their real world reach through a collaborative region
called Plush Nonprofit Commons.
With an average user age of 36 and a membership growing by 20,000 a day SL is reaching the marketing sweet spot. Memberships have grown from 1.2 million in October 2006, to more than 6
million today. Thirty percent of new members are from countries other than the U.S., so your presence can reach an international audience.
Everything in SL is user-created from simple tools provided by Linden Labs, the developers and owners of the enabling software and hardware. There is in-world commerce that exceeds
$1.5 million per day, with SL banks, realtors, and contract lawyers! You may choose between mature or PG worlds, or purchase your own region and manage it securely for your target audience..
Second Life is the first commercially successful 3D environment that is NOT a game.
GA's Goal:
Grozik Associates wants your virtual experience to match your real world marketing, training and PR needs. Our team of SL experts handles all of the details from the needs analysis
through sim design and buildout to insuring an exceptional experience for your future visitors.
Second Life tools enable two-way data exchange so in-world users may purchase real world goods and services. SL business meetings may use streaming media, PowerPoint
presentations, podcasts, RSS feeds, spatial sound, VOIP, and interactive objects to enahce thinking productivity.
We invite you to contact us for a guided tour of this incredible, imagnative environment! The following Second Life URL's (SLURL's) will take you to our offices and builds in progress.
You will need to download and install a free SL client, create an avatar and learn a bit about navigating in SL to maximize your experience. Or contact us, and we will loan you one of our
seasoned avatars to use and take you (and your new avatar) on a personal guided tour.
( Request a tour > SL(at) grozikassociates.com)
SLURLs (Please click on the underlined text below to link or copy and paste the full
SLURL into your browser of choice. (Windows or MAC OS)
GA Home Base> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meyonohk/180/240/52
Office space, when you arrive, please click on the button to the left of the door to enter. You may also use
teleport globes on the deck to teleport to our VR room and holodeck. You may use the teleport globe in the
conference room to visit our lower level. A globe there brings you back up or you can following the winding stairwell between levels.
Production Holodeck> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meyonohk/170/214/49
The holodeck is adjacent to the GA home base. This space allows us to create complex 3D scenes that
change with a simple click of a button by visitors. Full instructions are on the wall of the holodeck to your
right as you enter. Since this is a production space, not all holodeck features may be available when you visit.
(Active holodeck is available throught eh Plush Nonprofit Commons link below.) Outside the holodeck door are
two teleport globes that link to our 30 meter cube virtual reality room in the sky above or back to our home base next door.
Virtual Reality Room> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meyonohk/175/223/126
The VR room is in the sky about 100 meters above the holodeck. When you arrive in the VR room, please
click on a thumbnail image on one of the panels on the viewing platform to change the VR scene. The new image will appear and sharpen after a brief delay. The teleport globes on the platform will return you to our
home base or the holodeck.
Plush Nonprofit Commons>http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons
/55/128/26
This region houses the SL offices for a growing SL world of nonprofits. GA sponsors a nonprofit, Digital
Campfires Foundation (DCF), that is a leader in the region. DCF collaborates with the other NP's in SL to help
meet its mission of bridging the socio-digital divide. There is fully functional holodeck in Space 8 at this location that was installed by GA and is used extensively by other NP's on the sim.
(DCF's website is at> www.digitalcampfiresfoundation.org)
Usability Island> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Usability%20Island/153/48/31
This is an interesting new build that provides spacefor companies to test users' SL experiences and the SL
user interface. Grozik Associates has a test area in space 109 on Usability Island and has installed a variety of interactive games and media services.
Builds in Progress:
Lantau Island> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lantau/118/110/28
This is a four sim (region) build that will completed mid-summer, 2007. Several thousands primatives (prims)
will be used to complete this region. From the steam punk look at ground level to the 4 sim skycity being
created abovve, this will one of the more impressive new SL environments. Our team, led by Perefim Cao (SL)
is responsible for the complete project from terraforming the regions through final design and maintenance. Please visit often and watch its progress.
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