Many thanks to Justin Downs for his presenation at our last meetup!
Based on my last presentation in October, you're probably all familiar with the online world Second Life, and some of you may have even tried it out. For those of you that haven't, here's your motivation to give it a shot!
Our next meetup will be within the virtual world of Second Life. We'll be meeting up with Dr. Ann Buchanan, the founder of the Ann Myers Medical Center. Some of you may have read the conversation I had with Dr. Ann and her co-director, CC Carnell, a couple of weeks ago for the Avelient BioPharm Blog. They are very excited to be hosting this event, so please be sure to join us! Space will be limited (we don't want to overload their server!) so reserve your time now!
The Ann Myers Medical Center was created by Dr. Ann Buchanan in honor of her mother to promote online collaboration of medical professionals without the boundary of long distance. At any time during the day, you may see people at the center who are sitting at their home computer in Spain, Russia, California, or Canada, just to name a few spots. They hope to grow the center into a cutting edge place for learning and medical assistance, and with the help of the Sprott-Shaw College in British Columbia, Canada, they are making that dream a reality.
To join us on this unique adventure, you must have a computer capable of installing and running the Second Life client software, which can be found by clicking here. Follow the installation instructions and take the brief tutorial in order to become familiar with the interface and navigating your avatar throughout the world.
If you need some assistance setting up the software, Linden Labs, the software's creator, has several resources available to help you out. You can certainly send me a question and I'll help you as best I can as well.
Once you are online, request friendship with "Lupino Benazzi," which is the name of my avatar. I will give you further instructions from there.
I hope you are all well, and I look forward to your participation with me in this virtual realm!
“ I'm from France, so it was a great experience. ”
“ A great event. Our hosts were more than accommodating, and the presentation was fantastic. Based on the feedback I receive, I may try to run more of these meetings online! ”
“ I thought it was really helpful. Second Life is an amazing technology that could be useful for so many people. We were able to interact with people from all over the world. ”
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