We send greetings to all of you who are visiting our website and our Blog.
I am Chant Newall, William Prensky in Real Life, CEO of CNDG, exploring and helping co-create a world of interactivity in Second Life.
We at CNDG would like to welcome you all to our ongoing discussion about working in the Virtual World, and the business case for Second Life as a platform and venue for training, education and business information sharing and collaboration in the 21st century.
We have all experienced an explosive growth in communications and the globalization of information sharing over the past 4 decades. From fax machines and the earliest email systems, to the modern world of instant information sharing in Twitter and Texting, our virtual webs of connectivity have grown and continue to grow.
Second Life, and the Metaverse, represent the most advanced 360 degree virtual involvement for collaboration and training yet seen, and in these pages we will share a conversation about how this new medium of communication can affect all of us, and effect a change in how we impact the environment, how we reach out to one another, and how we learn.
Second Life represents the leading edge of the trend towards “Web 2.0” development. The early part of this century has witnessed the transition of websites from isolated information silos to sources of content and functionality that interact with the viewer and engage more of the viewer’s attention and senses. This, in turn, has led to a social phenomenon which embraces an approach to generating and distributing Web content itself.
The new internet builds applications and solutions for business and individuals which involve the user in dramatically new ways, and which are open-ended – mimicking more and more the realities of real-time communication but with all the advantages of a 24/7 access for users around the world.
This new approach is characterized by:
- Open communication between people distributed around the world, in widely separated communities, as well as “just around the corner”,
- Decentralization of authority and the ability to redistribute information and add to it quickly and efficiently, and
- Freedom to share and re-use information to inform and educate.
CNDG is a Gold Solution Provider to Linden Lab, developer and owner of the Second Life Platform which has over 15 million users world-wide. In a collaborative partnership with Linden Lab, CNDG works with clients to develop the phenomenon that the Conference Board has described as:
- 3D
- Internet –based
- Simulated
- Including social networking communities
- Where interaction takes place in real time
- Which are immersive environments in which we can re-construct a virtual version of reality
- Where options are limited only by constantly developing new and immersive software programs
- And which can be based on real-life communities, absolute renderings of real-world environments or worlds which can be built “beyond the limits of time and space”
We invite you to share with us your own thoughts, experiences and comments about the Virtual World, and explore with us the expanding limits of the “possible”. Please feel free to post comments, ask questions, and to express your thoughts here. On a regular basis our team of designers, builders, project managers and educators will post their own thoughts about what they are doing, how they are experiencing, and the future they see for the Metaverse. We invite you to do the same.
Welcome to CNDG’s Second Life – Welcome to a new world of communication, collaboration, and change.
