Previously I have discussed the interface of the standard Second Life client. But on this post I’m looking at how people can step up beyond their usual real world methods when giving a presentation or talk in Second Life (SL). Now I’m not an expert on Second Life, but I have noticed a few things that work and don’t work when presenting a talk. Most of them are really simple if you think about it. But we are making way too may assumptions that Second Life works like Real Life (RL).

When doing a presentation in Second Life:

These are the base notes and transcript of my Podcamp Perth presentation on Saturday 27 October 2008. There was a videoed as well, how well this comes out given the poor lighting in the room and the fact that I tend to walk around the room and chat with the audience remains to be seen. Please note that the presentation slides will not make much sense without these notes, then again the transcript is not a really good information source in a pure text format, plus I have a habit of diverting from the defined script all the time. When I have the audio I will slidecast the presentation.

I have discussed Second Life previously. It’s the imersive 3D world by Linden Labs. It’s the type of online application that doesn’t really sit anywhere that can be categorised. With Second Life, I find you tend to visit, gain interest then leave, maybe you come back from time to time, maybe you don’t. Second Life does tend to have a high attrition rate (up to 85%).