Dear Congressmen, Politicians, Law Makers, and the Popular Press, and affiliated people, groups and organizations. Before wasting my time and insulting my intelligence, please get your facts straight! I’m particularly talking to Representative Mark Kirk with his recent call for a consumer-alert warning about Second Life. He claims Second Life is a risk for children and they could be sexually exploited. In the same allegation he states he is unaware of any cases in which children are targeted by sexual predators on Second Life. Rarely have I had my intelligence insulted and my time wasted by your want to create false claims, allegations, and stir the proverbial pot. The reason you insult my intelligence is because you are searching for things, that while exist, do not find you, you find them! He’s not the only one who has made such claims, attacks, and allegations about Second Life. Other politicians and media are very eager to label SL as a sex brothel, or a place for terrorists.

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I saw Iron Man on Monday and it is a great movie!  What I was unaware of was that Iron Man is also in Second Life and doing something pretty cool.  Annie Ok worked on the machinima film (see above) and informed me of an Iron Man in Second Life Contest with the chance of winning $L 100,000 (or roughly $400 USD).  To enter you grab the Iron Man avatar, take pictures in Second Life, join the Iron Man in Second Life Flickr group and upload your pictures to Flickr.  There isn’t much time left as the contest end this Friday, May 9th, at 10 AM PST (1pm EST).  You can grab the press release here or visit the Flickr Group page for full contest details and information.

Today, we’re Chillaxin’, the combination of chillin’ and realxin’.  The new Tuesday weekly event is a combination of downtempo, trip-hop, funk, soul, slasa, latin, and music from the 70’s - 90’s that are silky smooth and deliciously sweet.  Things start at 6pm (9pm EST) at the high.  Come, get your Chillaxin’!

FINALLY!  For the past month I’ve been working on getting registration up and running for the 2008 SLCC.  Today Registration for the 2008 Second Life Community Convention is now open but only to those who attended last year’s SLCC!  Last year we promised that SLCC 2007 attendees will receive tickets, for a limited time, for this year’s convention.  Until May 20th, 2008, any person who has registered for the 2007 SLCC may register for the 2008 SLCC at last year’s ticket price of $185.00 (or $L 52000).  In order to secure this ticket price, you must register with the same name and e-mail address of last year and pay-in-full by May 20th.

Have no fear, everyone will be able to register on May 21st where tickets will be $220.00.

For more information, visit the SLCC Website.

Understanding how to promote yourself, an event, or just to get the word out in Second Life can be a bit of a challenge, even for the professionals have trouble doing it.  There are some tools and resources that are lacking in from the traditional marketing world and Second Life is a mish mash of press and blogs who covers a wide assortment of the action all independent of one another. While there are many methods to reach residents (such as notecard/texture dropping, group notices, and mass IM’s), they are limited, as most of them rely on targeting individual people/avatars rather than a global space of news.

With the lack of traditional tools, there are new tools and services that can help promotion in Second Life, most of them dependent on blogs and RSS feeds.

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