All of the presentations were very interesting and will all be online shortly. I will update you on their availability and provide a full report on the event in a subsequent post as soon as the remaining presentations go online.

In the meantime here is the presentation I gave on
‘Working with Web 2.0 (Social Software in the Workplace)’

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Tourism Ireland’s decision was influenced by the fact that 60% of Second Life’s users are from Ireland’s four biggest tourist markets – Great Britain,  the US, Germany and France, and half those are more than 30 – a key demographic for tourism to Ireland.

I was a regular SL visitor about two or three years ago but at the time found that there weren’t that many Europeans visiting the world, and no groups representing Ireland existed at all. At the time I used to meet up with one of the UK groups that met up every weeknight on an island in the virtual world, with group members taking turns to stand on a virtual soapbox and discuss , politics, history, sociology and other topics having an academic slant. I found it to be quite immersive and engaging and have no doubt that virtual worlds will form an important part of the future web, and will play an important role in enabling such important elements of our lives such as democracy, education and business. Its worth signing up for a free account and taking a walk (or flying over) some of this virtual world.. go skiing, scuba diving, shopping or perhaps attend a meeting or a class..

….or  attend a gig in virtual Dublin… http://www.dublinsl.com/index.php

Here also are some users photos from Second Life on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dublin+second+life