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TechTalk@SL with new home in-world

We are moving to a new island! With the generous help of Dan Power (in-world Leinad Meriman) TechTalk@SL discussion area will be moved to a new location - Iowa Technology Park. This week most of the objects from our current location will be transported and adjusted to the new one. The new Island of Iowa will become a central place for information dedicated to the peculiarities of Iowa and its Technology Park will serve as an accesspoint for virtual activities like discussions and meetings. Thus,… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on April 7, 2008 at 9:34am — No Comments

Decision Support Workshop #11

You are welcome to attend Decision Support Workshop #11 on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 11 am PST. Our host Dan Power aka Leinad Meriman will lead the discussion with topic "Can using SL DSS improve Strategic Planning?". Everyone is invited, join us at… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on March 18, 2008 at 1:07pm — No Comments

TechTalk@SL History Hall

Since the first events at TechTalk@SL I had this idea to make all materials which we produced or discussed in-world available for review. Earlier we had chat logs which I distributed in-world and posted here as PDFs. Now, I decided to re-use the available space (the roomed discussion space) for a kind of gallery with all slide projectors inside which we used during all talks. I am on the way to complete it this week - this will include the ability to roll slides for every projector and the optio… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on March 17, 2008 at 10:25pm — No Comments

TechTalk@SL - Decision Support Workshop #9

You are welcome to attend Decision Support Workshop #9 tomorrow Friday, March 7, 2008 at 11 am PST. The host is George Kurtz aka Butch Dae on the topic "3D Mindmaps: SL Developments". The workshop is free and open for the SL community. Invite your friends. The event will be held at… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on March 6, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Decision Support Workshop #8

The next Decision Support Workshop #8 will be held on Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 at 11 am PST. The host is John England aka Noss Mayo on the topic "Mindmaps: Theory and Implementation" The workshop is at TechTalk@SL Discussion Center. Th… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on February 25, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Decision Support Workshop #7

You are invited to Decision Support Workshop #7 on Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 at 11 am PST/SLT. The hosts are Dan Power (aka Leinad Meriman) and Constance Johnson (aka Ilana Harsley) on the topic "Examples and issues with 3-D user interfaces in SL for decision support?" The workshop is exploratory and will be at… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on February 21, 2008 at 3:35pm — No Comments

TechTalk@SL - A New SL Social Platform

Next Tuesday, Feb 19, at 12pm (noon) PST (20:00 GMT, 21:00 CET) Robbie Kiama will present a new social platform for SL (first of its kind) developed by his team during the last six months. You will learn more about its current features, future developments and you'll have the chance to ask directly both technical and non-technical quest… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on February 16, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Decision Support Systems Workshop #5

You are cordially invited Decision Support Workshop #5 with co-hosts Dan Power (aka Leinad Meriman) and Tom Samson (aka Samson Francis) for the topic "Communications-Driven Decision Support: Second Life Tools". The workshop is Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 at 8am PST (16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET) at… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on January 30, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Decision Support Systems Workshop #4

You are cordially invited to Decision Support Workshop #4 with co-hosts Dan Power (aka Leinad Meriman) and Tom Samson (aka Samson Francis) for the topic "Using Second Life for Communications-Driven Decision Support: Process Issues". The workshop is Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 at 8am PST (16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET) at… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on January 23, 2008 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Decision Support Systems Workshop #3

This friday, Jan 18 2008, Richard Hackathorn will host the third workshop on Decision Support with title "Serious Games in Virtual Worlds: The Future of Enterprise Business Intellgence". The workshop starts at 8:00 AM PST (16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET) at… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on January 14, 2008 at 5:25pm — No Comments

Decision Support Systems Workshop #2

This friday, Jan 11 2008, Dan Power will host the second workshop on Decision Support with title "Can multi-user visual simulations provide real world decision support?". The workshop starts at 8:00 AM PST (16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET) at… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on January 8, 2008 at 10:13am — No Comments

Decision Support Systems Workshop #1

Let's start the year with something useful, important and of course "tech". I am happy to announce the first meeting for 2008 which will be in the form of a workshop which will focus on Decision Support Systems (DSS), having as a main host Professor Dan Power, a leading ex… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on January 8, 2008 at 10:09am — No Comments

Happy Holidays!

I'd like to wish all the tech people happy holidays! It has been a great year, one which I will remember with having great conversations, with meeting new great people and learning many new things! I'm happy that technology reached the level of development which allows this new way of interaction and as result we can now stay in touch no matter where we live. Thanks to Second Life and the smart people interacting in-world, with special greetings to those who joined TechTalk@SL - it has been a pl… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on December 26, 2007 at 5:31pm — No Comments

Facebook Page

TechTalk@SL has now a facebook page, which you can use to express your thoghts and show your friends that you belong to the group of people sharing IT knowledge. You can access it via this link: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5915208157
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Added by Emil Stoyanov on December 14, 2007 at 6:08pm — No Comments

VoIP for the Office - Transcript Available

The log from TechTalk@SL latest discussion has been uploaded and is accessible through the forum. Any feedback, suggestions or questions are w… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on November 28, 2007 at 2:14pm — No Comments

TechTalk@SL - VoIP for the Office

I'd like to invite you to a discussion which I beleive will be useful to those of you who work for or provide IT services and consulting for small and middlie size businessnes (SMB). VoIP is a topic which has been hugely discussed in the media so why not show some of its implications for SMB, practical exampl

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Added by Emil Stoyanov on November 19, 2007 at 12:15pm — No Comments

OpenFest 2007

On Saturday 10th November I had the pleasure to attend the annual event which gathed interested people and supporters of the open software and freedom in general - the OpenFest in Ruse, Bulgaria.

To be honest I expected low rate of interest, I've been prepared for no more than 15-20 people audience, half of them the presenters themselves. However, even… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on November 12, 2007 at 10:28pm — No Comments

Norfolk Island - New Management

I was informed today that Norfolk (the hosting Island of TechTalk@SL) will be sold which means we'll have a new managing estate owner. I hope this will be for the good of all who spend part of their virtual life on Norfolk.
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Added by Emil Stoyanov on October 19, 2007 at 3:05pm — No Comments

MetaHUD

Today I had a very interesting meeting with a leader of the team developing MetaHUD - a novel tool for social bookmarking (gridmarking/tagging) in the Metaverse. I was impressed by the functional and conceptional completeness of it. It is relatively easy to get used to it and, in my opinion, has bright future as the only so far mature tools of this kind. After a nearly hour conversation we decided to do on September 18th at 1:00 PM PDT a presentation of MetaHUD's technical aspects as well as dem… Continue

Added by Emil Stoyanov on September 15, 2007 at 12:33pm — No Comments