{"id":565,"date":"2008-03-04T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldcafe.com\/world-cafe-in-s"},"modified":"2019-11-23T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T22:00:59","slug":"world-cafe-in-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/world-cafe-in-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockridge Institute World Cafe in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Secondlife\"
\nCreating online World Caf\u00e9s that are based on the same principles and practices as in-the-flesh Caf\u00e9s and access the same collective intelligence, or \u2018magic in the middle\u2019 is a project I and others have been working on for a while now, using a variety of online tools and methods. Here\u2019s a story about a World Caf\u00e9 I hosted using one of those tools, Second Life<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Second Life is what\u2019s called a \u2018virtual world\u2019; a 3-D environment where anything that happens in \u2018real life\u2019 (and more) can be played out. One popular business use is rapid prototyping, and innovative models for new social behaviors can also be quickly<\/p>\n

formulated and pioneered there. Many technologically savvy companies and organizations already have a presence in this Brave New World, and recently one of them contacted us to see if we could help host a conversation \u2018inworld\u2019 after a \u2018live\u2019 presentation they were delivering via conference call.<\/p>\n

That organization was George Lakoff\u2019s Rockridge Institute<\/a>, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to work with Director of Public Affairs, Sherry Reson to design and host a World Caf\u00e9 in Second Life on how virtual worlds might be used to further progressive values in real life.<\/p>\n

There have been other brief World Caf\u00e9 forays into Second Life, but this was the first I know of that used a process so close to the \u2018real\u2019 World Caf\u00e9 format.<\/p>\n

Together, we set up a hospitable World Caf\u00e9 space near the Rockridge Second Life offices, complete with 6 round tables with vases of flowers, each surrounded by 4 comfy chairs. We arranged the tables within \u2018earshot\u2019 so we could use the collective \u2018chat\u2019 feature for the introduction and harvest in the large group, and we utilized group IM chats for the table conversations, each round anchored by a host.<\/p>\n

The only thing we were missing were tablecloths that we could \u2018doodle\u2019 on, and the ability to watch a \u2018real time\u2019 graphic recorder create a visual harvest right before our eyes. But World Caf\u00e9 GiGi (Girl Geek) Nancy White<\/a> (Choconancy Lupino in Second Life) served as our graphic recorder, and she created this gorgeous graphic from our harvest, which she immediately posted to Flickr<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Nancysgraphic\"<\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n

One of the unique benefits of a Second Life World Caf\u00e9 is that there is a transcript automatically produced of the entire contents of each conversation. This potentially lends itself to some creative future harvesting possibilities, but for now the \u2018raw\u2019 files are available and you are welcome to read them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This World Caf\u00e9 was actively supported by our friends at Grove International<\/a>; Michelle Paradis, who worked with Sherry and I in setting up the space, and David Sibbet, who attended and served as host for his table. David, whose Grove Consultants International has done extensive building in Second Life, has offered a dedicated space in the beautiful Grove International galleries for World Caf\u00e9s. We look forward to exploring the collaboration with him and more \u2018inworld\u2019 World Caf\u00e9s in the future.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in having a World Caf\u00e9 as part of your event in Second Life, or working with the World Caf\u00e9 team to provide hosing support, please contact me by email<\/a>, or find me inworld as “Lucida Skytower”. You can go into the World Caf\u00e9 page<\/a> in the Second Life wiki to learn more, and if you have an avatar in Second Life, please join the World Caf\u00e9 group there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Secondlife\"
\nCreating online World Caf\u00e9s that are based on the same principles and practices as in-the-flesh Caf\u00e9s and access the same collective intelligence, or \u2018magic in the middle\u2019 is a project I and others have been working on for a while now, using a variety of online tools and methods. Here\u2019s a story about a World Caf\u00e9 I hosted using one of those tools, Second Life<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Second Life is what\u2019s called a \u2018virtual world\u2019; a 3-D environment where anything that happens in \u2018real life\u2019 (and more) can be played out. One popular business use is rapid prototyping, and innovative models for new social behaviors can also be quickly<\/p>\n

formulated and pioneered there. Many technologically savvy companies and organizations already have a presence in this Brave New World, and recently one of them contacted us to see if we could help host a conversation \u2018inworld\u2019 after a \u2018live\u2019 presentation they were delivering via conference call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,690],"tags":[100,381,115,380,379,270,382],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","category-stories-reports","tag-conversation","tag-grove-international","tag-online","tag-rockridge-institute","tag-second-life","tag-theworldcafe","tag-virtual-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-97","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}