Auction Date to fund a Virtual Relationship Book

 I got this message from a friend and promised to pass it on. Fun event coming up! Tell your friends! :)

Greetings:

We are having a fund raiser activity for the Kicstarter Publishing Project for the "Virgin's Handbook on Virtual Relationships" at the 'O' Lounge sim

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/virtualhandhold/virgins-handbook-on-virtual-relationships

So we are looking for the most desired lasses & lads for the auction. A virtual relationships Auction Date to fund a Virtual Relationship Book!

If you are that desired commodity and can come up with a lovely idea and speill to say in voice on the stage what you would do if they buy the date with you...  The winning bid will be split  1/2 going to the project and 1/2 going to the giver of the date. So if you sell for $5000 lindens you will get $2500 lindens and the project will get the same. You then can follow thru on such promises as...

"IF you win me for our date I will buy you a scuba divers outfit then you and I will go out and I will teach you to scuba dive at the costa rica sim." or "If you buy me I will take you shopping for a new outfit and then we will go dancing."

If you would like to be auctioned off at this halirious event, please send a notecard with pic and what YOU would offer for the date.

You will be notified of your selection within 3 days.

Woot.. We are going to have so much fun. Yossel and I most likely will fight constantly trying to take bids and raise the price... so save up.

Send notecard to Pamala Clift.

The tentative day is noon SLT Jan 28th Sat.for the auction!!

Is it infinite?

Jim Blascovich (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University) on SL in a few minutes, talking about their new book, Infinite Reality.

Future of virtual reality, is it infinite?

Here is a Youtube video about this very question. Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering experts in the field of virtual reality, joined Ian Punnett to reveal when we all might be living in the Matrix. Host Ian Punnett.

But as the video is quite long, I recommend you first hop on to Aloft Nonprofit Commons (SLurl) to see them talking of the book.

Applause for the good cause

I was at a meeting of Nonprofit organisations in SL. As I arrived, Laura was talking of the rescue center she works for, Horsenet. They have been to SL since July this year and have some of their horses from the center as virtual horses in their SL location. They have a lot of disabled, for example blind, horses. The horses get to live a peaceful horses life now, no work assignments, good care, company of other horses in the field. Nice change for many previously poorly treated animals.

They need donations and volunteers, both inworld and in real life, and you can sponsor a horse for just 12 dollars a month.

Please contact them for more information.
Laura's Twitter account is @Laura_J24 and The HorseNet Horse rescue has a website.

Another interesting organization, Prem-U, has a project that aims to improve the standards of education in Mali.

These were just two examples of many. The nonprofit organizations do a lot of good work in SL and in the world. Many of them are interested in communicating and working with other organizations and interested parties. Please take a look at their contact information and see if you'll find a way you can donate, support, volunteer or promote any of the good causes.

You might be interested in:

- Global PlanIT
- NSAC Social media - Listen first 2010 event
- Wiki tutorial for the Nonprofit Commons in Secon Life
- How to Edit Wiki
- Wiki text formatting
- Janet Fouts: Listening Tools for Social Media Monitoring
- CESL (Counselor education in SL)
- NPC: How to Promote Your In-World Event
- Twitter listing for non-profits in Second life
- NPC on Facebook
- Tech Soup Nonprofits in Second life Google group
- theCOREconference
- Nonprofits in Second life - LinkedIn
- Nonprofits in Second Life Calendar
- NPSL Twitter account
- ALSa.org - SL ALS Association
I will be adding important links and slurls in the sidebar, so please check back when you can, thanks.