A couple of weeks back we relaunched our forums and there's been a number of people sign up and start contributing. For any forum's success there needs to be a critical mass of participants and there's certainly not that yet. To help get things kick-started we have a competition running. Any person who signs up on the forums between now and the end of August goes into the … [Read more...] about Reminder: $5000L on offer for forum sign-up competition
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Relaunching our forums (and a competition)
When we first launched in late 2006 we also had forums, which were moderately utilised on those first months, particularly by the ABC prior to the launch of ABC Island. We closed the forums down mid-2007 due to lack of activity and some technical problems with the platform we were using. I'm really pleased to re-launch the forums which can be found here or via the 'Forum' link … [Read more...] about Relaunching our forums (and a competition)
Is it a long-term slide?
I've had some interesting comments privately from people about the significant decline on active Australian Second Life users over the past two months. So, I've created a topic on the SLOz forums to delve a bit deeper - why the slump? Wold love to hear your thoughts. … [Read more...] about Is it a long-term slide?
The SL voice experience so far
On the SLOz forums, Juko Tempel has invited comments on residents' experiences with voice in SL to date. How have you found it? How often do you use voice versus text? … [Read more...] about The SL voice experience so far
To voice or not to voice? There really is a question
Unless you haven't logged into SL in the past few days, you'll be aware that voice is now part of the main grid browser. It remains an optional download at present but it's certainly ramping up. New World Notes are running a reader poll on voice take-up and its early results are interesting: It's no great surprise that there's initial resistance to voice from … [Read more...] about To voice or not to voice? There really is a question