We are thrilled to announce that our second keynote speaker, Mr. Ron Meiners, has been confirmed!
Ron has worked on a wide range of online community applications, from casual games to virtual worlds, including Myst IV: Revelation and Myst Online: Uru Live, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory for Ubisoft, as well as the free online gaming community Mplayer.com.
He is passionate about the potential for online communities to foster relationships between participants and to open the range of experiences to collaborative creativity, transformative experiences, and the evolution of social organization, as illustrated in his position as the volunteer Online Community Advocate for the Burning Man organization.
He is committed to the exploration of new forms of interaction and collaboration online, and the evolving relationship between consumer communities and host brands. His recent projects include Multiverse.net (platform for independent MMOG creation), Dogster.com (community of passion for pet owners), and MyHollywood.com (casual game and social networking site with an entertainment theme).
Much of his talk, and the activities following, will focus on the need for ongoing community engagement and support - whether the goal for your world is to facilitate team-building exercises, or to excite and enhance the experience of players in a for-profit game universe. An elemental part of the process, the maintenance of person-to-person connections is the oft-overlooked and single most defining component of virtual world development. Ron will offer his experience and expertise as a model for the best practices in this area!
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The Virtual Worlds Workshop at Indiana University, Bloomington prepares participants from business and academia with the tools they need to build virtual world technology into their communication/collaboration plans for the future.
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The Virtual Worlds Workshop, being held August 3-7, 2009, is the first step in maximizing your investment in virtual world technology development.
The blog is an opportunity for us to share with you what's going on as the Workshop comes to fruition, and for you to share your thoughts and observations with us.
We hope to keep a lively dialogue going before, during, and after the Workshop - and to continue our discussion until next year's Workshop!
The blog is an opportunity for us to share with you what's going on as the Workshop comes to fruition, and for you to share your thoughts and observations with us.
We hope to keep a lively dialogue going before, during, and after the Workshop - and to continue our discussion until next year's Workshop!