Connections/ Live2Give
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avadYay for the speedy ease of linkage and the wonders it can do.:)
I read this wonderful post on Tony Walsh's blog 'Clickable Clulture'last week
Transcending Physicality in Second Life and I was moved by it and decided to repost it with a link on the 'gaming technology for social good' discussion thread on omidyar.net.
Pam Omidyar was intrigued and looked into it more and she and I met up on Second Life and visited the Live2Give Island itself (along with Tom).
SO inspiring and wonderful what they've done there. I can't wait to show B. (B worked with a group of similarly disabled adults for quite a while and also worked at United Cerebral Palsy). Next thing you know, Pam has decided she is going to help Live2Give with some funding for new technology! :)! And then next thing you know both John Lester and June-Marie Mahay of Live2give are on omidyar.net and on 'our' Better Island discussion thread and all sorts of people are inspired and want to help and a new discussion thread 'Innovative Use of Technology for the extremely disabled' is started. And June-marie emails me and she's so sweet and we will meet up on SL soon(hopefully with B somehow). He's been researching adaptive devices for quite a while...and well,how perfect.
whew. this stuff is just so FAST!! Connections, connections.
Something as easy as just moving information along on the web can really make a difference quick! hmmmmmm
I read this wonderful post on Tony Walsh's blog 'Clickable Clulture'last week
Transcending Physicality in Second Life and I was moved by it and decided to repost it with a link on the 'gaming technology for social good' discussion thread on omidyar.net.
Pam Omidyar was intrigued and looked into it more and she and I met up on Second Life and visited the Live2Give Island itself (along with Tom).
SO inspiring and wonderful what they've done there. I can't wait to show B. (B worked with a group of similarly disabled adults for quite a while and also worked at United Cerebral Palsy). Next thing you know, Pam has decided she is going to help Live2Give with some funding for new technology! :)! And then next thing you know both John Lester and June-Marie Mahay of Live2give are on omidyar.net and on 'our' Better Island discussion thread and all sorts of people are inspired and want to help and a new discussion thread 'Innovative Use of Technology for the extremely disabled' is started. And June-marie emails me and she's so sweet and we will meet up on SL soon(hopefully with B somehow). He's been researching adaptive devices for quite a while...and well,how perfect.
whew. this stuff is just so FAST!! Connections, connections.
Something as easy as just moving information along on the web can really make a difference quick! hmmmmmm
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Date: 2005-02-09 07:39 pm (UTC)It'll help me rack up some Linden that I can use on these projects eventually!:)
Hope to see you inworld one day!
(by the way, I was SO not a 'gamer'. Everything I saw was fighting and killing nonsense. This is totally different. Which is not to say that some people don't have their fighting/killing sections...but you make of it what you want, and you go where it interests you.)
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Date: 2005-02-09 08:37 pm (UTC)It sounds fascinating and reminds me of the book Snow Crash.
Thank you. I'm marking this as a memory so I can go back and check it all out more thoroughly when I have a little more time.