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Information Architecture in Second Life: 

Information Architecture in Second Life 2007 IA Summit www.iasummit.org/2007/conferencesession/ia_in_second_life.html Press Peter Mo Liked the Panel http://www.findability.org/archives/000162.php Guess What, Peter's a Babe http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/03/peter_morville_.html Ode on a Midcentury Modern Rug http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/432638693/in/set-72157600023787608/

Panelists: 

Panelists Stacy Surla (SL Stacy Narayan), moderator of the panel, is on the Board of the Information Architecture Institute and edits the IA Column in the ASISandamp;T Bulletin. Lori Bell (SL Lorelei Junot) is Director of Innovation at the Alliance Library System. She is the founder and chief librarian at Second Life Library 2.0. Sarah Dilling (SL Sally Linden) is a web developer at Linden Lab. Andrew Hinton (SL Banjo Quonset) is a co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute and is a Senior IA at Vanguard. Beth Kanter (SL Beth Kavka) is a trainer, coach, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of technology. Josh Knauer (SL Hayduke Ebisu) created GreenMarketplace.com and Envirolink Network. He's the founder of Commonwealth Island in Second Life. He also works for MAYA Design.

Format: 

Format The day before the session attendees received a hands-on overview of Second Life in the Flex-track part of the conference. Two panelists, Lori Bell and Beth Kanter, participated remotely from Second Life. The other panelists were physically present at the conference. Both Flex-track and Panel sessions were held as Real Life/Second Life mixed events. A Skype conference connection and laptop camera enabled remote panelists to hear, see the room, and speak. (The camera function was disabled for the Panel session to improve rendering performance.) Panelists and several audience members met at Info Architecture island.

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Flex-track Session: Mixed Real Life / Second Life event with Skype

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Panel Session: Mixed Real Life / Second Life event with Skype

Panel Notes: 

Panel Notes Second Life (SL) is a shared online virtual environment. Different goalwise from others, WoW. Social networking, modeling/sim, meetings andamp; prezzies, commerce. Orgs are figuring out how to use Second Life as a real channel.

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Panel Notes SL has many issues of particular interest to IAs. Visitors to SL locations often find them difficult to navigate. Organizing or discovering info about events and in-world content is a challenge. Orgs still 'figuring out how to use' Second Life.

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Panel Notes The way the web evolved gave rise to the need for IAs. Web 3-D poses info org and social networking puzzles. Web 3-D will also benefit from IA approaches and solutions.

Questions for Panel: 

Questions for Panel Andrew, why is Second Life important for IAs to think about? Or is it? [All], what do you see as the strengths of SL, particularly as you have used it? Sarah, as a Linden Lab employee who has also been coming to the IA Summit for a while now, what's the intersection between IA and SL? [Lori, Josh, Beth], tell us briefly how you/your organization has been using Second Life. [Brief tour in-world is okay. A few snapshots as a backup in case of no-connection would be very good.]

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Questions for Panel Josh, you work with non-profits on Commonwealth Island, the sim you created. What problems have these organizations faced in working through SL? [Same question to Lori, Beth, Andrew -- What does not work well in SL? Why?] [If not already answered] Very specifically, what roles can IAs play in shaping, building, and using Web 3-D environments? [If not already answered] What do we need to think about so we can make recommendations to our clients on integrating Web 3-D into their enterprises?

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Questions for Panel What design principles are there that make socially-mediated information transfer 'better' (and what does better mean?) Measurement: What are the analogies to counting visitors to a website, say or their path through a website and how do you actually measure the analagous things in SL

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Second Life Library 2.0 Second Life Library 2.0

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Presentation at Second Life Library (2006)

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Info Architecture isle Info Architecture isle

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Commonwealth Island Commonwealth Island

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TechSoup TechSoup

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Stacy Surla / Stacy Narayan stacy@greenfx.net