NMC Campus Observer

New Weekly Events- Join Metanomics Events on NMC Campus

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jan 25, 2008 03:40pm

We are excited to announce that starting Monday, NMC Campus will be a partner site for tuning into the weekly Metanomics events that bring together many of the thought leaders in virtual worlds.

“Metanomics” refers to the study of the business and policy aspects of the “metaverse” of virtual worlds. Metanomics can focus on issues arising within virtual worlds, such as how developers manage the economy of a game world (like World of Warcraft), or how residents of virtual worlds manage and regulate business. Metanomics also includes the study of how real-world businesses can use virtual worlds as part of their strategy, and how real-world law and regulation might apply to virtual-world activities. Finally, metanomics includes the use of virtual worlds as laboratories in which to study real-world business or policy issues.

The series to date has had an impressive range of topics and speakers (see the summary of topics covered (MS Word file)

Series speakers will include game developers; executives managing real-world and virtual-world businesses; regulators and politicians; and scholars of business, economics, law and sociology.

For more info on the series, see the trailer video:

Now Metanomics is coming to NMC…

So now you can join us starting Monday, January 28, at 11:00am PST (check local time) in the amphitheater on Outreach, on the the NMC Campus Educational Community sims. The exact location is Outreach (87, 125, 34) and no group membership is required to teleport here.

The Metanomics events take place at various locations in SL (and we hope to be an originating site soon), and the activity on the main location is live streamed as video to other sims by the folks at SLCN. While watching the live stream, anyone can send questions or comments to all participants via the Metanomics group IM, so please make sure you join this group in Second Life so you can be part of the channel.

Coming this Monday to Metanomics is a conversation with David Wortley, Director of the Serious Games Institute (SGI). Future events have been put on the NMC Campus Observer calendar and are also available on the Metanomics site.

We look forward to these events and drawing a good group of educators to be engaged with these sessions on NMC Campus.