Guide to Millennium Project in Second Life

Millennium Project offices in Second Life have expanded to include a campusof buildings for project activites as well as to provide space to sponsors and related Futures Organizations and Programs. See "guide to Buildings on MP Campus" below.

Because Second Life is a new way of being on the Internet it might help to think of it in the following ways:

Firstly, think of it as Skype with a building or a neighborhood to go with it, Second Life audio is better than skype, you can hear where the person's voice is coming from and you share embodied presence. I keep my Second Life browser open most of the day, its like having an extra room in my real life office that anyone from around the world can drop into. If a friend or colleague stops by I can have a chat with them. I can of course lock the door when I do not want to be disturbed, or just go offline.

Second you can use the space in Second Life as an extension of your website, with links on the website that bring people directly to your offices or exhibits or meetings, your receptionist can keep an open window on your Second Life Office and greet virtual visitors. The reverse is possible too, namely click on an object in Second Life and have an internet web browser window open to a page.

Thirdly, Second Life is an incredible resource of people. There are more than 14 million people from all over the world in Second Life, including staff and students from more than 300 universities and non profits.

Fourthly for your purposes, Second Life is also a simulator, you can embody scenarios and give them life, through avatars and automated chat bots. Second Life is also proving to be an excellent extension of the classroom and has a large number of educational tools readily incorporated into your needs and plans.

A few countries even maintain consulates in Second Life. And several large companies use it for global collaboration between their offices, and just this past March there was the first meeting of the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds in Washington DC. US Federal Agencies, various branches of the military and NASA all maintain and actively use Second Life in their day to day activities.