Last week, at Meta Magic Studio’s monthly review meeting, it was decided that we should become a sponsor of KONA Radio. It was the easiest decision we made at the meeting. We did make a list why we should do it. Here is what we listed:

• We need to started branding Meta Magic Studio™ within Second Life® due to the trademark name change of SL Brand.
• The music featured on KONA is well done and has been featured on Los Arboles, home of MMS, for over 15 months.
• The station is well run by Ravishal Bentham and GoSpeed Racer.
• The price was excellent – and a great value.
• We recommended the station stream to Cisco Systems and they are playing it.
• The station plays music our entire team likes.
• We play KONA in our RL office in Santa Cruz and at my home office.
• And Cheerie likes to dance to them late at night. (lol – she hates that i caught her dancing!)

Then KONA surprised us with two outstanding spots. So check out Kona and listen for our spots!

Disclosure: I am a contractor for Cisco Systems and I develop their Second Life Virtual Campus. My opinions are my opinions!

Yesterday, Tuesday, June 24, I was at Cisco Live! SL all day. Lots of very well attended events going on throughout the days. Here are just three highlights:

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Cisco Live! Pavilion – Second Life

The final step in any development, is the deployment. The time that you release to the world your new offering. I always enjoy these moments and believe that they should be marked with some sort of celebration or at least a big cheer. But usually, with the normal day to day activities and the typical time pressures, these deployments are never fully acknowledged, let alone celebrated.

And with any deployment, there is the natural nervous anticipation of users reactions. Who will visit? How many will visit? What worked? What didn’t work? What can we improve? Are we getting the anticpated results, or is something else happening?

Plus there is the dread of something not working or not being accepted or worse, not useful. I always prepare myself for the negative reviews; that way, if it does happen, I am mentally prepared.

Deploying builds in Second Life come in various ways: the reveal of a secret, the slow build out, or the bang – here it is.

Meta Magic Studios’ latest project which launched today is the Cisco Live SL Pavilion which is in support of the annual Cisco Live mega event being held in Orlando, Florida next week. Cisco Live is Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference. The conference features Networkers, their premier education and training program, and other special programs designed to meet the diverse needs of today’s IT and communications professional from increasing technical proficiency to understanding the impact of technology on business. (There is one planned for Johannesburg, South Africa in December)

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