Sitting around in my second life

One of the questions that came up repeatedly during the Government Consortium on Virtual Worlds on Friday was “Why do our avatars need to sit, when they don’t get tired?”
I think it’s because sitting is part of our language. Now, I’m not a language expert, but I do know a little bit about communication. Sometimes [...]

My other association hat: Education

I serve on the alumni advisory council of the community college of which I am an alum. I also frequent a number of listservs administered by the Council for Advance and Support of Education, which is an association of advancement and communications professionals in higher ed, including those running alumni associations.
One of the tracks offered [...]

Ten years after the apocalypse

Well that didn’t work.
Try this the old fashioned way. I know a couple who are having problems because one person’s behavior was hurting the other and the former didn’t understand why. Too often, people think of “cheating” as being sexual infidelity, but it can take other forms; if a couple is accustomed to trusting each [...]