Second Life a la David Pogue
by Michael HoffmanSaturday, February 24th, 2007
I wrote recently about the great little videos David Pogue does. He also works for CBS and just did a piece for them about SecondLife, which is something that I talk about in our consulting and seminars with nonprofits. Mr. Pogue does a nice job of showing us around. I think this is very very early and as a nonprofit you have a lot of basic things you have to be doing before you put resources into SecondLife. But I also think it’s for real. I think their decision to make it open source — allowing anyone to extend applications on it’s platform — is going to turn out to be a huge decision that will create a mechanism for rapid and exciting improvements.
Watch the video about second life that David did for CBS, and then know that nonprofits of all kinds are already there, raising (some small amounts of) money and awareness.
A message to David Pogue: David, I sent you an email about this, but I actually think you are more likely to see this post than find me in your in-box. Maybe a year ago, maybe more, you did a great little video about what you do to make videos. You showed us that your “staff” was a $15 tripod and your “studio” was your attic. You showed us how to attach a camera to a hotel lamp to make a traveling tripod, and your “secret” for those moving shots you do. That video is hard to find on the NYTimes site. I would love to put that video on DoGooderTV to show nonprofit organizations how easy it is to make videos of this type. We can credit it and link it any way you want. How ’bout it?
