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		<title>The Power of Virtual Worlds, Siemens Global Web Conference: Notes on Trend Watching, Participatory culture and Attention Economy</title>
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Slide 1: Virtual World Opportunities: Second Life and Beyond Siemens Global Web Conference Kloster Seeon, June 1, 2007
Slide 2: Siemens Global Web Conference, Juni 2007 © 2007 CScout Trendberatung
Slide 3: The future is here. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life Learning Best Practices</title>
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Share This]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Learning: Second Life: Building, Collaboration, Data Visualization- Presence</title>
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Who Active: Aarhus Business College: Aarhus, Denmark Oklahoma City University: Oklahoma  City, OK Arcada University of Technology: Helsingfors, Finland The Open  University: Milton Keynes, UK The Art Institute of California-San Diego San  Diego, CA Oregon State University: Corvallis, OR The Art Institute of Pittsburgh  Pittsburgh, PA Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA Audiocourses Music  Production School: London, United Kingdom Pellissippi State Technical Community  College: Knoxville, TN Australian Film TV and Radio School: Sydney, Australia  Pennsylvania State University: (Various towns), PA Ball State University:  Muncie, IN Pepperdine Universtiy: Malibu, CA The Bay School of San Francisco:  San Francisco, CA Platt (Media Arts) College San Diego: San Diego, CA Beach  College: Santa Barbara, CA San Diego State University: San Diego, Calif. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games, Virtual Environments &#038; Education Slides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KEY SLIDESSlide 5: “Games are widely used as educational tools, not just for pilots, soldiers and surgeons, but also in schools and businesses…. (...)]]></description>
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Name: The Avatar as Communication
Authors:Dr Angela Thomas &#124; Anya Ixchel 
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		<title>Economic Goods: Scarcity in a Virtual World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In economics, scarcity is defined as a condition of limited resources, where society or a system lacks sufficient resources to produce enough to fulfill subjective wants. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Forterra&#8217;s On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment OLIVE 1.0 Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[November 30, 2006 - San Mateo, Calif. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes and Second Life- H&#038;R Block Enters Virtual World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H&#38;R Block embraces the shadow consumer with avatar to avatar tax interaction. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Qwaq Forums- Virtual Workspaces For Enterprise Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Qwaq Forums are touted as virtual spaces for &#8220;real work&#8221;. (...)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowconsumer.com/2007/03/16/qwaq-forums-virtual-workspaces-for-enterprise-development/</link>
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		<title>Avatar-Based Marketing</title>
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Publication Date: Jun 1, 2006
Availability: In Stock
Author(s): Paul Hemp 12d297bd-c77b-4e1b-8ba5-b2dbdb88d5d3-sc 
Description:
Advertising has always targeted a powerful consumer alter ego: that hip, attractive, incredibly popular person just waiting to emerge (with the help of the advertised product) from an all-too-normal self. (...)]]></description>
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