Proposed Meeting and Collaboration

In the wake of the success of our joint efforts on World AIDS Day, and in the spirit of collaboration embodied by Second Life, we invite HIV/AIDS groups, activists, health professionals, organizations, and educators to participate in a meeting to discuss our shared interests and explore ways we might ensure the success of our collective work.

The tentative goals of this meeting are to:

• identify areas where we can collaborate
• identify ways to coordinate our outreach, support, marketing, and education efforts
• form a community of support that transcends SL and RL boundaries

Place: Karuna campfire: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Karuna/60/106/26
Date: March 6, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Second Life Time (Pacific Time)

For further information about Karuna, please visit our project website http://www.karunasl.info/

Please feel free to pass this invitation to any other HIV/AIDS groups, activists, health professionals, organizations, and educators you feel might be interested.

Carolina Keats, Karuna Project Coordinator
Jenaia Morane, Story Project Coordinator

Healthcare Education group event

A truly interesting and even motivational event, and I'm not just saying that because I had some small part in it. Pathfinder Linden spoke to a group of ~30 healthcare folks at the new Health EduIsland, expressing his strong interest in, and advocacy of, health and health education efforts in Second Life. I love the thought that this group constitutes evidence of the continued development of SL as a platform, moving toward exploiting the networking capabilities of virtual worlds to share experiences and grow together. That's sure what it's about, isn't it?

Plans afoot - Health EduIsland

Next Friday the Healthcare Education group will be meeting in their new space for the first time! Planned as an 'ahoy maties!' pirate-themed party, we'll take a look around and talk about plans for the use of this large chunk of space, deciding how it can best be used to meet our objectives. You're invited to attend!