blog post: Second Life, Meet the Social Web http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2009/08/second-life-meet-social-web.html “We absolutely have to make it easier for musicians and other performers to perform meaningfully in Second Life. We’ve looked at the challenges extensively and have a good idea of what we need to do but we won’t be able to get to it in 2009. We see live performance as a “killer app” in Second Life.” ‐ Mark Kingdon, M Linden 2009 Linden Lab asked the live performance community for suggestions, ideas, complaints and genius bits about how to improve the overall experience for everyone - from performers to venue owners and event planners to residents. Grace McDunnough led an open survey soliciting feedback from the live performance community and as part of the SLCC09 Music Track, we had a discussion about our findings and ideas on the panel: Looking to the Future of Live Performance in SL with Colossus Linden.

1. Looking to the Future of Live Performance in Second Life™ with Colossus LindenGrace McDunnough slide crafter & moderator

2. “We absolutely have to make it easier for musicians and other performers to perform meaningfully in Second Life. We’ve looked at the challenges extensively and have a good idea of what we need to do but we won’t be able to get to it in 2009. We see live performance as a “killer app” in Second Life.” - Mark Kingdon, M Linden 2009

3. vocalists magic comedy poetry live performancein Second Life is diverse dance djs theater musicians performance art story-telling

4. performers venue ownersevent plannersaudiencelistenersfanslinden lab“yet to be any of the above” everyone has concerns

5. so we asked

6. what’sworking? what needs to befixed? what should beadded? what shouldchange?

7. rank these 5 concerns group limits communications event system avatar limits content sales

8. what did we learn? Data disclaimer: This is a VERY small sample set of data (< 200) and most responses appear to be from the live musician community. Although there are some shared concerns, we will kindly ask that Linden Lab re-run this exercise to be sure to address the diversity of live performance interests.

9. we love … diversity of venues, performances & performersseparation of streaming servers from SLease of access to perform and/or attend voice (when it works)connecting withpeoplethe experience!

10. however, laggrid instabilitypoor communicationsgroup limitationslow awarenessand lack of promotion break our hearts.

11. how the 5 ranked communications event system group limits avatar limits content sales ~ 20% gap

13. group chat and notices are currently just not working

14. groups are an integral part of the world experience, group limitations need to be lifted

16. events need to include refined categories (genres) and improved search by: artist, genre, venue, time

17. venue owners need to post more than 5 events a day

19. connectevents & people + promoteexperience = we all win!

20. promote live performance in SL (use your LL powers of good to expose ALL residents to live events)connect the SL events system with social sites (let me create a facebook or myspace event and have it show up in the SL events)include an “add to my calendar” capability(let me add an SL event to my yahoo, google or ical calendar)create an SL LIVE feed for live performance events(set up a twitter/facebook/myspace account for live events)create performer and venue profiles on XSTREET(set up a special section on XSTREET for live performance)create VURLS = “viewable URL”(e.g. let me have a sneak peek at the event via the web)

21. thankyou! for more info contact Grace McDunnoughhttp://grace.weebly.com cc photo credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexsenna/2175754862/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevorpatt/2745349111/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/racchio/2626789101/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/simax/3390895249/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/thosch66/1439272655/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/-bast-/349497988/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nomaan/2738565950/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/279804967/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bourgeoisbee/2297723751/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessekruger/2312087006/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/amibeattie/3292845913/