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Thursday Sep 27, 2007
Sun holds a conference every year called the Sun Customer Engineering Conference (CEC). There's a new twist this year - any Sun employee can participate in the conference via Second Life!
Second Life provides an exciting and interactive way for all Sun customer engineers to participate in this year's CEC conference, which is physically (and virtually) being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Sun is encourging all customer engineers - and any Sun employee interested in the CEC event - that are not able to attend in person to attend virtually. Employees will feel like they are right in Las Vegas!
Employees will be able to attend the keynote sessions live in Second Life, a few select breakout sessions, receive information about the conference pavillion floor and explore a virutal world as a way to network with other Sun engineers and have some fun!
The theme at this year's conference is SHIFT - Our Universe. Our World. Your Move (more information here for Sun Employees). So, in Vegas, it's all about Sun employees and THEIR MOVES to help Sun to make the shift. The shift to red. The shift to green. The shifts needed to grow. CEC in Second Life will enable this theme to reach far more employees and make this SHIFT a global Sun effort.
It's going to be an amazing conference for those in person in real life (rl) and those virtually in Second Life (sl) - complemented with social networking opportunities before, during and after the event. These include the CEC 2007 Ning environment and the CEC 2007 Group created in Facebook. The goal is allowing anyone and everyone at Sun to participate, network, grow and learn!
We encourage Sun employees to provide feedback to the team on your experience! This is an experiment with virtual worlds and how we can reach out globally across Sun for these events - be sure to let us know what you think and what you'd like to see next year as we consider expanding this offering. More information for Sun employees on registering your Sun avatar, training on Second Life and specifics on how to access the CEC event in Second Life can be found on the OneStop CEC 2007 internal website More for Sun employees.
Christy Confetti Higgins
christy.confetti@sun.com
IM: confetti@sun.com or AIM: christyconfetti
http://blogs.sun.com/library
The Second Life stuff looked really cool on the big screen at the event! Is there room for 2 more Divas?
Posted by GSE-Diva on October 09, 2007 at 12:59 PM PDT #
This is a virtual world - there is room for LOTS of Divas :)
Let me know if you want to chat.
Christy
Posted by Christy Confetti Higgins on October 12, 2007 at 10:00 AM PDT #