Sometimes the best way to look forward is to start by looking back. Lets begin by taking a little time to reminisce about the past year. Lets talk about our favorite moments of 2006 on Better World Island :) and a few pics wouldn't hurt. :)

Better World Island is now #18 on the all-time most photographed sims on www.slpics.com -- SL Universe Snapzilla pics. http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/SimsList.aspx

Here's a few shots from recent outings on BWI:

ManorMeta, a recent shot....

Xin Revolution of the Care.org community shows me his new group teleporter.

Glitteractica Cookie of TechSoup drums with me at Kijiweni

Snowing over the lake, the Peace and Justice Center in the foreground

You don't want to see me get angry at Camp Darfur's faceless attackers and those who pull their strings

Giving a tour, Camp Darfur

Delia Lake of the Center for Water Studies in her full watery glow on Halloween

Flying over, giving a tour of the Water Center

My real sister Annette finds us inworld just in time for sunset over BWI

Beautiful pics Evonne!

I'll add a few fond memories- meditationmoments with the lovely InKenzo

and discussions at camp darfur

discovering the newborn Integral Institute

and beautiful mandala manifestations

Happy New Year to all...the birth and continuing evolution of BWI was definitely a huge inspiration for my GAMELAND show..: http://www.omidyar.net/user/u501515842/news/12/ Here's to what positive evolutions 2007 may bring...hope I can be of more inworld help this year :)

Happy New year to all.

I have http://www.betterworldisland.com/ registered on godaddy. I'll have a look into how to make a transfer of the domain name.

Keep up the good work.

Thank you so much Dominique!!

Here is a look back at Camp Darfur 2006

EARLY MEETING during the "building days" :)

Another view of the completed camp

THE GRIEFING

Camp Dafur at the present time

Aerial views of Better World November 2006

note: not all details at this distance..but overall a pretty good view :)

By far my favorite shot has to be:

Every group needs a princess ... we are so lucky to have Ray! :D

And on a more serious note:

I was most pleased that we could bring i-Act to Second Life and share it with the residents there.

Traffic. I would like to know your/our ideas about traffic. What is the ideal traffic pattern for us? Who? How often? How many? What are the peak times? Which may tell a little about what is the ideal island...for us. In loving kindness, PT Witte

Jackie B said:

It is with great enthusiasm for the new year and the potential that it brings for impacting our world that I begin this thread.

Better World Island has gone through a transitional year in 2006. It was a facinating year, the birth of Camp Darfur, the griefing incident, the growth of Manor Meta, The Peace and Justice Center, Center for Water Studies, Integral Island, Half an Apple Project, Care.org lab, and Gardens of Hope. We faced the challange of our creator and mentor Sue having to minimize her role because of health issues, and my own long absence to Africa.

We met and impacted thousands of people through our exhibits and interaction and had an amazing amount of press coverage for Camp Darfur. We have made new friends and allies and discovered that the ways we can grow and learn seem to be limitless.

In the next few weeks, I will be posting about our purpose, focus, leadership structure, and short and long term goals. I encourage you to post your thoughts, critiques, ideas, and brainstorms. Although Better World is a privately owned island, it is the child of Omidyar network dreams and hopes, and to reach its potential it will need each one of us.

There seems to be a lock on the forwarding of domains with godaddy.

I'm sure it is possible to do , but i reckon they'll want something for it. I had a similar problem with my provider

Anyhow, the name is up for renewal in may and i'll let it pass (keep an eye on it and preferably put a backorder on it)

If anybody knows an easy way to transfer with Godaddy , let me know and i'm your man.

Carpe Diem

PT said:

Traffic. I would like to know your/our ideas about traffic. What is the ideal traffic pattern for us? Who? How often? How many? What are the peak times? Which may tell a little about what is the ideal island...for us. In loving kindness, PT Witte

PT, I have the traffic stats for each day on BW and @ Camp Darfur. I haven't gotten them into a format yet that allows us to read the data easily. Each day I get a list of avatar names and time duration within range of the sensor. Any one have ideas how to best use this info? should I use a spreadsheet?

Another factor that contributes greatly is advertising....so far our budget for that is nonexistant with the exception of our personal plot listings. However, we have some good financial news on the horizon so we may just get a bit of a budget :)

When this thread started and people began posting pictures, I new Meron would find a way to pick on me :(

Ray

:D

Dominique Beyens said:

There seems to be a lock on the forwarding of domains with godaddy.

I'm sure it is possible to do , but i reckon they'll want something for it. I had a similar problem with my provider

Anyhow, the name is up for renewal in may and i'll let it pass (keep an eye on it and preferably put a backorder on it)

If anybody knows an easy way to transfer with Godaddy , let me know and i'm your man.

Carpe Diem

Dominique,

I did some reading on Godaddy and have sent you a PM

thanks :)

Good luck with all of this!

Event notes for this week....

Tuesday 1/9/07, 11AM PST Discussions on Darfur

The Darfur event streaming from the US Holocaust Museum and Infinite Mind with NPR (Mia Farrow, John Heffernan and the US Holocaust Museum group that toured refugee camps) will be cohosted at Camp Darfur.

Tuesday 1/9/07 5PM PST Four Eyed Monsters

The internet loves Four Eyed Monsters, an indie film put forward on social networks with first screenings now coming together in Second Life for Tuesday at 5PM. Come watch a new movie at ManorMeta....first time seen on the internet!

On it's way.

Glad for that, for it will allow me to ask you why http://www.chandigo.com/ shouldn't have a place on better world island. I believe it is one of the most inventive new games with perspective coming out east of the Americas. (While probably not understood properly as yet)

So here goes a small proposal,

Could i get a lonely tree on Better world island where i'll hang my game? (50 prims max)

Then again, don't feel obliged. Just tought http://www.chandigo.com/ should be included.

Dominique Beyens said:

Could i get a lonely tree on Better world island where i'll hang my game? (50 prims max)

LOL @ lonely tree!

lets set up a time to meet inworld to discuss this...

When's a good time for you and the other scouts?

Traffic Stats

We average 35-40 visits per day, this does not include the island tenants.

I only had one stat for an event but we reached over 70 on that day.

So over one year that could be 10,000+, depending on how many repeat visitors we see. I'm guessing we get a lot of repeat visitors, so maybe half that are unique users.

Any updates on the 2007 plans, Jackie? Would love to keep informed and possibly involved.

I'm very interested in getting connected, will pay a visit in SL and see how my future plans can tie in.

Wow,

a work filled week doing up our exhibits at the NMConnect Media Arts Symposium. FEB 11-13

Love working inworld with all of you, Meron, Linda, Nick, Bruce, Xin, Evonne, and finally meeting up with Darlene inworld!

This exhibit is a MUST SEE and I urge all of you who have access to Second Life to come inworld and visit our installations on the Outreach Sim.

We have incoporated so many Better World and O'net projects and we are so proud to be connected to them. Peace Tiles,Camp Darfur,Center for Water Studies,Peaceful Tomorrows, Partners for Others, SOLID, I-ACT, and the list goes on!

We also built an exhibit for IRC who are just getting started in SL and needed a little hand :)

We are deepening our relationship with Care.org whose IDP camp project we are sponsoring and hosting on Better World Island come and see the building blocks of that camp right next to us at NMConnect :)

and the BIGGEST NEWS

our own Sue Braiden will be hosting a Better World Building Discussion @ the Better World exhibit on Monday FEB 12 at 2:00 p.m. PST

PICTURES coming soon!

Massive thanks to Evonne for being so generous with space for our projects :)

Yes this seems like it's going to be an amAzing event..very thankful to Evonne and so glad to be on the same sim/area with all the BetterWorld installations. I'm working on some pieces for it right now... will actually incorporate some of the 2004 Better World brainstorm Sparkleworlds

http://www.omidyar.net/group/netchange/news/28/83/

in a new configuration.I love when what seemed farfetched becomes the norm...welcome to 2007!:)