Video of my “NASA, Collaboration & CoWorking” Presentation at the PSFK New York Conference

This video is of the first 5 minutes of my presentation to the PSFK New York Conference on March 27th… There is a joke herein “[Second Life] is the best thing EVER!” that references a comment I made before the beginning of this video clip… Trust me- it’s funny if you see the whole thing. [...]

NASA CoLab in Congressional Testimony– sort of!

As part of the first ever US Congressional hearing simulcast with a virtual world (it wasn’t QUITE mixed-reality), the House Telecommunications & the Internet Subcommittee held a hearing last week entitled “Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium.”
During the hearing, Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab, played a machinima video that featured [...]

Paper About Mixed-Reality (Second Life / Real-Life) at the Next Generation Exploration Conference…

Posting the PDF here so that anyone can access it… Thanks again to the entire NASA and non-NASA Second Life team that made this mixed-reality event happen– and to the paper writing team that pulled together a record of the event and lessons learned in very short order. See also my original post about the [...]

Successful First Day of Mixed-Reality NASA “Next Generation Exploration Conference”

We had the “Next Generation Exploration Conference II” streaming into NASA CoLab in Second Life all day today, creating a mixed reality conference. Below, NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden (above) and NASA Headquarters’ Ken Davidian (below) address NGEC up to 50 avatars on NASA CoLab island in Second Life as well as 100 young [...]

Setting Up For a Mixed-Reality Conference at NASA

It takes an army of talented volunteers, and many hours, to get mixed-reality Second Life-Real-Life conferences set up in NASA conference facilities…

RG09: Reinventing Government Under a New Administration in 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about how a new wave of “reinventing government” can occur, and what it would substantively entail, under a new Presidential Administration in 2009. Most of my thinking draws on my hands-on experience in one little corner of the Federal Government with our NASA CoLab program, but I want to [...]

Video of the last NASA CoLab “Luna Philosophie” Salon at Yahoo Brickhouse

Thanks to Salim Ismail for blogging the last NASA Luna Philosophie at his Yahoo Brickhouse facility. Luna Philosophie is a regular series of approximately monthly “space salons,” and is part of our NASA CoLab program, through which we’re building open collaborative communities for NASA.
Watch the video of NASA Ames’ Tom Cochrane’s Luna Philosophie talk [...]