SOCIAL NETWORK - Social Network to promote peace

Mc Kinsey is running a competition in Second Life. You can get financed in Linden, Second Life virtual currency, to start your own business. We decided to take part in the competition, to run a social experiment in Second Life, using MyPacis.com social network platform as support. Working on several projects, we are short on time, so we will try our best to respect deadlines. As usual, this blog is the place to check for updates about MyPacis.com and related projects.

If you want to take part in the competition yourself, check: http://vvc.mckinsey.com/

Deadline to form a team (at least you and one more partner, up to six members) and submit the initial business idea (one page text) is August, 31st. There are some participants from Europe and USA, but the majority of them (or at least the most active in the forum) is from China. Second Life is an ideal platform to try social experiments, and find out what motivates people to enhance their “first life” with an additional one. From campers hanging out on benches to get paid a few linden every ten minutes to socially-motivated volunteers, in SL you find all types of people with different motivations to be there.

Good luck if you take part in the competition! If you see there is room for synergies among our teams, drop us an email.

Hello!

We are almost ready to launch a blog carnival, open both to users of our blogs and bloggers hosted elsewhere. We will all be blogging about peace, and share posts here on MyPacis.com and blog carnival aggregators.

As usual, the main point of our initiatives and campaigns are not to give ready-made answers, but to increase awareness and ignite discussion about peace. If you have a blog, or are going to get one, stay tuned for updates! We should be ready by Sept. 1st.

For now, keep enjoying the social network services and please drop a mail or comment here if you have ideas, questions, etc. Thanks for your support, that is what makes a difference!

How can Web 2.0 services support Open Society? This is the question we would like you to raise with this post Web 2.0 are second generation web-based communities, social-networks, wikis, folksonomies, etc. These services have one benefit in common: to facilitate collaboration and sharing between peers. We strongly believe that Web 2.0 can be a useful tool to support Open Society.These are some potential uses of Web 2.0 to support Open Society:
- social networks: create an open social network, which can facilitate users in keeping current connections; extend their network of peers; foster discussion about democracy, human rights and Open Society at large, especially in countries which are not yet open societies.
- wikis: to share facts, possible explanations and forecasts about Open Society.
- shared bookmarks: to identify already existing useful resources about democracy, human rights and Open Society at large.
- forum: to promote an open, responsible and fair debate among users, regardless of their opinion.
- blogs: to ensure sources independent information, even where freedom of press is not protected.
- online activism tools: to identify meritable projects, and then channel our energies to support them.