<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757168961725238515</id><updated>2012-02-16T16:46:29.736-08:00</updated><category term='expatriate'/><category term='Life'/><category term='education'/><category term='expat'/><category term='navigation'/><category term='outline'/><category term='educator'/><category term='Adult'/><category term='Second'/><category term='virtual'/><category term='world'/><category term='learning'/><category term='training'/><title type='text'>e-i-consulting and Virtual Worlds</title><subtitle type='html'>Cross-Cultural Consulting - Training - Translation</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-i-consulting-virtual-worlds.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4757168961725238515/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-i-consulting-virtual-worlds.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>eurominuteman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15477540942167610667</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dz4SydBNU-0/TR7enShTfDI/AAAAAAAAAXs/qqMwI8Kt1bc/S220/business-001.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757168961725238515.post-5103803520868693560</id><published>2009-12-01T08:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T18:15:37.125-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='virtual'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='educator'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='expatriate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adult'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='training'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='expat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Second'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='navigation'/><title type='text'>Expat Training in Virtual Worlds</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;The group Expat Training was established in Second Life with the purpose to provide cross-cultural training for individuals, expatriates and their families in and by using virtual worlds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://world.secondlife.com/group/8d5496cf-92cb-9395-21f3-aa6e4ad07608" target="_blank"&gt;http://world.secondlife.com/group/8d5496cf-92cb-9395-21f3-aa6e4ad07608&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are considering to move to a real foreign destination or major city, you can sign-up to virtual pre-arrival tours and expat meet-ups at these mentioned general locations. Upon demand, such tours are composed in a pre-disposed virtual area of your virtual counterpart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a home or office computer, you as expat and your families can download guides, meet at a personal guided tour, get an idea of the layout of the foreign city and the distances involved, and experience the courtesies and customs in the new location before you arrive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also become acquainted with local networking groups and community meet-ups prior to your arrival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dz4SydBNU-0/SxVByHPJMoI/AAAAAAAAAXI/i-hpgqiPh_U/s1600/Internal_view_of_the_Stanford_torus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dz4SydBNU-0/SxVByHPJMoI/AAAAAAAAAXI/i-hpgqiPh_U/s320/Internal_view_of_the_Stanford_torus.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410302856547349122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check our Virtual Help Desk for initial, enabling, and skill building processes as Newbie:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://second-life-tool-ranking.ning.com/group/virtualhelpdesks"&gt;http://second-life-tool-ranking.ning.com/group/virtualhelpdesks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="243"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tHx__AVAsD0&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tHx__AVAsD0&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="243"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are also working on a mixed reality service module, and this service also intends to &lt;a href="http://second-life-tool-ranking.ning.com/group/opensourcevirtualworlds/forum/topics/meerkat-viewer-project"&gt;put foot into other virtual domains&lt;/a&gt;. Check the Virtual World Navigation Outline for Educators:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://second-life-tool-ranking.ning.com/notes/Navigation_Outline" target="_blank"&gt;http://second-life-tool-ranking.ning.com/notes/Navigation_Outline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="324"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LYyukE8qF5I&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LYyukE8qF5I&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="324"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyukE8qF5I"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyukE8qF5I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e-i-consulting&lt;br /&gt;Jakob-Reiner-Str. 36&lt;br /&gt;D-88250 Weingarten&lt;br /&gt;Germany&lt;br /&gt;Mobile: +49-176-54016058&lt;br /&gt;Fax+Voice-To-Email: +49-1212-510437727&lt;br /&gt;Skype: eurominuteman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;50MB Email: james.oreilly@web.de&lt;br /&gt;MSN: joreilly@hotmail.de&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Mail: eurominuteman@googlemail.com&lt;br /&gt;Google Wave: eurominuteman@googlewave.com&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Google Wave Team DE &gt; EN-US&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.proz.com/team/1426"&gt;http://www.proz.com/team/1426&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second Life: Eurominuteman Jameson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EU-VAT-IdNo.: DE146346525&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://e-i-consulting.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://e-i-consulting.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/virtual-homeoffice"&gt;http://tinyurl.com/virtual-homeoffice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you also think that quality of learning has to be based on broad consensus and involvement, inclusiveness &amp;amp; dialogue? 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Technology has changed. Virtual worlds have changed. Second Life has changed. And now it is time for our organization to also change. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to acknowledge that there are many virtual worlds out there to be talked about, and proactively moving into &lt;a href="http://secondlife.com/corporate/brand/trademark/"&gt;compliance with the Linden Lab restriction of the use of the "SL"&lt;/a&gt; in any name, effective January 6th, 2010, this blog will focus on the convergence of e-i-consulting and Virtual Worlds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check the Virtual World Navigation Outline for an actual overview:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://second-life-tool-ranking.ning.com/notes/Navigation_Outline"&gt;http://second-life-tool-ranking.ning.com/notes/Navigation_Outline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www3.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://e-i-consulting-virtual-worlds.blogspot.com/2008/07/introduction.html" id="clustrMapsLink"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www3.clustrmaps.com/counter/index2.php?url=http://e-i-consulting-virtual-worlds.blogspot.com/2008/07/introduction.html" style="border:0px;" alt="Locations of visitors to this page" title="Locations of visitors to this page" id="clustrMapsImg" onerror="this.onerror=null; this.src='http://www2.clustrmaps.com/images/clustrmaps-back-soon.jpg'; document.getElementById('clustrMapsLink').href='http://www2.clustrmaps.com';" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4757168961725238515-8237522965868552820?l=e-i-consulting-virtual-worlds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-i-consulting-virtual-worlds.blogspot.com/feeds/8237522965868552820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4757168961725238515&amp;postID=8237522965868552820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4757168961725238515/posts/default/8237522965868552820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4757168961725238515/posts/default/8237522965868552820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-i-consulting-virtual-worlds.blogspot.com/2008/07/introduction.html' title='Introduction'/><author><name>eurominuteman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15477540942167610667</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dz4SydBNU-0/TR7enShTfDI/AAAAAAAAAXs/qqMwI8Kt1bc/S220/business-001.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
