Blog Posts About RootsCampSL

• Update on Second Life as a Platform for Online Community Building and Politics by Andrew Hoppin
• A Better World in Second Life by Joshua Levy
• Avatars Against the War (video) by Rik Riel
• A Smashing Success by Ruby Sinreich
• RootsCampSL Continues With Weekly Meetups (Ruby Sinreich, NetCentric Campaigns)
• RootsCamp Notes from RootsCampDC (Joshua Levy, Editor, Personal Democracy Forum)
• Real World Organizing out of the Virtual World (LAVoice)
• Grassroots Politickers Go Virtual (Tony Walsh, Clickable Culture)
• Second Life and Public Relations (BrandToBeDetermined Blog)
• More Second Life Machinima (Aldon Hynes Orient Lodge)
• RootsCampSL: Debriefing the Lamont Campaign (Kevin Makice, BlogSchmog)
• RootCamps in SL line-up for the coming week (Rik Panganiban)
• NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen! (Beth Kanter, NetSquared)
• SecondLife RootsCamp: Real World Politics In A Virtual World. (Taran Rampersad, Staff at the World Summit on the Information Society)
• Rootscamp in Second Life (SL Photo and Media Advisory for Second Life)
• Laying Down Roots (Noted Second Life blogger Wagner James Au)
• Adding One and Two (Doc Searl's blog)
• NetRoots: progressive avatars plot regime change (E-Government Expert Rik Panganiban)
• An Unconference in Second Life (Information Scientist Fred Stutzman)
• The netroots come to Second Life (Netcentric Campaigns]
• Ruby's Second Life Roots Camp (Paul Jones' blog)
• RootsCamp in Second Life is happening now! (Library and Information Scientist Michael Habib-- he proposes a Second Life LibraryCamp inspired by RootsCamp! :)
• RootsCamp Comes to Second Life! (Rob Cottingham of Social Signal)
• Roots Camp in Second Life (Marnie Webb of Compumentor / NetSquared)
• Andrew Hoppin's DailyKos diaries
• Ruby Sinreich's DailyKos diary
• Continuing coverage at Ruby Sinreich's blog

See also:

• RootscampSL tag and group on Flickr
• RootscampSL on Technorati
• RootscampSL del.icio.us tag

Blog Posts About Second Life for Politics

• Andrew Hoppin's blog entry about running political campaigns in Second Life in parallel to real-life
• Gov. Mark Warner gives the first political press conference in Second Life
• The case for Second Life to be the next \"virtual Meetup platform\"

More Info

For those of you who may not yet be familiar with it, Second Life is beginning to explode on the national (online) scene as a bleeding edge locale for individuals, businesses, organizations, and even government agencies to build online communities and commerce. Relative to other online community toolsets, the experience of interacting with others in Second Life vastly more closely approximates real offline face-to-face interaction, which is why number of prominent Universities run classes and organizations run trainings in Second Life.

The RootsCamp in Second Life will offer the opportunity to:

1) Connect with and involve the Second Life user community, which is heavily socially networked and inherently technical savvy, in our RootsCamp work.

2) Enable Progressives who live far from any our our offline RootsCamps to "attend" a RootsCamp without traveling.

3) Give RootsCampers early hands-on experiential expertise in a medium that we believe will be an important campaign tool for 2008.

The Rules of RootsCamp

• 1st Rule: You do talk about RootsCamp.
• 2nd Rule: You do blog about RootsCamp.
• 3rd Rule: No pre-scheduled presentations.
• 4th Rule: Learners are experts, and experts are learners.
• 5th Rule: To present a topic, write it in an open discussion slot.
• 6th Rule: Have as many discussions as the room allows.
• 7th Rule: Discussions go on as long as they last.
• 8th Rule: Show support with your comments.
• 9th Rule: Show disinterest with your feet.
• 10th Rule: No tourists.

Learn from BarCampers

Fred Stutzman's advice after planning BarCampRDU:

http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/07/advice-for-planning-bar-camp.html

Things the planners learned from BarCampNYC1:

http://amitgupta.com/blog/shoebox/2006/01/17/barcamp-nyc-its-over/

http://nickgray.net/2006/01/barcampnyc-postmortem.html

General attendee feedback from a BarCamp:

http://barcamp.org/BarCampNYCPostMortem