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Obama Administration’s Deputy CTO Beth Noveck Takes Questions from Second Life

Community, Education, events, Marketing, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on July 21st, 2009 No Comments

White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Beth Noveck, recently participated in a mixed reality event to promote her new book, Wiki Government.

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The Obama Team Officially Gets a Second Life

Community, Education, events, Marketing, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on July 17th, 2009 5 Comments

President Obama speaks to a live audience in Ghana, while his address is streamed to audiences in the virtual worlds of Second Life and Metaplace. The event was announced by CBS News and organized as an official White House event by the U.S. State Department.

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