Today's Google Listings for Virtual Worlds and Libraries offered two different examples of using how to market to different segments of virutal worlds. Could SLA find a way to use virtual worlds to market libraries and information professionals?
In a seasonal promotion, Virtual Greats has partnered with Universal Partnership and Licensing to bring fully branded Universal Studios "Monster" goods into Onverse, a free online world, Featuring such monsters as "Creatures from the Black Lagoon" "Full-body costumes featuring The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man will be available for avatars in Onverse. In addition, posters for those films will also be available to purchase in the Onverse costume shop titled,The Skeleton Closet." Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/26/prweb8909783.DTL#ixzz1cCKAgtjj Imagine the Halloween party you could attend as the Teenage Werewolf.
In a different venue, Authors Speaking is offering the first Annual International Book Trailers Award. Authors Speaking serves as a community of authors, teachers, librarians, teens and tweens, book clubs and bloggers. The site will serve to enable these groups to come together to talk about books. It will also serve as a hub to allow authors to virtually visit classrooms, libraries and bookclubs, and businesses. The awards program is open to book trailer creators and authors For more info read
