 Okay where did you where did we leave off shall we continue okay I was talking about community building and we just saw a perfect example of community building that collaborative effort of our community members are getting the sound back on that was awesome that's what part of community building is all about whatever it takes working together this community to get things done that's gonna benefit the community networking I'm a network weaver I like networking with people I like chatting with people I like sharing information quite often I I will find try to find out what a group is doing so I can share the information when I do send my social media broadcast out and I'm not sure if you caught it before but you see this illustration here on this slide this is my so this is my professional network there's a program called in maps you can link to it through your LinkedIn.com the green there that's you that is my virtual based networks that I am connected to through LinkedIn.com networking I cannot say enough of networking networking that allows you to foster partnerships it allows you to link public health services and allows you to share capacity building resources my my whole program of capacity buildings came out of my real to virtual virtual real it's my feeling my vision that whatever goes on in the real world can be brought into a virtual setting that be a 3d or 2d non-profit social service providers of people who I target my share project to but this can benefit any other industry organization only your imagination stops you from doing what you need to do in real life and this is why I try to compare in real life you have your meetings you have your counseling sessions you have your conferencing you're training your networking you can just simply get it into the virtual setting one thing when you get into the virtual setting you have expanded your your your your reach your reach and a whole lot more people than you can right in a room I had a colleague who told me she has an individual who drives three hours for a one hour meeting so this is the perfect sample a perfect use of virtual worlds she could just come on board and do her meeting right from her computer meetings counseling networking same thing goes on in the real life goes on in the virtual worlds many you know training is ideal and that goes without saying before the educators that are using that I applaud you and it's just I plan to embrace it to continue doing laboratory training because quite often when you work with medical personnel they cannot return to yours training site to do training so we can do field training using the virtual world capacity building that's what it's all about capacity building using virtual worlds whatever it takes to help that nonprofit to enhance or to reach their mission that's what the capacity building my definition capacity building is virtual world social media is ideal platform to help them reach their missions we do have some issues when we talk about the virtual worlds usability I believe is the main issue is the challenge was also the focus and that's one of the parts of capacity building that share project extends making sure that these not in the nonprofits and organizations has the systems that is needed to for systems requirements the technology a lot of times a matter of upgrading sometimes this matter bring the whole system into their program and quite often we bring those systems to the program it expands of the services that they can provide to the community user training workshops I have a real to virtual virtual ongoing workshop series here in Baltimore and hopefully be able to care at other places where we do hands-on training going back to that 2009 skills building Institute that is dot gov pause magazine and the National Association people living with AIDS conducted that's what got me interested hands-on help me that's what I gear my workshops to be hands-on that basic boot camp type training so when the individuals organizations leave that workshop they're ready to go and only would need some mentoring or coaching once they got back to your facility and because to all organizations don't have a time to do go do a whole lot of training workshop what have you but we like to do some real hands-on training so they can understand what's going on so they can get the things working beyond this this whole workshop was called such presentation called beyond the beyond is basically beyond the second life I started this share project in second life but we want to expand so we can't be on second life so we can't to the open Sims and the first location we had our share project was in jacada grid and jacada grid is an awesome pro awesome grid and like I was saying before I had a care to introduce a local nonprofit who has a AIDS awareness youth program into jacada grid and this is where they set their program up because of this family friendly and youth friendly so also budget friendly was and a great community support there but when I went to expand even great in to another arena this is when I my vision was to set up the awareness of an awareness village and this is where the share village came into place and this was has been started in I'm sorry in Kiteley why in Kiteley because I can add and have unlimited number of virtual worlds there and the whole ideal is to set up a complex where I can have other areas for the individuals or social service providers can go to and can meet what if they want to leave the on share project sir share village excuse me one of those things we have like a business we have a business world we have a retreat area as well but the share village in Kiteley which is sponsored by share pros consultant network provides space for AIDS service providers organizations awareness campaigns and programs and it also is linked into having retreats and conversing which is an ideal set up we can also have it as open and could have it as a private setup if we need to have a private setup and these this is just showing some the collaborative efforts of some the collaborative components of share village because we work with non-profits set up a partnership the picture you have we have here at the top and I'm not for sure if I do this little pointer but the pictures we have here at the top where you see the row of houses that is a non-profit row nonprofits will be invited to set up an office right there on that in that particular community where they can get their information out about their organization so that therefore their organization is not just located in their local community but it's located in their worldwide virtual community the tall white building that's our wellness center within our wellness center we're gonna have a spa but we also have a our campaigns a lot of the campaigns and you see the picture to the your lower lower right I guess your lower left my lower right is our room that is showing one of the campaigns that centers of disease control has put out which has been very very helpful it's one of our favorite campaigns it's about working together to stop a sister stop HIV and that's the thing sharing those campaigns in this environment and we will mention Pinterest early and then one of the things of Pinterest I use Pinterest to link my various social media projects of works the first one you hear it's our HR or H share project our HIV related Pinterest pages as we were talking before you want to use images that are not copyrighted if you're gonna use a copyright image you need to contact the owner of that copyright to get their permission that's just where I operate I like to use of government campaigns or such as the CDC campaigns or will be for HHS campaigns though a lot of their pro images are public domain you with some are covered with a lot of my public domain but regardless of which ones you're using you want to make sure those images are connected to the or the source you don't want to use so for instance a share project image and you can connect it to jack gem.com it doesn't work it's all about that collaborative interaction using these social media and the virtual world in a collaborative responsible fashion the second board here and this is what we refer to as our Pinterest board it has these pins on these pins are related to open sims activities another thing about that community building whatever things are going on in open sims we try to put it up on the boards in the on our Pinterest page and it's all about connecting using the virtual worlds to connect there's a lot of nonprofits who do a lot of things but they just don't have the time to meet physically or they're not situated in the same country state or whatever to even meet physically so we I really see myself using the virtual worlds connect these people what you see here as I meet up and we usually have a meet-up in the kite league or get to meet the diverse community members also get these get ideas and share information we have our partners show our role our A's awareness videos and one thing about the virtual worlds you can scream in your YouTube videos which works very nicely one of the biggest challenges in addition to the technical challenges which always gets resolved when the biggest challenges is educating potential users that virtual worlds integration is not a game recently I had a colleague to talk to tell me oh yeah you're doing that 3d stuff I play that game all the time no this is not a game it's not a game to disable individuals it's not a game to deploy military personnel it's not a game to researchers it's not a game to so many people in the industry and because it's not a game that's why I'm very passionate about getting introduced in virtual worlds to nonprofits who are trying to do something about HIV A's in the United States as well as worldwide the United States that are not the national HIV A strategy for the United States is to reduce the number of new HIV infections increase access to health care and to reduce HIV related health disparities now it's at a point now that we have to start thinking out of the box I cannot see a better way to think out of boxes to think out the box virtually that's why virtual worlds will always be a key part of my HIV A's awareness promotion and training programs sometime ago Jeff Crawley from the White House Office of Policy said we're gonna have to really start thinking out of the box it's not business as usual definitely virtual worlds make it not business as usual so like I was saying before health care or any other social component of social way you're reaching out to the community virtual worlds and social media is keep it it's a channel of communication you want to get that information out there one another big big big challenge it's been funding because and I think it's because a lot of people do not understand I'm sure a lot of you have the same experience because a lot of people do not understand and instead of say some of those people are funders do not understand what or how the virtual worlds can benefit a program too often the funding is not there from for some awesome initiatives so hopefully by educating the general public and this is one reason I'll come to put things up on my Facebook business page to keep it unfurrent keep it out there I've been broadcasting this conference throughout the week throughout the past couple months letting people understand that this is a valuable tool this is a seamless tool so hopefully the funding will come for programs that's out there that's helping the community this shared project is a self-funded capacity-building training program and we're always looking for funding because it gets really challenging it gets very challenging but the passion to use virtual worlds just keeps keeps the program going it might sounds a little Pollyanna but the passion is just too great not to pursue the particular of the particular channel of communication and that's what it is it's a channel communication that is to that is excellent for capacity-building for awareness and for training as you'll see on the slide here I've left my put up my contact information and the links to some of my pages I'm a big tweeter tweet me share the information I love feedback if you're in Kiteley or you when you're in the ring in the area drop in the share of village or you can also visit our face our Facebook business page which is shared project and then that thing will gain that that concludes my presentation and I'm open for any questions sometimes it takes them a minute to format those questions out okay wait a few minutes you're still here wait a minute or so it takes a while for formulate those questions audience do you have any questions or Sally there's one now have you seen a lot of traffic in Kiteley the traffic is starting to pick up I've been in Kiteley I was look for the past what since 2012 believe it is the traffic is starting to pick up and I was I think yesterday many of you heard Ian was talking about the marketplace they've just opened up that shoot I'm looking forward to that generate that even more traffic as a matter of fact we're using we have a store there because we're using as a fundraiser for our program so the question came up yesterday you know why how the residents and I'm one of those residents see that as a benefit of being a resident in Kiteley like I said it is serving as a fundraiser to help defer some of our costs any other question I don't see anybody typing so I'm gonna take that as a no what I want to do with this time then is thank Sally for go ahead for I would like to ask if any of you are using social media for your programs what I would like for you to special for your Twitter if you put your Twitter ID and if you just type your Twitter ID in your chat those who are online appreciate it our look me up on Twitter Facebook and come to an our fate our website I'm done okay we'll have a few more questions after we go off air in the meantime I want to thank you for what a wonderful and informative presentation that you gave and thank our audience for the questions and when you do get up be careful don't all leave it once and please if you will turn to your website web page at the HTTP colon slash conference dot open simulator dot com or got org 2013 to continue looking at the information to schedule have a great day at the conference thank you for your time so you're taking me to lunch now