Accountants party in Second Life (True story!)
What's an accountant's idea of trashing his hotel room? Refusing to fill out the guest comment card.
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OK OK, enough already, but I think we can all agree that accountants have a particularly dry stereotype, right? Not these guys.
Earlier this week Lee Hopkins was involved with a Second Life bash set up for a CPA Congress. That's Chartered Certified Practising Accountants Congress. In Second Life.
Last night I and Lindy McKeown presented at the Chartered Professional Accountants Congress here in Australia.
But rather than fly to Melbourne, Sydney or the Gold Coast we presented in-world, at a venue built especially for the event.
To say they (the CPA organisers) were nervous would be a MASSIVE understatement! I could see their avatars shaking from the podium {grin}.
But to everyone’s delight the event went swimmingly well. Naturally, there are always little gremlins that creep into any event and do their best to cause niggling annoyances, but they were kept to a minimum and the feedback from the audience has apparently been incredible.
Lee has a longer post and even photos of the event. The most clear benefit of running it in Second Life was highlighted in an email to Lee afterwards:
"Just to say congrats on a good seminar. I found it very good in terms of the venue layout, technicalities and content…I rarely can get into London, so miss out on most CPA Australia events even when they’re held over here, and am delighted to have been able to attend this."
Read the full post here. Who said virtual worlds were dead, hmmmm?
