Busy online and offline as well, also in the more private sphere where life is taking its toll.

As I'm currently working more actively a Danish context I've been less inclied to blog here lately - foir those who read this minority language, read our co-blog at secondlifedk.blogspot.com . Another excuse might be how Twitter and facebook community networking experiments are keeping my natural procrastination muscles busy, feeding a human desire for following gossip and other people's trajectories and interests. Some micro messages are more interesting  than others, I should say.Not more now, hoping to push a more active blogability.

Please meet Leng Soparath, filmed in a 2 minutes video from her dorm  (see blog link further down)! This promising young woman from Cambodia is smiling all over the face for pleasure of meeting her sponsor, and I LOVE when she mentions the bethkanterfamily in every second sentence. And, please meet Beth Kanter! Tonight on Twitter, I read her appeal for donations for sending one more orphan to college. An offer I could not resist, especially not after having viewed the video  that she recorded when she was visiting her protegée in Cambodia this summer during her stay for the Cambodian blogger conference! 

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media http://beth.typepad.com/

Beth uses this inspiring and encouraging blog as " A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nonprofit technology, educational technology, adoption challenges, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more"

Beth is a consistent blogging tagging twittering social agent, with a huge heart and strong connections in Cambodia. Visiting Leng Soparath was the highlight of her stay in Cambodia, she told me on Skype.

PS I'm proud to be on Beth's long list of active contributors. Actually I love the way she is conveying her message by sharing how people have used her encouragement to go further out in their own network to ask for support. And, she will soon launch a new campaign to support Creative Commons. I'll look out for that initiative!

Just logged in to my Second Life and found a notice:

"More RL Prof Development in Second Life. This week, on November 1, 2007 (GMT -4) . at 5:30 PM SL time, Kathy Schrock will present "Shedding Light on Web 2.0" a presentation about the use of Web 2.0 tools in support of teaching and learning. The session will be held in the large presentation area behind the Nauset building on Lighthouse Learning Island."

So far so good. Kathy Schrock is a veteran expert in the field and her insight is valuable.

What was striking me as perhaps a little tendential towards traditional  top down presentation style reinvented in the virtual world,  is the memeto at the end of invitation:

"PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE VOICE CHAT ENABLED SINCE THE PRESENTATION WILL BE PRESENTED VIA VOICE. You do not have to have a microphone."

Listen to the expert and do not expect any need to speak up for yourself! Or is that perhaps too much of a conclusion? After all, chat messages are still valid and not so interruptive, even though SL has become voice enabled a while ago. I'm sure Kathy has a powerful slides presentation up her sleeve.