exposure to virtual online worlds such as Second Life. After learning about Second Life in class‚ various research and creating an avatar online and exploring the virtual world‚ I am amazed at everything it has to offer. Second Life is not only a type of internet game‚ it is a space where there are no limits to your creativity and expression. Strong communities are created and are even supported by the avatars’ own financial system‚ the Linden economy. Second Life is a place where you can meet and interact
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interest rate is 10%. a. What is the NPV of this project? b. Suppose that to raise the funds for the initial investment‚ the project is sold to investors as an all-equity firm. The equity holders will receive the cash flows of the project in one year. How much money can be raised in this way—that is‚ what is the initial market value of the unlevered equity? c. a. Suppose the initial $100‚000 is instead raised by borrowing at the risk-free interest rate. What are the cash flows of the levered equity‚
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Virtual World – A Study of Second Life As a virtual world accessed through the internet‚ Second Life offers a three dimensional online digital experience that is imagined and created by its own inhabitants. Second Life boasts over 15 million users and is a universally appealing service. Many of the leading scholars on technology suggest that multi-user visual simulations like Second Life are at the edge of revolutionizing computerized technology. As such‚ Second Life can offer incredible advantages
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Is Second Life Ready for Business? 1. How can Second Life provide value to businesses that use it? Second Life can provide value to businesses in four ways: by offering support to essential business functions‚ offering a low-cost platform to conduct meetings of workers and customers‚ increasing brand image‚ and as a recruiting platform for new employees. The program can offer support to important business functions like customer service‚ product development‚ training and marketing. For all these
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Case Study 4 Second Life is made up of individuals who want to experience a virtual world. There are college students in this virtual community as well middle-aged adults who both want to experience virtual destinations. Second life is already taking steps in making Web 2.0 technology‚ as they are revolutionizing the virtual community. They are doing this by adding options to visit real life places through advertisements on Second Life. This is providing them with a strong marketing technique because
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January 2012 There are thousands of places to visit in Second Life that will fascinate and sometimes question your mind. Once users of this program understand how to navigate various locations by teleporting and learn how to interact with objects. Everyone has the ability to enjoy whatever their destination preference is and have their own way of experiencing these destinations. I think that is the real beauty of exploring Second Life. My first teleportation selection was in the destination
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How to Improve Your Leadership Skills in Life and Business Tips on How to Become a Genuine and Effective Leader If your life’s purpose is close or similar to become someone that the word Leader would fairly represent then you should be very concentrated on where you need to focus on more. If your focus is on how to get more people to follow you then you have to change your mindset. Your focus instead should be on How To grow yourself as a person and ultimately become the one that others will follow
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Discuss and provide examples of the changing factors that will influence business in the future (e.g.‚ new investment techniques‚ new forms of communication‚ new management structure‚ new technology‚ or new marketing techniques). Select 2 of the 5 identified factors and explain in detail the factor that was chosen and provide an example. New marketing techniques Green marketing is very important as the problems of environmental protection are essential for all countries all over the world nowadays
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Background of the study The problem of the conducted research is about the company’s sales monitoring and inventory system. Keeping records of sales and inventories manually are the current method used by the company. Due to this current method of inventory system‚ the company has encountered several problems regarding the monitoring and stocks checking. KONEK.COM management once said‚ “Manual method is very hassle and time consuming process of inventory. It has many drawbacks as there are many
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Future Life Our daily life in society seems ever changing. So then‚ why do we still use the phrases “same old same old” or “same shit different day”? Everything we feel and go through on a daily basis to a lot of people seems to be the same as it was years ago: war‚ famine‚ economic downfall‚ job loss‚ and a non-social society segregated by time‚ technology‚ and worst of all money. “Same old same old” is not the case! Change is all around us 24/7 in everything we do. Society is in fact what
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