Because I initially joined Second Life as a means of promoting the awesome community that I live and work in, my primary focus was always to find displays or builds that would help our city reach out to the community. One of the ideas I had thought about implementing was a “Code House” – a [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Using Second Life to Teach Building Codes
March 28th, 2008 
Pam Broviak 
Posted in Construction, Development, Public Works in Second Life 
Tags: building codes, code house, Public Works, second life 
Comments OffCan you communicate as well as a fourth-grader?
March 24th, 2008 Pam Broviak One thing that I have learned from my time in Second Life is how much all of us have in common even though we all work in different professions. Sometimes I think it is because all the work that we do, no matter the field, is based upon communication. Whenever anything goes wrong at work, [...]
Earth Hour 2008
March 19th, 2008 Pam Broviak Just a quick note to call everyone’s attention to the Earth Hour 2008 Web site and movement. Find out more and register your commitment at the Earth Hour 2008 site.
Second Life Build as a Deliverable
March 17th, 2008 Pam Broviak Over the last year or so since my first introduction to Second Life, I have found myself trying to think of ways that this technology can improve or prevent problems or issues that I have at work. As I blogged about the other day, we had a terrible problem with the design/builder of our water [...]
Posted in Public Works in Second Life Tags: construction, Public Works, second life, virtual works Comments OffKnowledge Networking Group
March 16th, 2008 Pam Broviak Today I attended one of the three weekly meetings of the Knowledge Networking Group that was set up by Farnham Farrjones in Second Life. Farnham lives in Texas and works for the EPA. He has set up the group to help all of us meet and discuss what is going on with integrating the new [...]
Posted in Public Works in Second Life Tags: knowledge networking, Public Works, second life, Web 2.0 Comments OffOh where have all the good consultants gone?
March 11th, 2008 Pam Broviak I don’t know what it is with our city, but we have never been able to find an engineering consultant that can actually deliver a design of a treatment system, water or wastewater, that works or that meets our design and operation requirements. With the ever growing number of engineering consultants out there, how can [...]
Posted in Civil Engineering, Public Works Tags: engineering, Public Works, water treatment Comments Off
