Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
Contact Me Subscribe to this blog
beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Although this article is really not very complimentary towards banking, it does point out a basic flaw in ROI -- what is the benefit of prevention? I once read a comment that Y2K was the biggest false alarm in tech history -- how ignorant that person was! Y2K was a non-event precisely because everyone busted their buns to prevent it and that prevention was worth every penny it cost. Oh, and by the way, I firmly believe that there needs to be a different level of regulations for "big" and "investment" and "community" banks.
When it comes to online identity, names matter. I have been beladona since I first became active online on a BBS and she will always be me. I have been beladona Memorial since 12.02.05 in SL. For whatever the reason, Linden Labs switched to a ridiculous system of naming when you sign up that requires you to make up an elaborate first name and sticks you with the last name of "Resident" . Literally thousands of SL users have commented and hundreds are watching the issue SVC-7125 https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7125 but LL has done nothing to fix the problem other than say the change is permanent and try and argue that it is even desirable.
From the Banc Investment Daily: "The largest 401K administrator in the US, Fidelity Investments, said the average balance of its 12mm accountholders was $72,800 at the end of Jun or 2.4% less than the end of March." I know that my savings is going down and down and down just as I am getting to the point of possibly starting to use it!. I try not to think about it too much because then my bitterness towards that 1% grows too great to bear -- Congress is so totally out of touch with the mainstream with their 100% legal, dental, medical, optical insurance and full pension benefits!
Actually? the mother's curse that I knew about was: May you have a kid just like you. That was one that I never passed onto my kids because it was so effective that it scared me.
Google Maps really has some cool stuff -- like being able to tour the Kennedy Space Center! This was a place that we went every single time that we drove to Florida, but I haven't been since Frank died in 2004.
The CFO of an organization, any organization, has a great impact both on senior management and the ongoing strategic direction of the company. There is little doubt in my mind that the changes at Linden Labs [whether you agree with them or not] were brought about by this man who is now leaving -- and that he did so at the request of the investors, who were looking for some ROI and a more traditional business model. Unfortunately for LL, they originally sold themselves as a "platform" and that was what teh investors are looking for, instead of realizing that they are in the entertainment business
CEOExpress
