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Where You Live:: Bothell, Washington

Job Title:: Chief Operations Officer, Vice President

Company or Firm Affiliation:: World2Worlds, Inc.

About Me:: World2Worlds is a diverse network consultancy drawing on engineers, designers, user-experience facilitators and other professionals worldwide. Kim Smith is the company's COO and Vice President. Ms. Smith's career includes nearly a decade as Sr. Vice President of Office Automation Training, Inc., providing computer and application training and course design for corporations in the Northwest. She spent more than 19 years in positions of increasing responsibility in operations, logistics, sales and management at several of the nation's largest Architecture and Engineering (A&E) firms, including CH2M Hill, Tetra Tech and Black & Veatch. An early adopter of virtual world technology, Ms. Smith founded RM Metaverse Services (now World2Worlds, Inc.) in 2006, providing metaverse design/build, community, commerce, branding and event consulting services to corporations entering that environment.

As a consultant to global publisher United Business Media, Ms. Smith co-founded and produced Life 2.0 Summit, the leading virtual event on metaverse development. In her capacity as consulting director of Operations and Sales for UBM Metaverse, she has produced virtual world projects for clients including Intel, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoft.

Website:: http://www.world2worlds.com

What type of Connections are you looking for?: All

If you use virtual worlds in your business, what is your primary use or intended use:: Metaverse development for corporate clients; conferences, tradeshows, events and meetings; social networking for professionals; collaboration, research and development.

Which virtual worlds platforms do you prefer:: Second Life, Lively by Google, World of Warcraft, researching others.

Kim Smith (Rissa Maidstone)'s Blog

Discourse on "Virtual World Economics-Fair Value for Professional Services"

In reading Sophrosyne's excellent post with her comments on the article I'd written entitled "Virtual World Economics: “Fair Value for Professional Services" and the interesting post by Dale Innis in response, I felt this merited a new blog of its own. Soph's argument (and John Jainschigg's at http://www.zzomg.com) argue that the virtual world economy is colonial, third world country and introducing atomic world pricing for goods and services would have a negative impact. I think though, that w… Continue

Posted on July 19, 2008 at 10:21pm —

Second Life Looks at Lively

Like most virtual worlds natives, we hate adding overmuch to the hype surrounding these profound technologies. And we're especially sensitive about claiming "firsts" — something corporations have been over-eager to do in virtual world spaces. That said, last night, Saturday, July 12 at 8 PM EST, we hosted Second Life Looks at Lively, a panel of major media virtual worlds watchers doing a week-one "first impressions" vamp on Google's introduction of their Lively virtual world service, this past M… Continue

Posted on July 18, 2008 at 8:59pm — 1 Comment

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At 9:11pm on July 18, 2008, Draxtor Despres said…: hi Kim, now friends here and over there! thanks for friendship :)

At 8:55pm on July 18, 2008, Kim Smith (Rissa Maidstone) said…: Yes, I know I'm on here twice. Unfortunately there was a problem changing my email address and once done, you have to have NING delete the account. I don't have time for this! I'll be using this profile and contact information though, for those that are interested.