A while back, I started talking about how we Second Lifers need to move from the Second Life communication systems to the straight internet systems that really work. 

• Outworld tools for promoting for inworld events
• Out of the Box for Collaboration Networks in SL

And more recently, I described how Google Wave is changing the way I do things in Second Life blogging.

• Informational Networking
• Google Wave and the Ecosystem of Second Life

The outworld network

A notecard sent out by the University of Western Australia tells the story of how second life pros are now turning to outworld promotion channels.  These are the links in that notecard.

The University of Texas project Transforming Undergraduate Education Program is building a statewide virtual learning community of students, faculty, researchers and administrators.  The project has 50 sims in Second Life to support that effort.  (These may still be in construction and not yet open to the public.)  

A friend of mine is involved in that project, so I asked him to write a summary as Guest Bogger.