We are pleased to advise that we have our first content co-creation and web event series signed-up and underway = Ancient World in London. It is a time-based, online/virtual/mobile/live series that will inspire people to make their own discoveries of the history that makes London one of the world’s great cities. More info here and the micro-site is here. We think this first program will be the shape of things to come more and more for making online communities relevant and engaging. (more about the benefits for co-creation here). We think this is one way to deal with free content to users and also help getting brands above the noise on the web. In addition to monetization it will also help us generate new traffic.
Our web-oriented event and content series -- the Ancient World in London -- will run for 3 months. It is an example of how online communities to use a broad mix of media and tools to create new, popular content.
The Community Challenge
I don’t expect that just because we will make more web content and tools that those efforts alone will generate meaningful community effect. We will need to meet people live and mix events and contests into the action the online content. Part of our mission with Heritage Key is to make history/archeology more accessible and allow people to participate (somehow).
Visitors will be invited to join:
- Contest and Quests in London and in new 3d online virtual areas — and of course win cool prizes
- Contribute articles, images, video clips (and get paid a little)
- Attend lectures, discussions
- Help us complete a massive listing of places, artefacts, key people, timeline events and publications
- Share their ideas on good tours of London
Getting the balance between local London and sharing that online = globally will require attention. We are also excited about the Grand Finale event which will be live in London and webcasted/virtual simulcasted. It will be an ancient world costume party.
The content will be hosted using our Rezzable Real-time Community Platform which is comprised mainly of Drupal and Opensim plus a bunch of code of our own. More about our tech here.
Event Partners Still Needed
We have the main sponsor in place, but still are looking for Event Partners to support events and offer relevant prizes or services to the events/content series. If you might be interested please drop us an email at info@rezzable.com. It should be a great opportunity for a range of companies that might be interested in understanding more about the social web, online video and virtual 3D online.
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