SL Arts Maven Canary Beck Joining New World Notes!

Canary Beck is one of the best Second Life bloggers out there (which is why we blog a lot of her blog posts, as here, and here), so I'm very happy to announce she'll be blogging for New World Notes too. Starting next month, start looking for "Canary's Queries" (working title), featuring her surveys of Second Life user behavior and fun tips on metaverse etiquette, among other likely treats. And as New World Notes continues expanding coverage on VR, High Fidelity, and other topics, Canary will help me insure NWN maintains a main focus on everything that makes Second Life interesting.

I'm sure just about everyone reading this knows a fair amount about Canary already, but in case you missed it, here she is featured in a great video by Draxtor:

And if you're not impressed already, here's here full official bio after the break:

Canary Beck (aka Becky) became a resident of Second Life in 2007, shortly after watching a CNN report about the new virtual world.

Highlights of Becky’s Second Life include the owning and running of the picturesque Italian waterfront region, Basilique, since 2012, where she hosts 3 weekly events and builds artistic performances. In 2013, Becky founded the Basilique Performing Arts Company which produces ground-breaking, large-scale, theatrical productions (e.g. Paradise Lost in Second Life as well as Romeo and Juliet). Paradise Lost had a 9-month sell-out run on the SL Marketplace, and received over 100 positive reviews by media across Second Life. Becky also enjoys singing, doing voice-over work and putting on photographic arts exhibitions under the Company’s umbrella. Since 2011, Becky has been blogging at www.canarybeck.com writing her unique, evidence-based posts about the social science aspects of Second Life. Using psychological and ethnographic approaches, she seeks to provide original and educational tools to help us better understand not only the virtual experience but also ourselves.

Becky’s research activities involve creating educational quizzes about Second Life History and authoring one of the largest studies related to sexual behaviour in Second Life. Her current projects include writing a book about Second Life Behaviour and Etiquette, and directing a full-length machinima version of Paradise Lost in Second Life.

Her contributions and perspectives are frequently recognised by Second Life media, community groups and Linden Lab. Draxtor Despres featured her in the “DraxFiles World Makers Episode 18: Paradise Lost” and she has shared her views on marketing Second Life as a featured guest on the DraxFiles Radio Hour with Jo Yardley. She was awarded a 6-month Artist-in-Residence grant to host the Romeo + Juliet Experience by the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA). Her photographs have been selected as the Second Life Pic of the Day and her region, Basilique, was most recently chosen as the location for the Second Life Inworld Meetup in May 2015.

Ms Beck is a frequent contributor and support team member of Second Life Blogger Support, where she writes articles related to marketing Second Life blogs, and supports bloggers in getting assistance from the SLBS community. She also was responsible for redesigning the front and back end database systems at Blogging Second Life (The Stores & Creators List), so they can better serve administrators and users.

In real life, Becky has a background in behavioural and social psychology. Working as a marketer for many years, she owns and operates a busy London-based internet marketing consultancy where she specialises in primary market research, website design, conversion optimisation, and search marketing. Personal interests include history, anthropology, gender relations, communications, and gaming.

Stay tuned for her Queries soon!

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[Damien Fate]

Welcome, Canary!

[Ciaran Laval]

Canary has potential but she has a funny accent ;)

[val kendal]

great addition!