Meep! An Accidental Business

You'll hear me meeping a lot in this blog.  For those of you who don't know what meep means, join the litter.  The Urban Dictionary says meep is one of "the most versatile words in the English language, or in fact any language!"  It can mean whatever you want and tha's exactly how I use it.  If it's ever not clear which meep I'm using, ask in the comments and I'll let you know exactly what I meep.

Meep! A business Avatar!  That's the last thing I'd ever thought I'd end up doing in my Second Life,  and the reason why I'm calling this blog The Accidental Avatar.  I don't have a creative bone in my body, but it turns out that most of my friends inSL are chock full of them.  [Editor's note: If you don't know what chock means you'll want to use Webster.Com, not the Urban Dictionary.]  All around me my friends were creating things.

CapabilityTodd Elswit was making buildings, Orinoco Beresford was making furniture and sheds, Phinneas Vella and Zak Escher were making shapes, and CJ Escher was making babies.  Well...CJ is making weddings which leads to making babies.  And Aevalah Nicholaidis was making fountains and starting a modelling agency.  Even our friend Blue Revolution was creatively figuring out how to use things like vendors, rental systems and the like.  Though we suspect his true creative bent is starring in machinima porn.

Liberally mixed into this creative maelstrom were kind hearts and gentle souls that shone through their Second Life Avatars.  As I stumbled through this gifted whirlwind I accidentally found out that business in Second Life doesn't have to be about cut-throat competition like Real Life.  Together we shared ideas and resources to help jump start each of our businesses so that builders and designers can fulfill that urge to create.  

I was lucky to accidentally fall into a nurturing and supportive environment like this, but it doesn't have to be accidental.  In future posts I'll be sharing the things we've learned to make our SL businesses and lives better and I hope you'll feel free to comment and share your experiences too.

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