BLACK AND WHITE BALL AT THE ASTORIA

The Astoria is pleased to present its first annual Black and White Ball!
Date: Saturday November 6th
Time: 2-4pm slt
Place: The Astoria Ballroom http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ocraco%20Island/73/146/23
Come in either black or white attire, dressed to impress. 1000L$ top prize for best dressed!!


DATE: NOVEMBER 6TH 2010
TIME: 2-4pm slt
LOCATION: The Astoria Ballroom


FEATURING DAKOTA CAROLINA, TASTY BAXTON AND DJ CECIL JARMAN

Manhattan Block Party! by Mokalatae Blinker

DJ URBANKING ON THE 1's and 2's bringing you them New York Party Jams to make you work them Prims so come on down for some good music, good people, and a real good time . See China Town and Harlem in manhattan like you've never seen them before.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Manhattan%20City/219/238/32

Here are some pictures taken by Mokalatae during the party

BeReal Openings Party New York City!

BeReal Opening Party! 12 - 2 PM SLT
Saturday, 06 Nov 2010 17:53:49 GMT

We now officialy open the BeReal Mainstore in the Centre of New York City!
We open our beautiful new mainstore with a great RL dj, Causticlaurent Beaton!
We give free hair away and we offer new skins so
Be there @ 12 PM and bring your friends!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20York%20Island/193/108/24

VA Bulletin, new way of sending notices

Update on group notices

As communicated yesterday we modified the regulations regarding group notices.

Why? Virtual Adventures is a group dedicated to the community in this virtual city. We believe sending out more than 2 notices a day will result in group members leaving our group.

What now? We assigned a press officer: Azurita Unimo, she will join all notices from our tenants in one or two daily newsletters (will depend on the amount of notices).

Tenants that are willing to promote their products in the virtual adventures group (1500 members) will give their promotion text or texture and a landmark of their store to our assigned press officer.

The virtual Adventures press officer will make sure you update get published in the first appearing edition after receiving your text. So make sure Azurita Unimo gets your promotion nc before our first edition of the "VA Bulletin" appearing tommorow


For any questions, complains or tips please contact:
MariadelCarmen Bekkers
VA Head of Communications

Sales go through the roof at VIDAL

Sales go through the roof at VIDAL in New York and Manhattan
Showing commitment and leadership Aspasia and Mokali lead us by example. Through effective promotion and understanding their markets, each had over 100 customers and in their stores in the space of two hours.
Let’s learn from these leaders starting now.

In chatting with Moka she shared her own thinking:
I have really enjoyed working in my new Vidal Boutique. It's very fulfilling to be able to help and serve my community by giving away new outfits to the ladies. We even give one to guys who might want to give their sweetheart a nice gift. It also promotes more awareness of the Manhattan Sim. I love my job and my new sim Home in Manhattan.

Disabled group notices Virtual Adventures

Till further notice we have disabled to option to send out individual group notices into the Virtual Adventures Group Tommorow new regulations about using this group for promoting will be presented to the Co owners and Designers Thank you! For any information feel free to IM me.Kind regards MariadelCarmen Bekkers

My note on communication between co-owners, the past few weeks and the future

After yesterday’s meeting I felt it was necessary to give my opinion on our organization so far.

Clear is that the city has developed itself to a different level then we initially
planned for. Our aim has always been growing on a healthy way.

So far, is that happening? I’d say yes.

Having teamed up with at least 2 co – owners for each region it must be possible to maintain a healthy community on every sim.

Being co-owner of this virtual city means you have your own responsibility for you core business (main store) and other businesses / residents paying to stay in your region.

What does it mean? Each co-owner should take responsibility to organize events for the community, attract business traffic for your tenants and make sure your region is living. Work on new concepts as hangout spots, hire models to greet people.
Tier and Income should be divided equally under co owners as agreed. See addition to terms added on October 28th

As co-owners we can learn a lot from each other, something that in my opinion is not happening enough. More often we should take initiative and inform for each other’s business, share ideas, experiences and successes.

As Java pointed out yesterday, New York at this moment is the sim where a lot of effort is needed.

Is there a reason why traffic and business intensity on New York is lower? I think so, after having started building New York we immediately opened doors for new business partners and new regions.

So, in my opinion the current New York Situation is a direct consequence of having expanded very fast.

Saying this I do NOT mean it was a bad thing to do. Java and I considered really well before adding more sims, believing in the potential and input of our co-owners we knew all regions of this city would be managed well.

Coming weeks will prove if we were right.

Furthermore I would like to point out we are a professional organization, representing Real Life brands who have entrusted their brands to us. Let’s keep that in mind at the moment we take decisions that will affect the city.

Offcourse I want to be able to say: We are the biggest and best looking city on Second Life.

But more important to me is: We should be the most reliable city, with the best organization. An organization in which people share the same vision, and focus together on achieving more.

Being reliable means we should consider well before taking decisions, what kind of effect will this store or hangout place have on the community? Can we add another sim? Is a new sim financially and practically reachable? Can we fulfill our Targets and promises?

All things I want us all to think about, together we make or break this city.

To finish a few personal notes.

Yesterday I started working full time again in Real Life as, a consequence I will spend fewer hours on Second Life. Realizing a lot needs to be done and organized within our Second Life business this is far from ideal.. But the challenge will be using my time as efficient as possible.

If not enough. Wednesday November 10th I’ll be off for a week of holiday to Abu Dhabi. Though I’ll take my laptop.. I plan to spend most time enjoying the sun.

To conclude: a quote I use often in RL
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.

Thank you for reading

MariadelCarmen Bekkers