CPA Island

XBRL International Conference via Second Life

Check out our video clip of the opening of XBRL International's 19th Annual Conference live from Paris, France and virtually in Baltimore (at MACPA offices) and on CPA Island in Second Life.

This highlights the power of this medium for education and learning activities.

See more photos of both the live and virtual events on our Flickr stream

More resources on XBRL:

CPA Success articles about XBRL

Our earlier virtual event featured a mixed reality session with the SF Feng live in an Francisco and virtually from CPA Island - see our blog post with links to archived video of the entire session

CPA Island welcomes University of Texas - San Antonio

Who said virtual worlds aren't really "real" networking?

I just finished a meeting with UTSA Professor, Jim Groff, Accounting Department Chair, in front of their new kiosk in the Accounting Education Pavilion on CPA Island 2 in Second Life. He was in his office in San Antonio and I was in my home office. I popped in to check on the work our interns did and there he was.

He mentioned that he wants to hold virtual office hours and possibly have guest speakers and even suggested a meet the firms event. These are all possible and in fact effective uses of virtual worlds.

Jim and UTSA join eight other University Accounting programs who are exhibiting on CPA Island (Salsibury, Stevenson, Cornell, UMUC, Towson, Frostburg, University of Central Florida, and Suffolk). We are excited to have UTSA join us - welcome!

Here is the link to their kiosk http://slurl.com/secondlife/CPA%20Island%202/159/196/27

This also follows the big news about UT being the first to roll-out a statewide university initiative in Second Life.