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"Love, Like Dim Sum"
Full title: “Love, Like Dim Sum: Real-World Lessons Learned and Relearned in a Virtual World”
Publication date: May 4, 2012 Kindle ISBN: 978-0-9855514-0-7 Amazon ASIN: B0080CR5DA Shortened Amazon link: http://buy.LoveLikeDimSum.com Kindle e-book list price: US$2.99 Book website: http://www.LoveLikeDimSum.com Book trailer: http://youtu.be/2YS4o5tqk3A?hd=1 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LoveLikeDimSum |
Synopsis
Virtual reality worlds are emerging as the next standard in social network platforms, adding a surprisingly powerful dimension to online communications and relationships. That extra dimension is creating strong emotional bonds between strangers – often unexpectedly – every day, all over the real world.
Because virtual reality is still in its infancy, we are learning much, not only about the technology, but also about the unique social aspects of virtuality and the consequences that result from them.
In “Love, Like Dim Sum,” Lea Tesoro (known in Second Life as Opal Lei) shares the lessons and insights that she gained from her personal experiences and observations as a resident of Second Life – relationship lessons that apply to romantic affairs or platonic friendships, personal connections or business contacts, virtual world or real world.
Structured as a set of twelve lessons, the book delves into the differences between virtual-world relationships and real-world relationships, explores the reasons behind those differences, and offers advice on how to weave through this new social landscape.
With her diverse set of interests and skills, Lea touches on the technical aspects of virtual reality, as well as the business, the creative, the psychological, and the spiritual sides of virtual living.
The book speaks to a wide range of readers, from virtual world veterans to “newbies” to people who are curious about virtual worlds.
Because virtual reality is still in its infancy, we are learning much, not only about the technology, but also about the unique social aspects of virtuality and the consequences that result from them.
In “Love, Like Dim Sum,” Lea Tesoro (known in Second Life as Opal Lei) shares the lessons and insights that she gained from her personal experiences and observations as a resident of Second Life – relationship lessons that apply to romantic affairs or platonic friendships, personal connections or business contacts, virtual world or real world.
Structured as a set of twelve lessons, the book delves into the differences between virtual-world relationships and real-world relationships, explores the reasons behind those differences, and offers advice on how to weave through this new social landscape.
With her diverse set of interests and skills, Lea touches on the technical aspects of virtual reality, as well as the business, the creative, the psychological, and the spiritual sides of virtual living.
The book speaks to a wide range of readers, from virtual world veterans to “newbies” to people who are curious about virtual worlds.
Lea Tesoro
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Biography
The digital avatar named Opal Lei is animated by the biological avatar named Lea Tesoro.
Opal has been a full-time resident of Second Life® since August 2006 and has tried pretty much everything under the virtual sun. She turns human avatars into mermaids and mermen with her Mer Betta™ products and creates miscellaneous items under her Ms.O.Lei-ny™ brand. She initiated fundraising strategies for the International Spaceflight Museum, avidly supported the Relay for Life in Second Life, and strutted her stuff on the virtual catwalk of MODA Fashion.
Lea's literary career started at age 8 with silly poems about little brown birds, which are now lost. Her artistic career started in the sixth grade when she won an art contest which gave her the chance to attend a summer workshop to explore various visual arts media. Her technical career started when she wrote her first "Hello, world" program in the Pascal language during the first term of her Computer Science undergrad degree. She worked in the software industry for almost a decade and a half, including a nine-year stint at Microsoft. Her business career started when she dropped everything and drove cross-country to get her MBA. Her virtual career started when she learned how to fly. Or perhaps, she learned how to fly when her virtual career started. Through Second Life, she found full expression of herself as an artist at heart, a techie by mind, and an entrepreneur in spirit.
Her shrink calls her a Renaissance woman; her friends call her insane. "Love, Like Dim Sum" is her first book.
Opal has been a full-time resident of Second Life® since August 2006 and has tried pretty much everything under the virtual sun. She turns human avatars into mermaids and mermen with her Mer Betta™ products and creates miscellaneous items under her Ms.O.Lei-ny™ brand. She initiated fundraising strategies for the International Spaceflight Museum, avidly supported the Relay for Life in Second Life, and strutted her stuff on the virtual catwalk of MODA Fashion.
Lea's literary career started at age 8 with silly poems about little brown birds, which are now lost. Her artistic career started in the sixth grade when she won an art contest which gave her the chance to attend a summer workshop to explore various visual arts media. Her technical career started when she wrote her first "Hello, world" program in the Pascal language during the first term of her Computer Science undergrad degree. She worked in the software industry for almost a decade and a half, including a nine-year stint at Microsoft. Her business career started when she dropped everything and drove cross-country to get her MBA. Her virtual career started when she learned how to fly. Or perhaps, she learned how to fly when her virtual career started. Through Second Life, she found full expression of herself as an artist at heart, a techie by mind, and an entrepreneur in spirit.
Her shrink calls her a Renaissance woman; her friends call her insane. "Love, Like Dim Sum" is her first book.
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