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As I noted in Grundfos Primes Second Life Pump over on Your2ndPlace.com, Grundfos entered Second Life for a 6 month period to test the waters. The opening was today, and I was there for a part of it. Normally I would write this on Your2ndPlace.com, but since it touches on some things I would normally write of on KnowProSE.com, I'm writing about it on KnowProSE.com and making a preview available on Your2ndPlace.com.

The event ran from noon SLT (Second Life Time) to 6 p.m. SLT and had a pretty packed schedule. The lag monster was hitting me pretty hard but I managed to have a few side discussions while watching the opening presentation by Koldbaek Theas. The opening presentation was brief and to the point, and demonstrated that this was not only 'another corporate presence'. The majority of the event was about we humans minimizing our impact on the environment; that Grundfos bills itself as a supplier of some products which will help mankind do so seemed almost incidental. There was the standard fetish of Africa as far as needs, but that fetish is understandable - Africa is the most susceptible to many of the problems which were being discussed... and where the most good could be done in one spot. Still, it is always odd to speak of Africa when audiences are not truly familiar with Africa - something gets lost. I haven't been to Africa, and I know little of Africa other than what friends such as Bukeni Waruzi have told me.

Let me paint some background on all of this before I write about what the Grundfos presence was like.

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