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YoutubePontiac Empowers United Spinal Association with Motorability Car Culture Island in Second Life
Pontiac's Motorati Island is getting a second life by making a very generous donation of the very successful seven-region car culture island in Second Life to United Spinal Association. The newly named Motorabilty Island aims to continue catering to the car culture community in Second Life with a twist, by providing an opportunity to empower the 10,000 United Spinal Association members to join Second Life and experience car culture events and activities in this very popular virtual world.
New and experienced Second Life residents will enjoy car culture related virtual events, activities, community building, educational seminars and pure racing fun on the many original venues and race tracks re-opening in early February. Event proceeds, sales of goods, and services from commercial enterprise and sponsorships will contribute to raise awareness and provide funding to support United Spinal Association programs in the virtual and real world. Visit us in Second Life here SLURL to location.
Major sponsor and coordinating efforts by the car culture community on United Spinal's Motorability Island is Jody DeVere (aka Patty Streeter in Second Life) AskPatty's very own president and member of the board of directors for United Spinal Association. DeVere's son Joseph was involved in a tragic car accident in 2005 which resulted in paraplegia. This event created a big passion in her to help provide non-traditional recreational and quality of life programs for disabled Americans. 
"I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been a participant in Pontiac's Motorati Island car culture community development in Second Life during 2007, what an awesome roller coaster learning curve experience. I want to thank Pontiac, Campfire, Leo Burnett and Electric Sheep Company for their tremendous support of all my activities related to United Spinal and AskPatty.com in Second Life ," stated DeVere. "On behalf of United Spinal Association's board of directors and its 10,000 members we are truly grateful to Pontiac and General Motors for the generosity of this wonderful gift of virtual car culture recreation and will continue to build on the foundation you so generously give for use by future Second Life residents to enjoy."
The newly named Motorability Island will continue to be home for many of the original attractions, racing and car culture themed events that made Pontiac's Motorati Island so popular with Second Life residents. The island will re-open with SLASCAR Fairgrounds Speedway, Dirt Track Racing, Drift Racing, AskPatty.com, Wonderland Cardin - A Female Friendly Certified Car Dealership, Parkade Night Club, Callie Cline's Beach Resort, Underground Resistance cruise night and street racing, an Off Road Monster Truck Course, and a few new builds that are sure to keep Second Life residents coming back. Visit us in Second Life here SLURL to location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/unitedspinal/135/17/27/
United Spinal's web presence off Second Life will be supported at the UnitedSpinal.org Second Life portal page in the works which will provide an open window into United Spinal's Second Life efforts as they offer the Second Life experience to their over 40,000 members. Beginning in March, the general public and United Spinal members will be able to join the unique virtual community via the UnitedSpinal.org website, which will link directly to Motorability Island in Second Life. The Motorabilty Island steering committee comprised of Patty Streeter, Amanda Shinji, Osprey Therian, Suku Ming and Toby Rainbow are already planning a big grand opening event to open the web portal to new residents and cut the virtual ribbon on the new United Spinal Motorability Island Welcome Center in April 2008. Visit the website at: http://www.motorability.com. AskPatty will also begin hosting "Caffeine and Cars" on Wednesday afternoons again, so stop by our venue for a visit.
Staying true to the spirit of Second Life, which empowers members to build the community, United Spinal Association is providing parcels of land around Motorbility Island to Second Life entrepreneurs and artists who wish to create their own projects devoted to car culture. United Spinal will review user's proposed projects and lease land parcels accordingly on which users can go forth and develop their own ideas, as they relate, contribute and benefit the Motorability community.
The growing popularity of Second Life, created by Linden Lab, presents a unique recreational, educational, marketing and fund raising opportunities for 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations like UnitedSpinal.org. It's owned and developed by the more than 11 million users that inhabit it, and has a real economy, real social dynamics, and the feeling of reality for its residents. The residents of Second Life own virtual land and participate in an online economy. Users pay for items through the use of Linden dollars, the true currency of Second Life, which can be accrued in various ways, including the use of actual credit cards - which generates approximately $7.6 million a month USD at Second Life.
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