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Future of Business? Incredible. If any of you
visit this world and decide to “live” there, please contact us from time to
time and report how things are going. I think I’ll remain back here on Middle
Earth and tend to real ‘home fires’ but have a feeling this makes me a Hobbit. kwc My Virtual Life: A journey into a place in cyberspace
where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living.
Big advertisers are taking notice. Business Week Cover Story, May 1, 2006 “A lot of other
real-world businesses are paying attention. That's because virtual worlds could
transform the way they operate by providing a new template for getting work
done, from training and collaboration to product design and marketing. The British branding firm Rivers Run Red is working with real-world
fashion firms and media companies inside Second Life, where they're creating
designs that can be viewed in all their 3D glory by colleagues anywhere in the
world. A consortium of corporate training folks from Wal-Mart Stores, American
Express, Intel and more than 200 other companies, organized by learning and
technology think tank The MASIE Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is
experimenting inside Second Life with ways for companies to foster more
collaborative learning methods. Says Intel Corp. learning consultant Brent T.
Schlenker: "We're trying to get in on
the front end of this new workforce that will be coming." Read Story and See both Slideshows: e.g. Land Baroness, Marketer,
Builder; and Timeline of virtual world software http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982001.htm |
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