BusinessWeek.com has a good roundup - "The (Virtual) Global Office" - of company efforts to use Second Life (the virtual world where you too can be two people or three...) by Rachael King: They hold meetings that are simultaneously face-to-face and virtual, they recruit new talent, they collaborate, and sometimes things get out of hand:
Cisco is among companies that recruit in Second Life. "My extended team uses Second Life primarily to recruit new talent," says Andrew Sage, a marketing vice-president at Cisco, adding that Second Life is good for finding workers under the age of 25. Yet even for an executive as tech-savvy as Sage, using an avatar in Second Life can be challenging. Early on, during a recruitment seminar for resellers, Sage accidentally caused his avatar to fly away while making a presentation. "Needless to say, it wasn't ideal," Sage says.
I hope he made it back to terra firma, so to speak.
Do you think they use PowerPoint in Second Life?
Virtual people staring at virtual presentation. Would anyone really be listening.
Posted by: Doug Cornelius | Tuesday, 06 May 2008 at 07:55 AM
Good question. Myself, I'd go sans slides. Or my avatar, Ms. Pesha Linden, would.
Posted by: jessica lipnack | Tuesday, 06 May 2008 at 08:01 AM