linden lab – eightbar http://eightbar.co.uk Raising The Eight Bar Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 Virtual worlds and enterprise case study http://eightbar.co.uk/2009/03/04/virtual-worlds-and-enterprise-case-study/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:55:11 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2009/03/04/virtual-worlds-and-enterprise-case-study/ Continue reading →]]> Dave Kamalsky of Linden Lab (formerly of IBM Almaden) pinged me to point out that they now have a new blog called Working Inworld. Now, I wouldn’t usually repost this kind of thing, but one particular post that caught my eye was the joint IBM / Linden Lab case study on the IBM Academy of Technology events that were held in Second Life. It’s a very nice paper, worth taking a look at for some of the figures and business aspects around how best to make use of these kinds of spaces.

Oh, and there’s an interesting concluding comment:

After holding the Virtual World Conference and the Annual General Meeting in Second Life, the AoT agrees that virtual worlds will have a big impact on business, on IBM, and IBM’s clients. And, the best way to learn about virtual worlds is to use them – which IBM is now committed to doing.

This made me smile… no kidding… some of us have been around in this space for quite a few years now… in fact, I was reminiscing about my avatar’s brief TV appearance in an in-world business meeting 2 years ago, only the other day 🙂

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