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on 01/27/08
An essential premise of those who pitch real work in virtual worlds is that there's something about virtual worlds that makes the users "feel" as if they're together, even though they're obviously not. That there's something more "real" about sharing ...
This past week, Forrester, the global research firm, published its report "Getting Real Work Done in Virtual Worlds." In it, Forrester predicts that within five years, the "3D internet will be as important for work as the Web is today." Forrester rec...
I've gotten into the habit of responding to questions on the linkedin q&a boards that concern virtual worlds, Second Life, or other subjects such as global outsourcing, teleconferencing, etc that somehow bear on the work I do. Here's one of my typical...
Running a global IT outsourcing process made me realize how difficult it is to establish rapport when you never meet your counterpart in-person. Telephone doesn't work. Air travel might be helpful, but the cost of traveling half-way across the world ...
