Tag Archives: virtual meetings

Wed, Sep 1 2010
Unisfair to launch virtual classroom

Unisfair to launch virtual classroom

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Press Release: Unisfair launches virtual training environment Shown to reduce costs by up to 95% Companies like IBM, Intuit, Novartis and ACS Are Leveraging the Unisfair Virtual Classroom to Easily and... 

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Wed, Sep 1 2010
Latest Teleplace release supports Sharepoint

Latest Teleplace release supports Sharepoint

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Press Release: Teleplace Enterprise Fall ‘10 Adds SharePoint Support, Enterprise-Class Enhancements Commercial, Government Customers Benefit From Enhanced Collaboration, Security, Scalability,... 

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Sat, Aug 21 2010
OpenSim business roadmap: past, present and future

OpenSim business roadmap: past, present and future

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My company is a small, enterprise user of virtual worlds. Over the past year, we’ve used them for meetings with partners, new hires, internal collaboration, and external business networking. There... 

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Mon, Aug 16 2010
Free seminar on making 3D events more productive

Free seminar on making 3D events more productive

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Press Release: Free Online Seminar in 3D: How to Make Your Online Meetings More Engaging and Productive According to a recent Gallup study, disengaged workers cost US companies over $325 billion each... 

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Fri, Aug 13 2010
VastPark not dead, serves top-tier enterprise clients

VastPark not dead, serves top-tier enterprise clients

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Despite rumors of its demise, the Australian virtual worlds company VastPark is not dead — in fact, it’s recently seen quite an uptick of interest. In April, the company won a prestigious contract... 

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Wed, Aug 11 2010
Why virtual worlds suck for business — and some solutions

Why virtual worlds suck for business — and some solutions

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Wagner Au and Gwyneth Llewelyn have recently posted thought-provoking pieces about how to make virtual worlds more engaging. Au proposed an achievement system to encourage new users to make friends and... 

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Wed, Aug 11 2010
Why virtual worlds are important for business

Why virtual worlds are important for business

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There is a ton of debate and discussion and information Out There about why virtual worlds are, or aren’t, or might someday be, important for business. Important, that is, to people who are wearing... 

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Wed, Jul 21 2010
VenueGen adds enterprise collaboration

VenueGen adds enterprise collaboration

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Press Release: VenueGen Announces New Enterprise Collaboration Capability for Its 3D Web Conferencing Platform VenueGen Releases the First Multi-Dimensional Platform for Web Collaboration RESEARCH... 

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Tue, Jul 20 2010
Teleplace adds Sharepoint integration

Teleplace adds Sharepoint integration

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Enterprise virtual world vendor added support for the Microsoft Sharepoint service, the company announced today. Teleplace is one of the leading providers of enterprise-grade, behind-the-firewall, fully... 

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Mon, Jul 19 2010
Media-on-a-prim coming to OpenSim in two months

Media-on-a-prim coming to OpenSim in two months

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Earlier this year, Linden Lab released Second Life Viewer 2 which, though it had a large number of usability problems, also offered one huge advantage for business and education users: the ability to put... 

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Fri, Jul 9 2010
The grid is another country

The grid is another country

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For the past year that I’ve been attending meetings in Second Life and OpenSim, I’ve been thinking of the virtual platforms as another kind of collaboration tool. I compare it to Web-based... 

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Mon, May 17 2010
ProtonMedia, RWD partner to bring 3D to HR

ProtonMedia, RWD partner to bring 3D to HR

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Press Release: Enterprise Human Capital Management Goes 3-D RWD Technologies, LLC and ProtonMedia forge partnership to deliver world’s first 3-D immersive workplace for human capital management BALTIMORE... 

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Thu, May 6 2010
Cisco Virtual wins Grand Ex Award

Cisco Virtual wins Grand Ex Award

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Press Release: Cisco Virtual and Hybrid Events Take Top Honors with Grand Ex Award Cisco Sweeps Global Event Awards Program With Virtual Events in Two Categories and Takes Top Honors Among All Global... 

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Wed, Apr 21 2010
Analyst: Immersive workplaces may take a longer time

Analyst: Immersive workplaces may take a longer time

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Early mainstream adoption of enterprise immersive software will most probably not take place in 2013 because of issues regarding the ease of use and the scalability of those immersive environments. That... 

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Wed, Apr 21 2010
Gartner names ProtonMedia ‘Cool Vendor’

Gartner names ProtonMedia ‘Cool Vendor’

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Press Release: ProtonMedia Named “Cool Vendor in the High-Performance Workplace” by Leading Analyst Firm Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor” report are Innovative, Impactful,... 

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Thu, Apr 15 2010
Joys and dangers of work avatars

Joys and dangers of work avatars

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If you’re a business manager considering rolling out virtual workspaces, you may think that an avatar identity is nothing more than yet another user account, the login credentials for a particular... 

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Sun, Apr 11 2010
Planning for a virtual future

Planning for a virtual future

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There are few things worse than making a large investment in technology only to find out a couple of years later that the rest of the world has decided to go in a different direction. Not only do you now... 

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Fri, Mar 26 2010
Law firm holds meetings, training in Second Life

Law firm holds meetings, training in Second Life

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New Orleans law firm Jones Walker has been conducting meetings and training programs in Second Life, the company announced this month. “We created office space where we could conduct meetings, make presentations,... 

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Thu, Mar 25 2010
VenueGen Launches Browser-Based 3D Business Meeting Platform

VenueGen Launches Browser-Based 3D Business Meeting Platform

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Press Release: First On-Demand, Photo-realistic Virtual Meetings & Events Platform Launches at DEMO Spring 2010 March 22 /PRNewswire/ — [DEMO Spring 2010]  Today, VenueGen (www.venuegen.com)... 

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Sat, Mar 20 2010
Designing for virtual visitors

Designing for virtual visitors

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In the last couple of weeks we’ve been traveling all over the hypergrid, here at Hypergrid Business, as preparation for the launch of our Hypergrid Worlds directory of hypergrid destinations. And... 

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