Virtual Worlds: The New Green?
Much is being said (again) amid the current economic downturn about the benefits of meeting virtually. Might virtual worlds be an even more efficient, effective, and eco-friendly alternative to video-conferencing? Here's Bernhard Drax's latest news report from Second Life on a recent panel discussion moderated by the U.S. State Department on the rise of virtual workspaces. [Hint: There are more than 1,400 organizations doing real work and real meetings in Second Life already.] Drax's avatar, Draxtor Despres, is the guy in the glasses:
For more on Drax, see Mo' Real, a short profile and report by Drax on President Obama's health care reform plans that appeared here, on the Cause Global blog early last year.
For more on Drax, see Mo' Real, a short profile and report by Drax on President Obama's health care reform plans that appeared here, on the Cause Global blog early last year.
Labels: bernhard drax, green workplaces, machinima, second life, social media, video conferencing, virtual news, virtual worlds
posted by Marcia Stepanek at
8:30 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks Marcia Stepanek for doing this write-up. My vid is only scratching the surface of virtual work: an equally important aspect is job creation, which Hanno Tietgens mentions towards the end. The new cyber-worker so to speak: may he/she create and sell virtual goods and services or collaborate on modeling and protoyping for use in the physical world - for our children it will be tremendously important to efficiently navigate virtual spaces!
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