Bringing Business Communication Into Second Life
Is your organization ready to experience the transition from a life of constant travel and the associated expenses associated with attending meetings across the globe? Are your employees constantly flying throughout the country, spending an hour to get to the airport, an hour waiting for their flight, 5 hours on the plane, another hour to get to their hotel room and yet another hour to travel to the meeting location, to then sit in a meeting room with colleagues or clients for a ONE HOUR MEETING? If this is a frequent scenario for your organization, then you will be glad to know that there is an alternative.
Collaboration in a Virtual World environment will allow your organization to achieve all of the results from that same face to face meeting, without all of the wasted time, effort, and expense. Imagine this scenario:
Your marketing team is getting ready to roll out a test concept of their new product. The Marketing Director calls for a product assessment meeting to be held. Each member of the team is told to meet in "Morocco". The members go to our website and sign on to Second Life directly from our home page. After signing in, each member is taken directly to a "Tutorial Island" that provides them with a detailed walk-through of how to coordinate and interact in their new environment. The training will consist of how to use their interface, what an avatar is and how to change their look and feel, how to move throughout the world of Second Life and much more.
After the initial orientation session, each team member is directed to their conference facility. Upon arrival they are greeted by a fully trained and knowledgeable Meeting Consultant. The Meeting Consultant's responsibility is to ensure that each team member is capable of participating in their meeting to the fullest extent. This includes providing them with detailed instructions on how to access the audio portion of their conference either through an audio stream, or via telephone conference and Toll-Free number, as well as how to view and access any documentation or presentations on their web browser or in-world.
Now that everyone is gathered in their "conference area", which today happens to be a recreation of a Moorish Castle, the Marketing Director asks her assistant to bring up the 3D model of their new product. Every team member now sees the 3D model on the workspace in front of them and is able to provide their comments and input. In addition, the assistant brings up the Power Point presentation related to this new product and the team members are able to view and follow along with the presentation in-world and via their web browser (based on personal preference).
So, what do we have? A fully interactive team meeting, a 3D Rendering of the new product to be launched, a power point presentation, an aesthetically pleasing visual layout, crystal clear audio conferencing powered by millions of dollars in audio conferencing equipment, an audio stream through the PC speakers for attendees who only want to "listen" to the conference, and the capability to collaborate in real time with various documents and products. All of this is facilitated by a fully trained Meeting Consultant that will provide a multitude of services.