
By Tim Ferguson
Published: Monday 27 October 2008
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Name
Richard Davies
Location
North Yorkshire
Occupation
IT Manager
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Having meetings in the virtual world to save flying employees around the world...have these people ever heard of video conferencing!
Also...using the virtual world for project collaboration...someone should show them web portals!
I always wondered why businesses would be interested in a virtual world and all the examples given seem pointless because there are already good solid solutions to these problems in the real world.
I could only imagine a business using this medium instead of another if this was the medium that your customer base used.
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