Virtual Workspaces
Sun Microsystems has just produced a short film that demonstrates one of their new workspaces, MPK20. Watching it really gives you a sense of how these virtual platforms can enhance and create new ways for employees to collaborate regardless of their physical location. You can learn more about their project here. Although I thought some of the audio overlap present in the video was distracting, I'll bet it's just a matter of doing a little tweaking to get that fixed while working in MPK20. Indeed, the audio environment of this workspace seems pretty advanced and conducive to all types of use. While watching this video, I kept thinking, here's a company that really gets it. They're not introducing something new just for the sake of it being new, but because they have found ways to apply this new technology to their work in a way that will actually help them and enhance their company's productivity.
In other news, I've finally gotten myself on the reference desk schedule in Second Life's Info Island. I'm going to start with a 2-hour stint once a week. Feel free to come ask me your burning reference questions this coming Thursday, November 15th, on the island from 6-8 second-life-time (Pacific time).
I'm looking forward to checking out Cleveland Public Library's new sim in SL, which opens next Friday.
We are conducting an IS Virtual WorkSpace Project and have some questions we would like to ask someone who is an expert on this topic or has implemented such a project in the past. Some of the questions are:
1. What approaches can be taken to make physical moves easier?
2. Overall concensus from people on how they feel about space?
3. Different forms of space formats? (Sharing, Hotel Fronts, Podding, etc.) Pros and Cons of each.
4. Best way to use less popular space?
5. What have large companies done in the past regarding office space issues. What has worked and what hasn't.
Posted by: Rick Storck | Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:51 AM