Glob – The Indusgeeks Blog

Keeping up with the theme of Business Utilities for Second Life and other virtual worlds. This is an interesting article at CIO .

Also Forrester researcher Erica Driver has this to say on Virtual work spaces on her Forrester blog.

Indusgeeks is keenly working on developing business applications in Second Life and other virtual worlds to enhance the utility and productivity of these platforms. We are experimenting with a lot of approaches to deliver these applications in Virtual Worlds. Going in over the coming weeks we’ll post some interesting videos/machinimas to demonstrate this… keep tuned in for more.

- Sid

12 days after the Child Rights and You’s (CRY) virtual presence was soft launched by Indusgeeks we have now started to build up a considerable “tail” or trail on the web. We have yet to hold our inworld press conference and do the launch event in-world. We believe that’s part of Phase 2 and not Phase 1 as is usually the practice. As mentioned in the previous post we are still in the First phase of the campaign. Let’s see what the results have been so far :

1 . Hindustan Times – Front page box and then half page inside. (Real life newspaper)

2. Indiainfoline News. -

3. exchange4media.com

4. agencyfaqs.com

5. contentsutra.com

6. ITnewsoline.com

7. SecondLife Today

Blogs :

1. Russian Blog

2. French Blog

3. Your2ndPlace

4. Watblog

5. Indianpad

6. Alootechie

7. India-Forums

This in addition to almost all major aggregator sites like digg and boxxet adding it to their lists. Even one in Korea!! This is not an exhaustive list… by the very nature of web 2.0 it’s difficult to be exhaustive…. this is what a cursory search turns up on Google..

I am not even counting the lead up to this when the articles appeared in DNA and Business Standard and even Hindustan Times before. Also there was a small mention in Economic Times Delhi in the real life paper!

I am not trying for a minute to suggest that… marketing and newspaper hits etc. are the only reason to enter Second Life. Cheap publicity is a terrible motive , but it’s not necessarily terrible! Seriously though, I think publicity about the medium is not only desirable but required in India. Most people have very skewed notions of what Second Life or virtual worlds are all about. So a presence like that of CRY’s makes people sit up and wonder….. if a NGO is here can’t be all that bad… hmm.. maybe I should check it out!

And that’s precisely the kind of reaction required to bring virtual worlds into the mainstream Internet market and educate the masses and corporates about V-Training , Conferencing, Collaboration etc. which is almost never mentioned in the media in India yet…. So keep plugged in for Phase 2

Been too long since we’ve spoken here. Not because we didn’t want to but just couldn’t find the time, what with all the work………. Okay!Okay! so I was lying. We binged and partied and had a huge New Year’s hangover and finally got around to blogging now .

So what is Virtual Training ( V-training) , Virtual Collaboration and Orientation ? I am going to try to explain this over the course of the next month here . To start off here’s an interesting video on Zdnet.com

Indusgeeks is doing a lot of work in the corporate sector in India and abroad on these lines. Virtual is fast, easy and cheap for all manner of orientation, collaboration and training activities within an organisation be it Marketing, Sales , HR or Product Development.

This Indusgeeks video ( although tad boring ) demonstrates some possibilities by simulating a real life presentation on Second Life , using various 3D ( special tools/software developed by Indusgeeks) as well as traditional 2D A/V tools.