IBM reports on a conference held in Second Life (.pdf): pdf): “The meeting in Second Life was everything that you could do at a traditional conference—and more—at one fifth the cost and without a single case of jet lag”. Benefits Benefits reported: reduced cost and increased productivity (i.e. less time traveling to/from conference).

IBM has released a 3D game to teach engineering concepts to kids. Read more about IBM and TryScience here . It comes complete with lesson plans for teachers including one called windturbine design and build challenge. They are working through a group they helped form called TryScience . You can read about their other partner, New York Hall of Science

Link to INNOV8 IBM Academic Initiative YouTube - Sneak Preview & Innov8 Demo Innov8 – FAQs WHAT? the 3D business simulator allows you to virtually participate in a BPM project derived from IBM’s real world experiences. you have to register and become a member of the IBM Academic Initiative (an innovative global program to collaborate with educators in teaching students) to gain FREE access to this 3D business simulator Innov8 is a FREE interactive 3D business simulator (Free of charge to universities at least. Registration required!),

The big news is that IBM announces a development deal with Second Life to bring their platform to the enterprise. Virtual Worlds III is in full swing up in New York and around the blogosphere. This is yet one more piece of the puzzle that falls into place for a vision for what I am calling the i-web singularity: A technological black hole at the apex of four technological vectors that is moving forward at an exponential pace and integrating across vectors at the same time.

The two videos provide you an overview of Lotus Connections. This is helpful for those who wish to have an inside look on how social networking is applied in Enterprise 2.0 applications. To see the full view of the presentation, click the top right corner and expand to show the full screen.

IBM has the visualization tool " Man y Eyes ." Visit the site and try to upload some form of data and select the different ways to create a visualization. Visualization of data, interaction or process is an area where there is a lot of progress in web 2.0 tools and widgets. Searchme.com and C Dragon are good examples.

that incident by using the collaboration tool developed by IBM Research and ask (from CNN Money ) "The new collaboration software enables users with low or no vision to report report Web content accessibility issues they faced on specific Web pages. In In

I think IBM's policy is a pretty good starting point: IBM Social Computing Guidelines Other company policies or discussions of guidelines I've seen around blogging, social media, web 2.0: Feedster Corporate Blogging Policy Thomas Nelson Blogging Guidelines Plaxo Public Internet Communication Policy Hill & Knowlton Blogging policies and guidelines Yahoo Employee Blog Guidelines BBC Blog Guidelines Sun's Policy on Public Discourse Groove What Should Your Corporate Policy Be On Blogs? One of the barriers commonly cited during my presentations around eLearning 2.0 (use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools.

Here are the social bookmarking tools that I commonly cite in presentations: BEA Pathways Cogenz Connectbeam del.irio.us - perl based, very similar to del.icio.us IBM Lotus Connections Scuttle – Open Source WSSsearch - SharePoint add-on Any others? I was just asked on twitter about use social bookmarking tools that work behind the firewall. I thought I had blogged about this before, but I'm not finding the post.

The learning community's Mark Oehlert (aka ChuckNorris Mission) is quoted and the article highlights some of the big work being done in Secondlife by the likes of IBM and others. "We're really at the very, very bleeding edge of companies doing this," said Mark Oehlert," an associate at the Booz Allen Hamilton technology consulting firm in Herndon, Va. "For one thing, I think people are still trying to answer, 'What can we do better in Second Life than the other ways we're already doing them?' " IBM's interest is significant, he believes, because it brings instant credibility to this