Maxping comment on collaboration:
Collaboration is strongly suggested a growing market, no doubt.
The massively spreading collaboration platforms we see at the moment, are mostly offers that open source or a hosted service that have a "for free" option. So many SoHo user and young skilled professionals are using them. This exactly the step 3D web has to take - getting mature, getting serious and make the step in the CEO´s office of the companies with +500 employees. There is a market - any sales people out there ?
While collaboration technologies may be a newer form of
innovation in the workplace, they offer a way to bring people
together to develop ideas and work on projects. From audio and
video conferencing to digital whiteboards, all are making it easier
to communicate and promote innovation. These "newer" methods of
flowing information to the workforce are practical and tend to
engage the participants (and in ways critical for today's
geo-dispersed workforce) more than traditional methods. You've seen
me talk about collaborative virtual worlds in the past while being
on the blog soapbox- but what about the other collaborative
technologies on the market today?
Specific examples of collaboration technologies include: forums,
blogs, wikis, and social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn.
With the business world becoming increasingly distributed, it is
only natural that collaborative technologies pick up more steam.
Collaborative platforms are popular today; whether they are being
utilized to bring together a geographically distributed workforce
or decreasing company expenditures on outdated, marginal
technologies. There is a value proposition to it all. Through the
deployment of collaboration technologies success stories are in
abundance with more and more work being conducted virtually.
Today's collaboration and communication tools have transformed the
way we do business. Today, collaboration fundamentals are still
being established and there are a lot of first-generation
technologies that organizations are learning about and
adopting.
Forward-thinking companies are already adapting to a host of
collaborative technologies. The workforce has been revolutionized
by the introduction of collaboration technologies, with many more
new technologies to come in the future. As collaboration evolves it
will continue to introduce new ways of working. While all providing
a new (and improved) method of communication within companies and
amongst co-workers. Corporate innovation is an ever-changing
landscape and companies must stay up with the latest and greatest
to succeed and prosper.
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