Real Voices in Virtual Business

Mike O'Hara started an an audio podcast series a few months ago, he calls Voices in Business: The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast.  He's a skilled and enthuastic interviewer, and more importantly,  he's building a library of the audio thoughts of early adopters of virtual worlds for business.

Mike was kind enough to interview me last week, and our conversation ranged from virtuals worlds as social media to our avatar selves.  If you are interested in listening to our conversation it is here. 

But browse around his site.  He's got a joint interview with two of my favorite metaverse evangelists, Roo Reyonds and Ian Huges of IBM; and a separate interview with Kevin Aires, Virtual Universe Community Leader at IBM.

Others include Nick Wilson, known for the Metanomics series in Second Life, and he has just launched an  intriguging "lower the barriers for business" project, Clever Zebra; Peter Dunkley of depo consulting; and Frank Campbell, Chief Business Officer of MindArk, and Karl Alberts, Vice President Product and Marketing at Paynova who are working with the Chinese Government creating the Cyber Recreation District, a project aimed at linking up the virtual and real worlds for e-commerce.

Go have a look.  Mike  does his homework before each interview, and as a listener that is most appreciated!

February 10, 2008

Comments

[Mike O'Hara]

Thanks for the kind words Linda, it was a real pleasure to have you on the show.

Best regards
Mike

[trinnysoul]

Hi ! I live In Second Life for a short time. Business is a very interesting issue to discussion. More often you can read about business at various aspects in SL Lately I found a site of a magazine describing SL. I read an article “Rules of business”. Very absorbing, indeed.

[David Fairley]

The second life phenom is still such a surreal adventure and not sure how or why it makes sense for businesses to market themselves there other than branding?

David