As virtual worlds become prevalent in business, we need to learn how to present ourselves effectively. Since first impressions count just as they do in face-to-face teams, we need to take our virtual appearance seriously. In these environments, appearance is based on our avatars. Read More »
Collaboration
Here on WebWorkerDaily we regularly cover new collaboration tech, from virtual phone systems to multiuser video chat apps. All of these offer incremental improvements on the tech available to web workers, but what radical new tech tools might be in the distant future of remote collaboration? Read More »
To help counter the disconnection faced by telecommuters, Anybots offers a physical avatar, which displays a video at about eye-level as well as can be driven around a facility. All a remote team member needs to use the robotic avatar is a web browser. Read More »
We’re living in a social media world, and, like it or not, our avatar is often the first impression others get about us as we interact virtually on social networks, blogs, microblogs and other online communities. Our avatars are a representation of our brands —… Read More »
I’m a serial entrepreneur in a virtual world. How did a nice girl like me end up being such a geek? Was it because I read science fiction as a young girl while… Read More »