Category Archives for "Blog Articles"
June 1, 2009
- in Blog Articles by Erica Driver
ThinkBalm Innovation Community leaderboard is in 3D
One of the elements of the InnovationSpigit(tm) software that ThinkBalm uses to run the ThinkBalm Innovation Community is a leaderboard. The leaderboard displays the leading ideas, prediction markets, and community members (see Figure 1). Because the ThinkBalm Innovation Community is all about immersive environments, we recently hired OpenSim guru Chris Hart, CTO of ReactionGrid, to bring three of the […]
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February 23, 2009
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The Coaches Centre pilot: 14X revenue generation, travel costs reduced by $1M CAD
The Coaches Centre is a new immersive environment for sports coaches and coaching education professionals worldwide, in affiliation with the International Council for Coach Education (ICCE). The ICCE’s mission is to create awareness of sports coaching as a profession, standardize coaching education requirements around the world, and provide insight and advice for rules committees and sports-related […]
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February 20, 2009
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Meet the ThinkBalm Innovation Community expert panel
A few members of the ThinkBalm Innovation Community have black graduation caps among their badges and have reputation scores of 100%. This is our expert panel. Our experts: The InnovationSpigit(tm) expert badge Have agreed to help to review and promote ideas through the idea lifecycle. Before an idea on the ThinkBalm Innovation Community Web site […]
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February 10, 2009
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Virtual office: A window looking in on my world
Last month I ran a little experiment. For about two weeks I stayed logged into ReactionGrid to see if it would lead to valuable serendipitous interactions. (I wrote about this in the related article, Lightbulb moment: for serendipity, stay logged into the immersive environment.) What I found: staying logged into my virtual workplace made me feel […]
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January 23, 2009
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IBM Lotus approach to Immersive Internet: partnering and professional services
IBM Research is a big proponent of the Immersive Internet, especially in the Digital Convergence business unit. But what about the IBM Software group – in particular, Lotus, which produces IBM’s enterprise collaboration software products? ThinkBalm’s theory about the enterprise immersive platforms market is that ultimately software companies that provide information worker infrastructure (like IBM) will deliver […]
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January 19, 2009
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Lenovo pilots Nortel web.alive for innovation in customer experience
Nortel web.alive is an enterprise immersive platform currently in beta (general availability release date not yet announced). Nortel is targeting three use cases in large enterprises: enterprise collaboration, eLearning, and what it calls “assisted community eCommerce.” The company recently announced that PC manufacturer Lenovo is doing a web.alive pilot to support the sales process (see […]
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January 14, 2009
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ThinkBalm Storytelling Series Issue #2: “End Death-By-Lecture: Tours, Not Speeches”
The ThinkBalm Innovation Community has been experimenting with a new form of immersive event: the “un-lecture.” An un-lecture is a 60- to 90-minute event during which four or five community members each deliver a 10-minute demo, tour, or presentation about something enterprise Immersive Internet-related that they have done or are working on. The purpose of […]
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January 6, 2009
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Lightbulb moment: for serendipity, stay logged into the immersive environment
Yesterday I kicked off a little experiment and it ended up being an extraordinary day: for the first time I experienced what it really means to have a virtual office where associates stop by and unplanned interactions occur. It’s no small thing. Nearly a year ago when I was an analyst with Forrester Research I […]
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November 10, 2008
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Recipe for a great 3D brainstorming session
In late October the ThinkBalm Innovation Community held its third brainstorming session. Sixteen members of this vibrant tribe gathered to discuss a question one of the community members (Leslie Pagel, VP of Customer Experience at Walker Information) was wrestling with: “What can I do to get newbie professionals started with Second Life?” Given that Leslie’s […]
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October 10, 2008
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Second Life survey says: “Try it for work — you’ll like it”
The non-profit Social Research Foundation recently announced the results of its Second Life Annual Survey 2008, a Web-based survey of 1,258 Second Life residents who are part of the organization’s First Opinions Panel™. Thanks to Social Research Foundation, ThinkBalm was able to contribute a few questions about work-related usage of Second Life. Here are some […]
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