Virtual Dress Codes
The Telegraph has an interesting article today…
Click here to read the article in full in the technology section of the Telegraph. But for summary purposes, the article deals with the subject of companies imposing virtual dress codes for Second Life business avatars. According to IT business research and consultancy firm, Gartner, by 2013 an estimated 70% of companies will have drawn up ‘avatar codes of conduct’ for their employees’ virtual personas. They also recommend separating business and personal avatars so as to avoid tarnishing the company reputation.
Now… isn’t this just common sense? If you are a serious business with representatives in Second Life, why would you not already have your staff on separate avatars for business and pleasure? And it makes sense that you’d want the avatars to look professional, surely? As a consumer, I would be more likely to trust the word of a professional looking avatar, for example, than of someone in a child avatar pretending to be a five year old with a speech impediment, the likes of which have never been seen before.
“Hewwwwoooooooo, yoooo buy da things fwom me? MUMMY, da nasty man say he no buy da fings.”
Urgh. I hate pixel kid speak. But anyway, let’s not get me going on that.
Anyway, I thought it was rather an interesting piece. And you know how bizarrely excited I get when I see something about Second Life in the news and there is no mention anywhere of a nyphomaniac hermit abandoning her children to run off and marry someone on the other side of the world. It’s refreshing.
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Adric Antfarm
Look dude, me and that lady/dude are in love and her kids are almost out of pre-school and self-sufficient for the most part.
And it was not the other side of the world. It was Australia.
Josue Habana
Self sufficient before they finish pre-school. Wow… you advance fast on your side of the Atlantic. Mine will be at least 7 before I can kick him out and leave him to fend for himself lol!