As Travel Costs Rise, More Meetings Go Virtual

Hi folks,

I tagged this on my del.iciou.us bookmarks but I wanted to highlight it here, too.  Interesting article in today’s NYTimes on company’s employing virtual technologies in the face of rising gas costs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/technology/22meet.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Maybe it’s only because I’m paying more attention to it now, but I feel like in the past several months, there has been a real explosion of new internet technologies for academic and professional initiatives.  This article ties in to what my group is doing in SL, because it points out  another way to collaborate, besides traditional “face2face” meetings.  And most importantly, it brings it down to a practical, simple rationale that we all can wrap our brains around – $$money$$.  Virtual meetings = no spending money on gas and transportation expenses.

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