Joining a VIP tour of IBM's Second Life island was an ebizQ associate, Dana Gardner. I found Dana's comments about the tour very compelling, and it has helped me form some of my own opinions about the future of technologies likes Second Life for business purposes.

Some of Dana's comments:

"It took about an hour before I finally switched from thinking that my initial experiences with Second Life were a waste of time to actually finding them being productive in new ways. I was one of a 3D flurry of invited "VIPs" on Friday to enter an IBM pavilion inside Second Life. With my unique personage avatar seated (took me five minutes to figure out how to sit down) in the front row I read a chat sequence as IBM executives (some virtually knee-deep in the stage) told of how we're at the beginning of something big and Blue.

"Using such virtual environments, a company's best minds and communicators can reach far more people directly, rather than sitting in airports or viewed only remotely from a far-off podium. This is a killer application of evangelism, sales, and implementation support — and you never leave home."

Read Dana's entire blog post here.

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Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hannukah or Kwanzaa, we at ebizQ.net would like to wish you and all of your families the joy of health, happiness and professional success this holiday season and for the new year.

The ebizQ Team

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Interesting article today from K.C. Jones on CMP's Techweb, saying that blogging and community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Interesting, because we here at ebizQ have seen strong growth on all our collaborative channels, and we are constantly getting comments about our excellent bloggers and inquiries about how to join the ranks or contribute.

I think collaborative communities that support virtual conferences for real business reasons, like Second Life, are going to start replacing blogs, but I think blogs still serve a very important purpose for thought leadership in specialized industries like ours. I don't think that good blogs, and people who excel at the blogging medium, are going away anytime soon.

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Next week, IBM is debuting an SOA island in Second Life. If you don't know what Second Life is yet, read this, this or this, and get ready to have your mind blown. This is not just the future of technology, it's the future of commerce.

If you don't believe me, visit the site of the Reuters' Second Life reporter, Adam Pasnick, who spends all his time reporting on things that occur inside Second Life. Also, for a special ebizQ look, here's a screencast video of the virtual me trying to fly, and totally hitting my head on the ceiling! Nice to know that I can be a virtual klutz in addition to an actual klutz!

Get yourself an Avatar right now! And when you do, look around for ebizliz Bohm! That's me!

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Today it was announced that MetaMatrix' Enterprise was selected by the Defense Logistics Agency’s Integrated Data Environment (DLA IDE) program, which is just the latest United States Department of Defense (DoD) program to select the MetaMatrix suite of data-integration products to help implement their data strategy and transformation efforts. I spoke with Ed Fakler, Vice President, U.S. Federal Government Sales, MetaMatrix, to hear more about this interesting customer win.

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