If your employer came to SL.

I would tell them "Dont waist your money goto Blue Mars or OpenSim instead less then 1/2 the cost" or "Use webex every computer in your office can run it SL needs a high end machine which 90% of office computers cant do."

AND I'd let them know about LLs stellar customer service (laughs)

O not to mention the bandwidth usage for SL is far to high and would get very expensive FAST!

The answer is "cheap simulation". Airlines have used simulators for years cause they are less expensive and safer than training on real airplanes. In SL you can build for hundreds of dollars instead of millions (at lower quality), so a lot more things make sense.

Examples: Disaster training, architectural mockups

Architectural mockups I can kinda see......but I'm sure their are better building for such a thing than SL and also SL doesn't alow me to uplad a cad file to generate a build

Simulations is a theory but in cases mentioned and coming to mind, police fire disaster etc. I really can't feel SL is an adequite enough simulation (don't worry ma'am we trained on how to clean up that bio hazard radiolical do hickey in second life)

Yeah, but as far as I know, those simulators actually WORK most of the time.

If I worked for a big company and they wanted me to use SL as part of my work, I'd be happy to give it a try. But I would use an alt. Of course there's always the risk that a company would have a naive attitude towards SL, adopt the wrong approach and find the experience fruitless.

Possibly the best use a lot of corporations could make of SL would be for internal company communications and displays, rather than having a virtual presence aimed at the general public.

Corporate alt for sure.

Agree with all this, you and I work for similar entities; for me, I can see doing conferencing, especially as we are now hooked up with other California counties by computer, that's new, in the past, each county ran solo. SL would be a great way to impart conference style information. I'd have no problem with Treasure doing it, except: If there was money involved, I'd want to keep all that seperate from Treasure, and, even though I do 'work' here, now, as Treasure, to me that stuff is a labour of love, and 'fun', so I wouldn't want rl work touching that, so yeah, would create an alt.

I would first try to talk them out of it. I just could not in good conscience recommend that they have any official presence here.

If they were persistent, I could create a company-specific avatar. I would insist on getting the same wage, however, which I'm quite certain would be a deal-breaker for them

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I'd want a "GenericFirstName CompanyLastName" alt, for sure.

I'd make an alt, not telling them about my main, and keep the two completely seperated, not even transfering an LM.

If that came to pass, I'd absolutely make a corporate alt. When I'm logged in as that alt I'm at work, and my friends and Partner will have to be content with the fact that they cannot IM me. Likewise if I'm logged in as RockAndRoll Michigan, I'm not at work, and I will not accept any IM's expecting me to do business unless they can call me in to the office. In which case if I do get called in to the office, as it were, legitimately, Rock would log out and the alt would log in again. Never never never never would Rock ever have any dealings with the business other than the possibility of being called to go to work.

I'd create a disposable alt and grief them all

Then I'd create a corporate alt even more outragous than my main.

Then I'd create a disposable alt and grief them all

"I felt a little foolish turning up to the board meeting in a Chuck Norris avatar, when the CEO arrived as a Red Dragon. But then again. Johnson from IT was some sort of R2D2, Fiona was up to her usual form, her sexy reptile domonatrix look would get her out of this months poor Transport department efficiency report. Thompson the new sales manager looked uneasy in his Noobie avatar sitting in the noticibly blackened and melted chair of his predesessor, this wasn't mentioned in the job interview and his first months figures weren't that good. But what the hell was going on with Peterson from Accounts with the Sexy Submissive PlayVixen Avatar?"

Corporate alt for me. Though if they first approached me *in world*, I'd be looking for a new job.

I cant make any more alts so i'd haveto do it with Jumpy Lane! they start droppin dollars id denoobfy them business tards no worries!

Somewhere in this range.

1) I won't be working for a corporation, but for a university as a professor.
2) I'd use my same avi, but make sure to let them know that I will only be available during certain hours for the university stuff, no exceptions.

I do some volunteer work in a professional capacity, and I do it as Iyoba because I DON'T want to pay the psychological costs of character separation.

I do a lot of newbie help, and I use all of Iyoba's knowledge and many of her group connections and landmarks.

In addition, I made Iyoba small, friendly, and nonthreatening. This was not with the volunteer gig in mind, but Iyoba is an "accessible avatar." Late this spring when it looked like I would be working the volunteer gig, I made Iyoba a couple of extra dashikis and some knee length dresses. She has a fairly decent professional wardrobe.

I do fend off the teleport requests when I work. My group affiliations and picks give me "a range" most of my colleagues can't match. As Iyoba I've done more traveling into the nonEnglish speaking parts of Second Life than most of them as well. This again is knowledge I'd hate to lose by adopting a new personna.

And as for my nonwork activities, why should any one care that I enjoy fast dancing at clubs and travel to Portuguese and Japanese sims and that I make clothes for my avie using GIMP and Loop Rez?

We all have one identity in real life. There are a few things we don't discuss. Why can't one handle work related activities at Second Life the same way?

If I got lucky enough to build for my employer in SL, I'd pitch in and not think about the pay or the rest. I'd want the experience in my work report and on my resume.

One reason it is much easier to keep "private" activities in RL private than it is in SL. There are so many ways in SL that one can be tracked, searched for, looked up, contacted, etc, that if you wish to keep some of your hobbies from being advertised to the Metaverse (tm) at large, you pretty much have to use an alt.

Unless, of course, they sold ferret food. Or food for whatever eats ferrets.

This past spring my employer approach me to attend an in world conference for state and local governments. I had created an alt some time ago who’s name is pretty much my RL name (phonetically) just for kicks but now I use him for a variety of activities here in SL associated with my work and other interests related to my profession. The municipality I work for now has a kiosk here in SL, along with many other communities, and maintaining this in world presence for my employer has the added benefit of providing a good enough excuse to have SL loaded on my office workstation. You know …. For work type stuff.

I also have an alt I was to initially use at Languagelab but put him away preferring to use DaQbet because there is nothing funnier then hearing people butcher his name in voice.

The last employer I had looked at 3D worlds way back when and built their own virtual world called Pixie Hollow.

Create an alt.

for me....doesn't matter if i was suppose to use an alt or use my own account. i get to play and work at the same time. I don't play or roleplay or attend any roleplaying group in SL, I am a scripter and developer. Fun in SL for me is to test Second Life...and I've been doing it.. since the beta stages. I can relax just by hanging out with my friends and chat. If I by doing so I get to promote RL business services... well... that's awesome

of course.. don't forget..about your RL.
you can't be couch potato... 24/7 on Second Life.. come on!

My employer IS in SL . . .

But I don't think they know I am!!

I am a laid off factory worker, so I don't see it happening lol. However to play along with your game here is my answer.

I would consider doing it if they paid me, or I did it on company time. If I did it on my time I might consider getting paid in lindens, maybe?.

Would I create an alt? Not sure, I would probably let the company make that decision. I am a guy playing a female avi in sl so I don't know if that would be an issue for them. If I represented the company I would probably use a male alt and my real name or a name the company wanted me to use.

It would also depend on what they wanted me to do in world and how much time they wanted me there. In all honesty though I can't think of a job I have done that would gain anything from having a presence in SL.

Maybe if you worked for a graphics design company or something.