Posted by Madhavi Linden on blogs.secondlife.com:

In 2006, we launched the Second Life Solution Provider program to help enterprises, educational institutions, government organizations, non-profits, and individuals connect with the global community of companies and individuals skilled at developing projects and experiences in Second Life. Since then, the Solution Provider program has grown to include more than 250 organizations from around the world, offering a wide variety of products and services.

Over the last few years, we’ve seen many organizations begin to use Second Life as a work or learning environment by holding meetings, training sessions, and conferences inworld. To help them understand how to best take advantage of this new immersive technology platform, many organizations turn to Solution Providers to help them get started in Second Life. To make it easier for them to identify well-qualified Solution Providers among the more than 250 currently in the Solution Provider Directory, we’re pleased to today announce the new Gold Solution Provider Program.

The Gold Solution Provider Program is the first of its kind in the virtual worlds industry, reflecting the strength, longevity, and unique ability for users to create and own their content on the Second Life platform. The new Gold Program identifies exceptionally qualified Solution Providers with a high level of client satisfaction, a track record of developing successful Second Life projects, and demonstrated expertise working with real world organizations. Today, we are inducting 31 Gold Solution Providers into the program who comes from the United States, Europe and Asia (full list of members below). They have business backgrounds in areas ranging from design and web development to marketing agencies and training, and have developed projects for multinational corporations, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-profits.

Gold Program members provide many services and products to help enterprise customers effectively use Second Life for their business. Below is a small sample of the services they provide:

• Host and provide innovative training experiences for employees spread out across the world, saving travel time and expenses
  
• Design and create engaging spaces for mixed-reality meetings and classes enabling remote attendees to participate in real time
  
• Cultivate and manage vibrant communities around brand marketing efforts
  
• Organize events, contests, and other activities to offer non-profits a new venue for fundraising efforts
  
• Develop simulations for educators to recreate science experiments that would be cost-prohibitive and/or dangerous in a physical setting

Linden Lab is committed to supporting the successful use and experience of the Second Life platform for enterprise users. As part of this effort, Linden Lab will work closely with Gold Solution Providers to better understand the needs of their clients. We will also continue to review and add new Gold Solution Providers to the program, to continue to expand the pool of expertise available to organizations seeking to understand, explore, develop, and incorporate Second Life into their business or educational activities.

Read More here.

Comments

Add New RSS

Write comment
Name:
Email:	do not notifynotify
Title:
	Please input the anti-spam code that you can read in the image.

Powered by !JoomlaComment 4.0alpha

3.25 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."