The Ottawa Business Journal (or the OBJ as we Ottawaians will often call it) is a local publication focused on business in the Ottawa area. It featured an article on the growing use and even greater possibilities of virtual worlds in business applications.

Like Editor Jim Donnelly who wrote the article I would “prefer an old fashion beer and a handshake” in many circumstances, but in the modern business and government environment where team members can be separated by thousands of miles, these three dimensional applications can make a lot of sense…with the appropriate policies, procedures and security measures in place of course.

I recommend this short article for any public or private sector individual interested in how to help “far flung” teams work more closely together through this medium.