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Archive: ThinkBalm in the news (2008-2009)

December 20, 2009 — Investment News, “No fuss, no muss, but forget about the freebies“
November 30, 2009 — KNDO/KNDU, “Hold your meetings in cyberspace“
November 4, 2009 — Forterra Systems press release, “Business continuity solution for organizations facing workplace disruption from the H1N1 flu pandemic“
October, 2009 — eContent Magazine, “The Immersive Enterprise” (subscription required for access to article)
September 22, 2009 — Teleplace press release, “Qwaq changes name to Teleplace, delivers Teleplace 3.0 for scalable enterprise collaboration“
July 22, 2009 — Providence Business News, “Five Questions with Erica D river“
June 25, 2009 — Information Week, “IBM builds 3D world for business meetings“
June 23, 2009 — Linux Insider, “The business case for virtual business, part I“
June 24, 2009 — IBM press release, “Made in IBM labs: secure, 3D meeting service now available with Lotus Sametime“
June 4, 2009 — Network World, “Immersive Internet technology is no video game” and CIO Magazine, “Immersive Internet technology is no video game“
May 29, 2009 — San Francisco Business Times, “Second Life’s Linden Lab sells virtual realities to businesses“
May 28, 2009 — ITWorld Canada, “Immersive Internet technology is no video game“
April 20, 2009 — Federal Computer Week, “Virtual learning gets second wind from Second Life“
Mar. 16, 2009 — Computerworld, “Future shock: the PC of 2019“
Nov. 18, 2008 — Computerworld Canada, “Are you ready for the Immersive Internet?“
Nov. 10, 2008 — Boston Globe, “Virtual business, for real?“
Nov. 1, 2008 — DM Review, “The Immersive Internet Increases Engagement While Reducing Costs“
Oct. 15, 2008 — NextGov, “Showing Results in Virtual Worlds“
Sept. 3, 2008 — eWeek, “IBM Sametime 3-D Brings Virtual Reality to Instant Messaging“
July 9, 2008 — CIO magazine, “Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers“
July 9, 2008 — eWeek, “Google Gives Virtual Reality a Second Life“

Archive: ThinkBalm in the blogosphere (2008-2009)

December 29, 2009 — Kapp Notes, “Round up of some virtual world year-end predictions“
December 24, 2009 — ProtonMedia blog, “If Forterra Systems and Metaplace have sparked a virtual world industry shakeout, the question is: Who’s next?“
November 30, 2009 — Technobabble 2.0, “Top analyst blogs“
November 13, 2009 — MellaniuM — Virtual Quantum Entanglement, “ThinkBalm goes web.alive“
November 13, 2009 — ProtonMedia blog: “Crossing the chasm, one implementation at a time: Sam and Erica Driver’s keynote from 3DTLC 2009” (includes video)
November 9, 2009 — Second Life blogs: Working Inworld, “Recap on the Second Life Enterprise launch and PR coverage“
October 30, 2009 — Glob: the Indusgeeks blog, “Siddharth Banerjee presenting on ‘Immersive Internet- Global Adoption Trends’ for India and surrounds on Nov 6, 8 am PST“
October 29, 2009 — DrYesha — Connecting real and virtual worlds, “Nov 6 8-9AM PDT: Yesha to participate at the ThinkBalm Innovation Community (virtual meeting)“
October 14, 2009 — Linden Lab’s Working Inworld blog, “The time for work avatars has arrived“
October 12, 2009 — MSearchGroove, “Google, Sony Ericsson & Nokia Interactive Advertising on Board for Netsize Guide 2010; Call for Exciting Education, Finance, Healthcare, Retail, Enterprise & Augmented Reality Case Studies“
September 30, 2009 — SDForum’s Virtual World SIG, “How to improve your vocabulary and increase virtual world adoption“
September 29, 2009 — ProtonMedia blog, “Ron Burns goes one on one with ThinkBalm’s Erica Driver“
September 23, 2009 — MaxPing, “Return on investment = proven success?“
September 23, 2009 — The Arch Network, “New ThinkBalm analyst report: Crossing the Chasm, One Implementation at a Time“
September 23, 2009 — The Virtual Edge Institute, “Two recent surveys of marketing professionals shed light on trends in virtual events“
September 16, 2009 — MixedRealities, “ThinkBalm’s Innovation Un-Lecture, applied for local small and medium sized companies“
August 30, 2009 — The Immersive Life, “Brainstorming immersively: Of streams, position, and coordination“
August 29, 2009 — Learn 4 Life, “Mapping what Education and Business can learn from each other on the Immersive Internet, Virtual Worlds and Social Media“
August 25, 2009 — Training Day by Karl Kapp, “Letter to your boss about virtual immersive environments“
August 24, 2009 — Walker Information’s Customer Focused Innovation blog, “One reason to engage on Twitter“
August 6, 2009 — Chris Bishop’s blog, “My secret sauce to cook up multiple careers“
August 5, 2009 — Virtual Worlds News, “Erica Driver and Sam Driver of ThinkBalm to deliver 3DTLC kickoff keynote“
July 27, 2009 — Hypergrid Business, “ThinkBalm hosts virtual worlds networking event“
July 26, 2009 — Jeff Barr’s blog, “Yes, I am still alive!“
July 12, 2009 — The Immersive Life, “Experientialization vs. visualization in immersive development“
July 9, 2009 — RINexus, “ThinkBalm: Immersed in the Immersive Internet“
July 6, 2009 — 3DTLC blog, “Event notice: ThinkBalm networking event“
June 26, 2009 — Virtual Speak (Visual Purple blog), “Return on investment=proven success?“
June 24, 2009 — MakeMyWorlds.com, “Will ‘Immersive Internet’ become the next buzz word?“
June 24, 2009 — Virtual World News, “The analysts are IN“
June 22, 2009 — Walker Information blog, “Second Life – a PowerPoint replacement“
June 5, 2009 – Virtual Worlds News, “ThinkBalm leads visualization tours“
June 5, 2009 – Mixed Realities, “Visualization as a next stage for corporate use of virtual worlds“
June 4, 2009 – Working Inworld, “Stroll through ThinkBalm’s garden while the data is fresh“
June 4, 2009 – Mixed Realities, “Virtual worlds as a place to sense the future“
May 26, 2009 – DIP’s Dispatches from the Imagination Age, “ThinkBalm Releases Immersive Internet Business Value Study“
May 26, 2009 – MaxPing, “ThinkBalm Immersive Internet Business Value Study“
May 25, 2009 — Virtual Worlds News, “Study: Reliance on Immersive Technologies on Rise“
April 25, 2009 — The Immersive Life, “Terminology tossed salad (3DTLC pt 1)”
April 9, 2009 — CyberTech News, “ThinkBalm to find out the business value of immersive technologies“
April 6, 2009 — New World Notes, “3D meter represents group opinion in Second Life“
April 4, 2009 — Learning in Tandem, “Researching the new“
April 3, 2009 — Second Life blog, “Exploring the business value of virtual worlds with ThinkBalm“
April 3, 2009 — Virtual Worlds News, “ThinkBalm conducting new study on business value of virtual worlds“
Mar. 19, 2009 — Virtual Worlds News, “UK Government’s ‘Indulgence’ in Second Life Shows Problems Of Perception“
Feb. 28, 2009 — Designing Digitally blog, “ThinkBalm Innovation Community Un-Lecture #3“
Feb. 28, 2009 — Learning in Tandem, “Virtually speaking“
Jan. 26, 2009 –The Geek Weekly blog, “Meet me in cyberspace“
Dec. 20, 2008 – Dusan Writer’s Metaverse, “ThinkBalm, The Immersive Internet, And Collaborative Culture“
Dec. 18, 2008 — Mindnumbing Thoughts, “Role Playing In Immersive Worlds“
Dec. 9, 2008 — Virtual Worlds News, “ThinkBalm Guest Post: How enterprises can use the Immersive Internet to avoid costs in 2009 and innovate beyond“
Dec. 5, 2008 — Nortel Project Chainsaw blog, “The Immersive Internet – A Look at ThinkBalm’s Paper – 1“
Dec. 4, 2008 — Mobitrends, “ThinkBalm Community Role Playing Session“
Dec. 2, 2008 — eHealth, “Immersive Internet“
Nov. 26, 2008 — Direct2Dell, “Lively’s Demise Won’t Derail Virtual World Adoption“
Nov. 21, 2008 — Learning Matters, “What is the Uber Web 2.0/3Di Mash Up for the Eduprise?“
Nov. 20, 2008 — ChiefTech blog, “Ingredients for brainstorming in Second Life“
Nov. 17, 2008 — Network World Blogs, “Another Internet revolution is coming“
Nov. 9, 2008 — The Immersive Life, “Mind Mapping During Virtual Brainstorms“
Nov. 4, 2008 — ChiefTech blog, “Erica Driver: Predicting the immersive internet“
Oct. 17, 2008 — b-eye-network, Richard Hackathorn’s blog, “Brainstorming virtually“
Oct. 15, 2008 — The Agile Mind, “Working Virtually“
Oct. 2, 2008 — Molecular Voices, “A Quick Survey of Digital Marketing Strategy Communities“
Sept. 29, 2008 — The Immersive Life, “Immersive Brainstorming: The Tool We Need“
Sept. 26, 2008 — Virtual Worlds News, “Prototyping in 3D And Virtual Worlds to Raise Funds“
Sept. 19, 2008 — SageCircle, “ThinkBalm – focused on the Immersive Internet“
Sept. 6, 2008 — The Immersive Life, “2 Weeks in the ThinkBalm Innovation Community“
Sept. 6, 2008 — Dusan Writer’s Metaverse blog, “Recruiters Peg Second Life“
Sept. 4, 2008 — Laura P. Thomas blog, “Conversations & Connections – Day 2 of VW08“
Aug. 15, 2008 — Recruiting in Second Life blog, “Targeting ‘Facebook audience’ in Second Life“
July 18, 2008 — Virtual Worlds News, “Virtual Events Cost Microsoft 1/3 of Physical“

Archive: press releases (2008)

August 22, 2008 – ”Independent IT Industry Analysts Launch ThinkBalm(tm) Innovation Community“

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