A Decision Tree for Communication Tool Users

Dave Pollard's 'Communication Technologies -- A Decision Tree for Users' is worth taking a look at for people who don't care how it works - but just want it to work. It's interesting, but it's missing something. Another tool.

A virtual world.

But then... is a virtual world ready for that level of collaboration? Some people think so, some people don't. I'm not sold on either path yet. I've done a lot of cooperative discussion in SecondLife. While some people use it for altogether different things, such as entertainment, others are trying to use it for business. Still others are trying to do positive things in the world, and even still - others are considering how to use it in ways that aren't defined completely.

Where would a virtual world fit in such a communication tree? That's a question I don't know the answer to, but which is certainly worth asking.

Maybe the problem is that it's still a fledgling. But to go beyond that, what's needed? Better integration with the internet is what many people say - specifically Web 2.0. Maybe collaborative builds, a step beyond what Kitten Lulu and I spoke of - and which she is more knowledgeable of. Or training through [t:machinima], as Tao Takashi does.

What else? Something to sleep on.