If Second Life Is Over, Someone Needs To Tell Cisco (CSCO)

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chambers-avatar.jpgConventional wisdom is that Second Life is an overhyped ghost town that's wasted many of corporate America's marketing dollars. But no one seems to have told the folks at Cisco (CSCO), which has maintained a steady presence in Linden Lab's (SAI #11) virtual world.

Coming up next week: A series of events it's holding in tandem with its annual Cisco Live developers conference. As a capper, company CEO John Chambers will be making an appearance (in avatar form) to take questions inside the virtual world.

Gimmicky? Sure. Dumb? No. There are plenty of brands that don't really need to be on Second Life, because  Second Life's userbase consists of nerds (we say this lovingly.) But for a company like Cisco, Second Life's tech-loving users are a rich pool of potential developers and wannabe Cisco certified engineers. Think of it as Axe body spray promoting a Spring Break event -- where everyone is quiet and no one is drunk.



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Nicholas Molnar (URL) said:
Cisco is big on SL because virtual worlds are a huge potential market for them. They want to help the market grow, however they can, so they can sell virtual world makers expensive networking gear next year. That simple.

Dael Ra said:
It's a ghost town for corporates who thought that just because their name was big in the real world it would actually mean something to those that live/play/work in Second Life.

The fact that 99% did very little to actually get involved with the social, creative and educational side of the 'game' just goes to prove how much the marketers really never grasped the essence of SL.

Frankly, the place is much better now without them.

Cisco, IBM, and a lot of other 'serious' tech companies have long seen their involvement way beyond just a simple commercial presence.

SL has never been the right place to market real world products or services but more and more companies and educational establishments are realising it's a great place to recruit, inspire, communicate and educate.

Now that the marketting frenzy and hype has died down I see Second Life expanding at a modest but steady rate.

Brian Regan (URL) said:
I suggest you remove your glasses that sees things from a marketing perspective and look at it as a forum they use to have business meetings. The best way to think of it is to look at these two statements in a similar fashion.

Cisco has a series of meetings in Second Life to discuss various business related issues.

Cisco has a series of meetings using BRAND A web conferencing tool to discuss various business related issues.

Autumn Truong said:
Thanks for sharing this, Eric. We are looking forward to seeing John Chambers speak in Second Life. See you there as well!

jonathan Present (URL) said:
While it is not requisite that many large companies have a presence, Cisco recognizes the market opportunities at hand. In addition to endorsing conferencing and Telepresence, driving bandwidth requirements through new applications, they have to promote the Linksys consumer brand of products...

Starr Sonic (URL) said:
Please note that the appearance of John Chambers in Second Life will be broadcast live on SLCN.TV at 11am PDT on Tuesday (www.slcn.tv).
In addition there will also be broadcasts of the Cisco TechChats at 12pm PDT on Tuesday and 10.30am PDT on Wednesday and Thursday.
You can view the previous Cisco TechChat broadcast on SLCN.TV at http://www.slcn.tv/cisco-techchat-internet-things

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