What was different about this session from other sessions at the annual meeting was that it was held simultaneously in Second Life and the hotel in Chicago.  They also had avatars in Second Life in the meeting room there. The other panelist joined the meeting via Second Life with his avatar. At the Academy of Management meeting earlier this month, I had the pleasure of assisting Dr. Ulrike Schultze in a session that she coordinated.

I just returned from the Academy of Management conference in Chicago where I presented a paper that Surinder and I wrote with Professor Rui Huang . Tags: Research Virtual Worlds Collaboration technology avatar collaboration communication identity instant messaging leadership relationships satisfaction Second Life virtual team virtual teams virtual world virtual world Our paper was an extension of the research we have been doing on leadership in virtual worlds that I wrote about previously . This paper focused on how one’s online identity may affect virtual team member

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