If we all concede that the world is getting smaller and everyone’s riding the info-train due to technology and the World wide web, then it’d be no surprise that some time soon, some witty corporate person would mandate online behaviour guidelines. SURPIRSE!
Bill Goodwin, in his article at ComputerWeekly.com, reported the idea of an IT analyst guy named Gartner that it’s time to regulate avatars and make them look profesisonal. Basically, since avatars are online representations of people, using avatars in workplaces would make your online self professional and more convincing. For more information, click this!
I actually like the idea of having a formal online self. In essence, this will help employees to manage their personal and professional lives. More to that, it’s also good as a reputation management for employees and employers (therefore, for the whole company!). Even avatars are accepted when having online conferences and meetings with international partners, so it’s really good to make a professional avatar of yourself?
What do you think? Will this easily apply to Philippine companies–as these companies are proliferated with online employees?
