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  'Virtual watercooler' makes workplace more fun - CNN.com 

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  Story Highlights Beehive is an online portal for employees to describe their expertise, and to connect 27,000 IBMers using Beehive can post pictures, video and one-sentence updates Including a dose of ... Facebook and MySpace "can make work suck less" Now Intel is exploring whether virtual-world software will help employees collaborate Next Article in Technology » OK, so those days aren't gone yet. But as big companies parcel Information Age work to people in widely dispersed locations, it's getting harder for colleagues to develop the camaraderie that comes from being in the same place. Beyond making work less fun, feeling disconnected from comrades might be a drag on productivity. Now technology researchers are trying to replicate old-fashioned office interactions by transforming everyday business software for the new era of work. The historically dry-as-sawdust products are borrowing elements from video games and social-networking Web sites. You can tell just from looking at the Beehive   [More...] [Less...]

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