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Do YOUR fellow parents know the following yet?

Need help with your taxes? Real life businesses thrive in Second Life

Do you need
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to do taxes?

And do you enjoy dancing?

And would you like to do both?

Enter H&R Block’s Second Life Island (yes, you heard me right!). To wit:

As a tax pro for H&R Block, Kathy Burlison has helped countless traditional customers. She’s also helped vampires, cartoon characters and a knight doing the tango in a full suit of armor….

As the tax deadline nears, H&R Block is serious about giving real-life advice to made-up characters.

Why?

Because those characters are controlled by real people, otherwise known as potential clients.

This is no digital dalliance. Last year Computer World magazine named H&R Block Island one of the eight most useful corporate sites within Second Life. The island, which has been up for more than two years, has eight tax offices, an auditorium, product pavilion and DJ playing pop songs in a nightclub, complete with lighted dance floor and disco ball …..MORE….

There is a plethora of businesses that are equally as cyber-savvy in Second Life, including

  • Reebok,
  • Bigpond
  • Cisco
  • Dell
  • Disney
  • Harvard Law School
  • IBM
  • BMW
  • Mazda
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Sears
  • Spring
  • Telus
  • Wells Fargo
  • Toyota

Talk about having a presence above and beyond in both real life and the virtual world that’s developing.

Hope you enjoy the above!

ThankYouVeryMuch,

Owlbert

ps - speaking about Tax Season:

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