It's especially nice for CoLearning. But using Nicenet for commercial purposes might not be so nice. Everything in Nicenet is offered free for public use, and Nicenet makes no profits from your participation. Since it's not so nice to take commercial advantage of such a worthwhile public service, we won't focus on its business use. On the other hand, as a virtual classroom, and especially as a tool for CoLearning , Nicenet is really, really nice.
Students can even elect to add themselves to the class anonymously.
All in all, Nicenet clearly demonstrates that in the virtual world the distinction between technologies that support learning together and those that support working together is pretty much arbitrary. There is a valuable lesson in this. And a very nice one. In a special section on Virtual Teams , the Management Roundtable features three articles of interest to any CoWorking enterprise. The trick is to collocate the people you can naturally bring together and carefully map processes and design communication links with the extended virtual team.