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IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups

The Verge

IRL’s groups and events can be accessed on its app or website. Do people want an app specifically for discovering events and messaging as a group? That’s the bet behind IRL, a young social network that has been quietly growing over the past year and just attracted an eye-popping amount of money to take on Facebook.

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Let’s meet! Virtually, in-person, or somewhere in between?

CIO Business Intelligence

Many formerly in-person events from team meetings to conferences transitioned to virtual events and many companies seem conflicted on if, when or how they can get everyone back to the office. So, will virtual events continue to thrive and, if so, can they deliver better experiences? Room to grow virtually.

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Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward

The Verge

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The report covers how these systems handle key social network elements like discoverability, moderation, and privacy, as well as how services based on them can scale up, interoperate, and make money.

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LinkedIn to launch audio events later this month

The Verge

LinkedIn is planning audio events | Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images. The live, Clubhouse-like audio feature LinkedIn confirmed it was working on last year will debut later this month in beta as part of the company’s new events platform, according to a company blog post.

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5G networks are blazing fast – charging needs to keep up

TM Forum

The hype around 5G has largely focused on network speed but communications service providers (CSPs) know that a different kind of speed is even more important: Speed of innovation. These include in-app ordering (84% say they plan to continue), home delivery (82%), shopping via social media platforms (80%), and more.

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The future of social media: Almost all commerce will become social

Trends in the Living Networks

Earlier this month Air New Zealand ran its second Social Media Breakfast in Auckland, with close to 1,000 people coming to see Teddy Goff , the Digital Director of Obama’s campaign, and myself speak. Below is a brief but nice highlights video of the event, including highlighted excerpts from my and Teddy’s keynotes.

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Networking tips for IT leaders: A guide to building connections

CIO Business Intelligence

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. I suffered from a crippling lack of self-worth.”

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