CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2022

Two years ago, the consulting giant started shipping many of its recruits virtual reality headsets instead. At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We More business applications are on the way. Next step: the office.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” When GeekWire visited the company’s office and tested Rec Room in 2017, the startup was focused on virtual reality. Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Rooom has raised $7 million to take 3D virtual events a step closer to the metaverse -- or at least a lot more entertaining than Zoom calls. Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

And GeekWire is here to recognize and celebrate a select few of these groups through our Geeks Give Back Award. That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

But on Sunday he wound up for a different sport as the Microsoft CEO threw out the virtual first first pitch for the Seattle Mariners before the team’s game against the San Diego Padres. Former Mariners catcher Dave Valle joined Nadella for the socially distanced toss — who needs six feet when you can go with 60 feet, 6 inches?

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2020

Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. Hi, welcome to The Virtual Excellence Show. We have a Facebook group, building conversation there.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

The half-day program runs for four weeks in the summer and is virtual so that it can reach a larger geographical area, including rural areas of Washington state. It works with partners to provide conflict mitigation, behavioral support and other social services for renters.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 15, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Fan Groups, an improved Facebook Groups experience for creators and their communities on Facebook Gaming. Gaming Fan Groups will help Facebook’s streamers, dubbed Facebook Gaming creators, and their fans develop deeper… Read More.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. It seems, instead, that they shook their die and rolled a virtual 20.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More than two years and a company rebrand later, Meta is finally opening up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds. Originally just called Horizon, it requires a Facebook account and lets you hang out with up to 20 people at a time in a virtual space. Now we can open up and say we have interesting things that people can do”.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

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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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

And she’s one of 8,000 interns that Amazon has taken on this summer around the world, hosting all of them virtually for the first time. “Funny enough, we wanted to explore virtual internships as we continue to grow and scale,” Kim said. Albert Kim. LinkedIn Photo). “This was a great forcing function for us.”

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

The social, lovable robot went viral on Twitter last March when it performed a jaunty dance after telling owners, “The servers out there that let me do what I do will be turned off soon.” That meant its ability to perform many social interactions would wind down on an undefined date, effectively killing Jibo.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Eight years after they left Zulily to concentrate full time on their social platform for gamers, husband and wife co-founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine are growing Seattle-based Game Jolt and raising new funding. million last week led by Acequia Capital, with Madrona Venture Group, Graph Ventures, and Inventures Collective also investing.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 12, 2021

. “We’re big believers in social play,” Fasulo, Starform’s CEO, said in an interview with GeekWire. In groups that are highly attuned and sensitive to each other, ideas can flow and grow.”

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

On a recent SecureWorld Sessions podcast episode, Social Engineering: Hacking Humans , host Bruce Sussman spoke with Christopher Hadnagy, an entrepreneur and author of five books about social engineering and hacking the human. 1 How do you define social engineering?

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Venture Beast

MAY 21, 2021

Roomkey hopes to carve out its own slice of the metaverse with an avatar-driven online event world for groups smaller than 40 people. Read More.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 20, 2020

The group currently works in 782 high schools across the country and figures from 2018 show that the students they met with were 18 percent more likely to apply to a college or university and 19 percent more likely to get in. “It’s impossible to list all the ways that COVID-19 has upended America’s education system,” Gates said.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is the spectator view for fans watching NBA games “courtside” in Microsoft Teams: the live stream on one side, and your virtual cheering section on the other. My big takeaway: Microsoft and the NBA are on to something with their new tech-fueled virtual fan experience. Look out for me in the virtual stands!!!

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Coatue Management led the latest round, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Madrona Venture Group. Rec Room is among of group of community-based social gaming and entertainment apps that rely on user-generated content and have seen huge upticks in growth during the pandemic.

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GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2023

The company shifted to virtual meetings with the onset of the pandemic. Some environmental and social groups appear to have been emboldened by those close calls. Amazon’s meeting will be held virtually again this year, at 9 a.m. Shareholders voted down all 15 resolutions last year. Pacific on Wednesday, May 24.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Another virtual reality gaming experience is opening shop in the Seattle region. Each holodeck enables groups of up to six players to have a shared experience, exploring virtual worlds and relying on each other to succeed in games designed to be social experiences. (Sandbox VR Photo). Canada, Europe and Asia.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This past weekend marked the first Sunday of the 2021 NFL season, and while it was full of exciting highlights, one may have towered over them all: the Carolina Panthers’ viral video of a giant virtual panther leaping around Bank of America Stadium. Those were applied to prevent a mirroring effect, a PR rep for The Famous Group said.).

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

An Amazon employee group has taken some hits recently, but vows to keep fighting for members concerned about the company’s impact on the environment and people of color. The resolution received only 6% approval at the May 27 virtual meeting. GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg). The organization is undeterred.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2022

Right now, the metaverse is essentially an undefined amalgam of technologies and concepts including but not limited to augmented reality (AR), avatars, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, extended reality (ER), mixed reality (MR), NFTs (non-fungible tokens), virtual reality (VR), and Web3. Follow the money. Get on the train.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 29, 2024

Digital Platforms as Collaborative Spaces Interactive Multimedia Tools Video-Based Collaboration Cloud-Based Collaborative Editing Cross-Disciplinary Project Work Virtual Study Groups Inclusive Learning through Technology IV. How can Technology Teach K12 Students the Art of Collaboration? Here are some of the benefits listed below: 1.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 29, 2024

Digital Platforms as Collaborative Spaces Interactive Multimedia Tools Video-Based Collaboration Cloud-Based Collaborative Editing Cross-Disciplinary Project Work Virtual Study Groups Inclusive Learning through Technology IV. How can Technology Teach K12 Students the Art of Collaboration? Here are some of the benefits listed below: 1.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 31, 2010

Melcrum recently released a report on How to use social media to solve critical communication issues , with as usual some great case studies and many practical insights. I was asked to write the closing section in the report, on The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications. Email use will be eroded by social media.

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TM Forum

MARCH 7, 2022

The virtual Accelerate event gathered members from 256 companies, including 110 communications service providers. TM Forum’s CEM working group numbers 100+ company members. The working group is currently looking to develop a more in-depth CEM survey and extend it to a larger audience. set of tools and best practices.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Seattle-based FFA just wrapped up a virtual version of its eight-week Ready Set Raise program, which requires each company to have a female or non-binary CEO. FFA initially started as a private Facebook group of women who wanted to help support female founders and entrepreneurs. based venture capital firm Trilogy Equity Partners.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 20, 2012

As such, we certainly need to apply what is being learned in the field of gamification, particularly its social aspects, to see how it can help positively change behaviors. Health Week Plan reports that: If UnitedHealth Group had its way, all of its members would own a Microsoft Xbox video game system and would use it every day.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 11, 2011

I’m at the launch meeting of the social media community of practice set up by Institute of Public Administration NSW (IPAA). At the conference I wrote about the case study of Queensland Police , which is a great example of government bodies creating value through social media. Here are a few live notes from the event. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If you’re skeptical about dipping your enterprise’s virtual toes into a metaverse, rightfully so. While some investors and developers pulled back , others kept forging ahead, developing chips for augmented and virtual reality, trialing advertising through augmented reality, and “stockpiling gaming content,” according to CBInsights.

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Ranking Social Media. For some reason people have decided to apply this sort of ranking to social media. The problem with applying this commonly used metric is that in social media, there isnâ??t Parasites, virtual users created solely to artificially inflate follower count. A quick and dirty study on Social Media.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Humans are deeply social animals. For many people it is their primary place for social interaction. Arguably the main reason organizations will still exist indefinitely as they compete with distributed ventures in the economy of individuals is the degree of trust you build from extended working and socializing with colleagues.

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But in the classroom, the instructor would guide them and engage in practical learning with experiments, group discussions etc. And for this, teachers use various means such as augmented reality, interactive eBooks , or conduct pop quizzes, give group assignments. Students usually spend a lot of time on social media.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.

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