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Don’t ignore virtual reality as you plan the future workplace

CIO Business Intelligence

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. The Zoom fatigue factor.

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Sharing my life story from a virtual perspective

Trends in the Living Networks

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. So I thought it’d be worth sharing my story of the virtual.

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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. One of the excerpts shown from my keynote was on the rise of social commerce. Virtually every aspect of how we buy will be social.

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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

GeekWire

Prior to Equifax, Anderson was executive vice president of cards and retails services at Wells Fargo. F5 Networks appointed Elizabeth Buse to its board of directors. Former Rover and Cheezburger CTO Scott Porad is now vice president of engineering at Seattle virtual healthcare startup 98point6. Maria Karaivanova. Madrona Photo).

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Meet the 8 startups that just pitched at a virtual Demo Night hosted by Female Founders Alliance

GeekWire

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 is a social purpose corporation , a type of profit corporation the state of Washington created in 2012, and is funded primarily through corporate partners.

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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Open up your networks. Johnson was in Seattle this week to host a networking and pitch event called Creating Conscious Collisions , which aims to create environments where entrepreneurs, investors, allies, and policymakers can connect. Reetu Gupta.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter!

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