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Kumospace raises new cash to replace physical offices with virtual ones

TechCrunch

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. “ When COVID-19 hit, we scrambled like everyone else to go virtual. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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Hackathons vs Conference: Which One Works The Best for Blockchain Industry?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

One of the ways to disseminate information about the tech is via industry conferences which help Blockchain developers network with and learn from their peers. But, is a Blockchain conference enough to fulfill this goal of interaction, adoption, and learning? What is the best way to calculate the ROI from these conferences?

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The Engagement You’ll Find at Our Virtual Events

CIO

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Indeed, interaction is what makes a virtual summit a conference vs. a webinar. Text chat was different.

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Upstream aims to be the new home for your professional social life

TechCrunch

Last fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan , allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. “This is the place for your professional social life,” Taub said. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public.

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Twine raises $3.3M to add networking features to virtual events

TechCrunch

The team’s original idea was to help people who were missing out on social connections under Covid lockdowns find a way to meet others and chat online. And they saw the potential in online, which would sometimes deliver 4x or 5x the attendance of virtual, Coburn points out. The deal was reportedly for less than $50 million).

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React Norway Conference 2022

Xebia

This is definitely not a technical post (just a bit ) but a conference experience overview. Using embedding videos instead of static images, virtual reality, 3D showing off plenty of great examples and how it affects the developer experience showing an example of technical solution for each problem. I hope you enjoy it!

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Read AI raises $10M, creates virtual meeting dashboard to show you when you talk too much

TechCrunch

The company’s first product, Read Dashboard, is a dashboard for virtual meetings that leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing to measure engagement, performance and sentiment among participants. Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue. Read Dashboard.