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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

We’ve seen the growth of events platforms, new social/spatial video environments, live commerce, live classes, fitness and workout applications, and a huge amount of experimentation in education and tutoring, just to name a few.”. “In In the future, video calls will not look like Zoom, and they will be powered by Daily,” she added.

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

Social influence. Social influence is something heavily used in games to increase engagement. Some games allow you to earn achievements and share them on social media. Secondly, by earning badges or achievements which people share on (internal) social platforms, it becomes visible who the go-to persons are on a particular topic.

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Enhancing Domain-Driven Design Through Collaborative Systems Thinking

Xebia

The Theory U process provides a framework for understanding and facilitating change in individuals, organizations, and social systems. For that, I’d like to explore the work of Otto Scharmer.

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Changing how we change

Xebia

These groups might mirror people’s roles – accounting, HR, sales, etc – or could be informal, reflecting friendships and other social connections. Petri dishes are used as an apt analogy for small groups within an organization. Just like a petri dish used in a science lab, these small groups are a prime place for cultivating beliefs. .

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

People often end up pairing when there’s a need, or a desire for social contact, and sometimes these turn into huge group sessions that last for hours when nobody watches time , with everybody doing their thing and working almost as if we were sitting right next to each other. I love all of our social Slack rooms.

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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?

Honeycomb

For me, it’s the emphasis on the social aspects of engineering, despite this being a very engineering and product-driven company. At Honeycomb, our organization takes so much care to learn from the technical and social aspects of incidents, and to use those insights to level-up everyone’s understanding. At Honeycomb?

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. A framing of systems as being both social and technical ( sociotechnical! ) Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on. is pivotal.