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Facebook is Meta, But Does It Really Matter?

Jon Loomer

They’re betting everything on the “Metaverse” — a world where Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and social experiences collide. Our lives move into the virtual world. If someone is immersed in a Virtual World, how might advertising show up? Let me know in the comments below!

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. If I had the money and time, I think I would try to make investments in this kind of virtual worlds.

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6 Ways Emerging Technologies Are Set to Change the Use of Social Media

SocMed Sean

The question is whether social networks can bring the interactive features of their networks and overcome the isolation that virtual reality currently creates. This is the middle zone between our real and virtual worlds and superimposes computer-generated images (that are often taken from a virtual world) on to our real world.

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8 ways to deal with negative comments in online communities

Laurel Papworth

How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them? Well, every company does it differently, but let’s look at corporate vs personal voice when dealing with negative comments. Ignore the negative social media commenter. Ignore them?

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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

Waxing UnLyrical

Yet when we are all going to have to live, and work, and live, in a virtual world for the foreseeable future, not doing this is also not an option. While I didn’t intend for it to be an inadvertent lesson in “how to do a virtual event,” a Facebook Live Q&A I hosted a couple of weeks ago was, apparently, just that.

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Why Social Success is No Accident

Convince & Convert

Never forget that in almost every case, people experience your company in the “real world&# first, and then decide whether (or how much) to interact with you in the virtual world. Social media success is a byproduct of being a good company. Do you disagree?

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. This includes forms of online publishing and discussion, including blogs, wikis, file-sharing, user-generated video and audio, virtual worlds * and social networks. IBM policy is not to comment on rumors in any way. Skip to main content.