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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

Waxing UnLyrical

I’ve been working virtually, at least in part, since 2006. I’m well used to webinars, virtual events, virtual happy hours, virtual younameits and digital whatchamacallits , both as a participant as well as an organizer, for clients as well as my own business and educational efforts. What to do?!

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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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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Another, similar example is virtual reality. In 2006 Second Life was set to be the next big thing. Now more affordable technology exists to make virtual worlds even more immersive than Second Life ever was thanks to products like Oculus Rift. Facebook’s relationship with A.I.

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They understand that the boundaries of the “human world&# have not disappeared in the virtual world. Just because I choose to reach out to you, comment on your blog post, follow you on Twitter, become your Facebook friend, or join your LinkedIn group, it was a desire for me to possibly get to know you in the future.

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Friday Fun: For the Heart, Head & Soul

Diva Marketing Blog

Friday Fun is Diva Marketing's virtual happy hour from cosmos to Jack to lemonade. Too many wonderful things happening in the virtual world not to pass along from fun contests to help non profit causes to quirky ways to grow your business. If nothing else their Facebook invite page sure looks like it will be good networking!

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

71% of companies now have a presence on Facebook. Dan Nelms dives into a Comscore report which found that although Facebook engagement is increasing (the average time spent on the site per user per month increased from 4.6 Twitter, Facebook And LinkedIn: Age, Ethnicity And Gender Of The Major Social Networks [STUDY] by All Twitter.

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In Memory of My Grandpa David, a Wonderful Man Âğ Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are just some of those contributions: While I got married in March of 2005 (this photo was taken at our wedding), we delayed our honeymoon until December 2006. And your own reminding again adds a human touch to our “virtual&# world. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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