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Polywork gets $3.5M to blend professional and social networking

TechCrunch

That’s the premise underpinning Polywork , a new professional social network founded by Lystable/Kalo founder, Peter Johnson. In short, Polywork sums to a Twitter-style social feed where professionals can post updates about what they’re up to (in work and, if they like, in life too). It’s announcing a $3.5

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Revel raises $7.8M to become the Instagram and Robinhood of NFT platforms

TechCrunch

Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. Revel blends them both, helping consumers build a “portfolio of media [and] of the people they collect,” Sideman said. (As Revel is a cross between a social network and a marketplace.

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8 Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities: The 2011 Edition

Forum One

Our clients are planning, designing, and launching online professional networks of all shapes and sizes to reach, engage, and inform external stakeholders. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform.

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Eight Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities - 2011 Edition

Forum One

Our clients are planning, designing, and launching online professional networks of all shapes and sizes to reach, engage, and inform external stakeholders. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform.

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Zebra raises $1.1M in a pre-seed round for messaging that pairs photos with voice chat

TechCrunch

For now Zebra is a two-person team consisting of CEO Dennis Gecaj, a product designer based in Berlin and Amer Shahnawaz, Zebra’s Head of Engineering, who previously worked on Snap Maps at Snapchat. Gecaj sees voice-based social networking as a much richer alternative to text-dominant platforms.

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Americana’s chip turns physical objects into NFTs

TechCrunch

Americana Technologies , a startup founded early last year by designer Jake Frey, allows brands and creators to turn physical items such as streetwear, collectibles, cars and artworks into NFTs. NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet. Americana just raised $6.9

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Joe Solomon, Guest Post: What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. It also seems designed to work with any issue-focused community (not just climate change). Does your community address local issues?

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