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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. It’s certainly true that home and work have never been so blended as now, given the pandemic-fuelled remote work boom. Life is complicated and so — increasingly — is work-life.

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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

It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. The BuddyPress plug-in takes it further and provides many of the common social networking features. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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

Forum One

It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. The BuddyPress plug-in takes it further and provides many of the common social networking features. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. But the idea of doing this through your online social networks has become normalized in the last few years as online social networks have become intertwined with our lives.

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

TechCrunch

. “It’s no secret that we are in the midst of an audio revolution, one that has ushered in a series of new audio-first social platforms and content vehicles,” Ohanian said, noting that Zebra’s unique blend of photos and voice is what caught his eye.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day. Does everyone in your nonprofit participate in social networks including the board? What are the benefits and challenges?

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