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Discord has turned into a virtual trade floor with memes, stonks, and chaos

The Verge

Getting inside offers a surreal look at an emerging virtual trade floor where people are yelling at each other to invest into GameStop or AMC stocks. Dozens of people join the server every second, and one channel has a stream of memes that looks like pure chaos. audio meme. Welcome to the world of r/WallStreetBets.

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ChatGPT Starts Blocking Studio Ghibli-Style Images After Trend Goes Viral

Futurism

Right after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4o image generation capabilities , tech bros flooded the internet with AI-made cartoons and memes imitating the style of the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. The wave of ersatz Ghibli art was inescapable in AI spheres. One particularly viral example depicted JFK's assassination.

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Virtual Meeting Check-Ins & Icebreakers During A Pandemic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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Dogecoin is now the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap

TechSpot

The virtual currency, which utilizes the face of a Shiba Inu hunting dog from the “Doge” meme as its logo, is trading at $0.67 as of writing. That doesn’t seem like a big deal at face value, but what’s important to note here is the sheer number of coins in.

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3 More Strategies + 6 New Tips To Boost Generosity

Bloomerang

Consider how to bring people together, virtually or on site. TIP 10: Consider creating activities that engage people’s passions : Cool memes or videos they’ll want to share with their networks; surveys; online quizzes; petitions and advocacy initiatives; conference calls; networking events, volunteer activities and more.

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Niantic and a crypto debit card company made an AR game where you earn Bitcoin

The Verge

Have you ever played Pokémon Go and thought, “I wish this game let you earn small amounts of Bitcoin by engaging with internet finance memes and a cryptocurrency debit card system?” Reeves says the goal is partly to make a virtual currency feel real by creating an AR setting for it. If so, I don’t believe you, but I have good news.

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Associations are successfully implementing new AMS systems – even in a virtual world

Nimble AMS

But, realizing they needed to move forward with a new AMS, they embraced the virtual go-live environment and found that it turned out very well. They continuously staffed it so that the client’s team could “step” in and out of the meeting at any time to talk (virtually) face-to-face with a Nimble AMS team member as questions popped up.