Malcolm Gladwell, Best Selling Author of Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and his latest book, What the Dog Saw, will be teleporting LIVE from New York into Mingleverse for an exclusive Question & Answer session.
The session will be open to 25 participants who will be able to ask questions during the 1 hour mingle. There will also be an online networking opportunity after the mingle.
Date: January 26th, 2010
Time: 5pm PST
Sign-Up: http://www.f5-expo.com/launch-party
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Money For Mingling, Step By Step
You can easily turn a group mingle and your passion to talk to or teach others into extra money. Sharing information in increasingly popular mingles are a compelling value not just for attendees but for the organizer as well. Here is some food for thought.
Think about a hot topic that attracts broad interest. Think H1N1, any type of education, or a general topic you are passionate about – perhaps cooking? Then start a global interest group using mingle-groups.
Talk about your group! Publicity is big! Twitter it, facebook it, blog it, digg it, run it on. Use Craigslist or any other local group. Publish a brief press release and send it to web publications. You can even add on to a meetup.com group. Make the group public on Mingleverse and schedule weekly mingles.
Know your value! If you are an expert and know other experts, don’t be modest. Make sure it is known that you are bringing together an exciting group of people on weekly basis from all over the world. Not every group member needs to attend every mingle just the ones they are interested in.
Build your audience. Set a yearly fee of let’s say $25 and charge for the membership upon entering the first mingle.
Schedule weekly mingles for different topics. Be the expert in your topic. Bring in more experts. One or two mingles per week is a good meeting frequency.
Charge extra for attending individual mingles of choice, such as $10 to make sure you get a commitment of attending (like a live talk show).
If you can get many people interested, you have a continuous base revenue stream and you are now on top of the silo of that group. You are carrying mindshare.
Group owners can be an affiliate and will be compensated automatically (via code) if they are responsible for selling members a MingleRoom.
Ron Stevens
Think about a hot topic that attracts broad interest. Think H1N1, any type of education, or a general topic you are passionate about – perhaps cooking? Then start a global interest group using mingle-groups.
Talk about your group! Publicity is big! Twitter it, facebook it, blog it, digg it, run it on. Use Craigslist or any other local group. Publish a brief press release and send it to web publications. You can even add on to a meetup.com group. Make the group public on Mingleverse and schedule weekly mingles.
Know your value! If you are an expert and know other experts, don’t be modest. Make sure it is known that you are bringing together an exciting group of people on weekly basis from all over the world. Not every group member needs to attend every mingle just the ones they are interested in.
Build your audience. Set a yearly fee of let’s say $25 and charge for the membership upon entering the first mingle.
Schedule weekly mingles for different topics. Be the expert in your topic. Bring in more experts. One or two mingles per week is a good meeting frequency.
Charge extra for attending individual mingles of choice, such as $10 to make sure you get a commitment of attending (like a live talk show).
If you can get many people interested, you have a continuous base revenue stream and you are now on top of the silo of that group. You are carrying mindshare.
Group owners can be an affiliate and will be compensated automatically (via code) if they are responsible for selling members a MingleRoom.
Ron Stevens
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Mingleverse Nominated For Outstanding Telecom Startup Award!
We are extremely proud to announce that Mingleverse has been nominated to receive the SPIFFY Award 2010 that recognizes innovation and opportunity among telecom startups. Mingleverse has been selected from more than 100 companies as a nominee for the Core Award for Best Fixed Telecom Opportunity that honors “the best investment opportunity within the fixed telecom sector”.
The SPIFFY Awards are presented by the Telecom Council’s Service Provider Forum (SPIF) and are considered to be the Oscars of the telecom industry by rewarding ideas, relevance, and traction that most appeal to communication service providers from around the globe.
The award ceremony will be held on February 25 at the Aquarius Theater in Palo Alto, California. The event is open to members, the press and the general public.
Keep your fingers crossed!
The SPIFFY Awards are presented by the Telecom Council’s Service Provider Forum (SPIF) and are considered to be the Oscars of the telecom industry by rewarding ideas, relevance, and traction that most appeal to communication service providers from around the globe.
The award ceremony will be held on February 25 at the Aquarius Theater in Palo Alto, California. The event is open to members, the press and the general public.
Keep your fingers crossed!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Videocommunication a Big Deal at CES
The Consumer Electronics Show is kicking off in Las Vegas today, with much more fanfare than in previous years when many of us thought that CES would follow the fate of Comdex. Judging by the news that has begun trickling in, we will see lots of announcements of TVs that are 3D enabled and/or run web applications. If you have been waiting for the Internet to make a huge impact on your living room, 2010 will be it.
The other big emerging topic is video communication and video conferencing. LG says videoconferencing will go HD this year. Panasonic and Cisco are pushing video as a new killer app, HP bets on online collaboration and IBM is planning a videoconferencing service with some partners like Polycom. It’s a catch-up game with Skype, which is first making its way onto TVs. Communicating via your TV? Yup, via your TV. It would have been an unthinkable pitch just a few years ago. Now we are seeing the family room evolve from an entertainment to an entertainment and communication hub of the home.
Mingleverse has already shown that communication is not just about voice anymore, it is more and more about merging audio with visuals, which, in turn, will change the way we communicate. Communication will turn into collaboration in the workplace and deeper connections between family members and friends who live apart from each other. Visuals will shape the way we communicate in the future. Seeing your friends, family or coworkers in an environment that looks and feels like the real world, the possibility to share not just static media, but rich applications and the integration of live video is a truly fascinating trend.
The other big emerging topic is video communication and video conferencing. LG says videoconferencing will go HD this year. Panasonic and Cisco are pushing video as a new killer app, HP bets on online collaboration and IBM is planning a videoconferencing service with some partners like Polycom. It’s a catch-up game with Skype, which is first making its way onto TVs. Communicating via your TV? Yup, via your TV. It would have been an unthinkable pitch just a few years ago. Now we are seeing the family room evolve from an entertainment to an entertainment and communication hub of the home.
Mingleverse has already shown that communication is not just about voice anymore, it is more and more about merging audio with visuals, which, in turn, will change the way we communicate. Communication will turn into collaboration in the workplace and deeper connections between family members and friends who live apart from each other. Visuals will shape the way we communicate in the future. Seeing your friends, family or coworkers in an environment that looks and feels like the real world, the possibility to share not just static media, but rich applications and the integration of live video is a truly fascinating trend.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Collaboration Online A Top Tech Priority for 2010
Silicon.com runs an article via Business Week describing collaboration technology as a trend CFOs should consider more seriously in 2010. Why? According to Silicon.com and analysts from Ovum, the cost of physical meetings is increasingly difficult to justify; technology that cuts travel expenses and travel time via videoconferencing should be much more prominent by the end of the year as a result.
We at Mingleverse tend to agree and believe that a meeting of minds vs a meeting of bodies will become much more important. 'Being there' will have an entirely new meaning. Imagine the money and time that can be saved by meeting online, while having capabilities that are taken from the real life – 3D audio, life-like faces, video sharing, presentation sharing. On the Internet, it does not get much more personal than that.
Collaboration online is taking a notably faster pace these days. Other publication that focused this trend include The Nation, Fox Business and SearchITChannel.
We at Mingleverse tend to agree and believe that a meeting of minds vs a meeting of bodies will become much more important. 'Being there' will have an entirely new meaning. Imagine the money and time that can be saved by meeting online, while having capabilities that are taken from the real life – 3D audio, life-like faces, video sharing, presentation sharing. On the Internet, it does not get much more personal than that.
Collaboration online is taking a notably faster pace these days. Other publication that focused this trend include The Nation, Fox Business and SearchITChannel.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Sharing Traditions Across Geographic Distances
Telepresence is a big buzz word this year. A highlight of this new trend is uniting people in an audiovisual way who otherwise would be limited to Skype or the good old phone. New Year’s Eve made me think how far telepresence will be able to take us and how we will be using this technology to eliminate geographic distances.
It took a few minutes to get my mom adjusted to Mingleverse, but sharing the New Year between my family in Germany and my family and friends in Chicago was a breathtaking experience. The live video sharing was a big hit - believe it or not my family had no idea about the Balldrop in New York and there is some confusion why a crystal ball symbolizes the arrival of the new year.
On the other hand, I finally was able to introduce some of our German traditions such as the traditional video of “Dinner for One”, a funny sketch that airs in many European countries on New Year’s Eve. (some say British humor hasn’t aged well in the past four decades and it really isn’t that funny. It’s on YouTube, of course, and you can watch it here.”)
A life changing New Year’s Eve. Exciting!
It took a few minutes to get my mom adjusted to Mingleverse, but sharing the New Year between my family in Germany and my family and friends in Chicago was a breathtaking experience. The live video sharing was a big hit - believe it or not my family had no idea about the Balldrop in New York and there is some confusion why a crystal ball symbolizes the arrival of the new year.
On the other hand, I finally was able to introduce some of our German traditions such as the traditional video of “Dinner for One”, a funny sketch that airs in many European countries on New Year’s Eve. (some say British humor hasn’t aged well in the past four decades and it really isn’t that funny. It’s on YouTube, of course, and you can watch it here.”)
A life changing New Year’s Eve. Exciting!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Ringing In The New Year, Mingleverse Style
I haven’t celebrated New Year’s Eve with my parents in 11 years. There’s a time when you are not especially eager to do that every year anyway, but I somewhat miss my family. I left my home country in 1998 and made the U.S. my new home.
My parents and my family here were never able to celebrate Christmas or New Year’s Eve together. This year, we will try to bridge the gap for the first time.
We decided to use Mingleverse to connect Munich with Chicago and bring family members together on computer screens here in the U.S. and in Germany. We will have our traditional gathering here at home and add Germany via a mingle, chat and video streams. I’ll also give my fancy Bluetooth headset a try. I’ve always been the geek in the family, but it’s always special when you know you’ve found a technology that’s not just a toy, but something that can truly improve your life.
If you think about it, Mingleverse is a way that enables you to divide yourself and be in multiple places around the globe at the same time. It is fascinating how geographic distances have become almost meaningless these days. Well, with the exception of time, of course. I’ll write in the new year how the mingle went - can't wait!
- Wolfgang
If you are mingling over the year celebration as well, send us a quick note! We’d love to hear about it!
My parents and my family here were never able to celebrate Christmas or New Year’s Eve together. This year, we will try to bridge the gap for the first time.
We decided to use Mingleverse to connect Munich with Chicago and bring family members together on computer screens here in the U.S. and in Germany. We will have our traditional gathering here at home and add Germany via a mingle, chat and video streams. I’ll also give my fancy Bluetooth headset a try. I’ve always been the geek in the family, but it’s always special when you know you’ve found a technology that’s not just a toy, but something that can truly improve your life.
If you think about it, Mingleverse is a way that enables you to divide yourself and be in multiple places around the globe at the same time. It is fascinating how geographic distances have become almost meaningless these days. Well, with the exception of time, of course. I’ll write in the new year how the mingle went - can't wait!
- Wolfgang
If you are mingling over the year celebration as well, send us a quick note! We’d love to hear about it!
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