We’ve just added a brand new feature for our minglers. In addition to the text chat whisper mode, you can now whisper “talk” to any participant in a mingle as well – without interrupting a presentation or general conversation. Just like you can quietly talk to people in a physical meeting, the new feature enables you to whisper to any other person in a mingle.
To whisper, simply choose the “Online” tab and select the “Actions” menu next to the person you want to whisper to. Click the whisper button and keep it pressed when you are whispering. You will hear a subtle background sound to let you know that you are in whisper mode. Release the button when you are done. You don’t have to keep the button pressed when someone else is whispering to you.
Your meeting will continue in the background and you will hear what is being discussed. We are excited about this new feature as we believe it is one more component that builds on the realism of Mingleverse online meetings. We want you to feel like if you were there.
Give this new feature a spin. We’d love to hear from you what you think!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Win A Custom-Made Mingle Room
What You'll Win:
A 50-Person Mingle Room with all features, including live video, for 1-year, built to your personal specifications. You will get to spend an hour with our Mingle Room designer to discuss what you'd like your personal Mingle Room design to look like.
Contest Rules
Contest is open to everyone. Winner will be chosen at random on March 22nd, 2010. You will be contacted by Daniel Ruscigno to schedule your session right away.
A 50-Person Mingle Room with all features, including live video, for 1-year, built to your personal specifications. You will get to spend an hour with our Mingle Room designer to discuss what you'd like your personal Mingle Room design to look like.
Additionally, you will win a $50 Google Adwords credit to spend on promoting your mingles or your mingle group.
How To win:
- Sign-Up for a free Mingleverse account, and then:
- Follow Mingleverse on Twitter and post
"Follow @Mingleverse and retweet this to win a custom Mingle Room! Details: http://mingleverse.com/promo/contest/".
OR
Write a couple sentences about how meeting online would save you time or money, and make your life easier. Email your entry to daniel@mingleverse.com and feel free to post it to your blog or Facebook page.
Contest Rules
Contest is open to everyone. Winner will be chosen at random on March 22nd, 2010. You will be contacted by Daniel Ruscigno to schedule your session right away.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Mingleverse Gets Favorite Early Stage IT Award
We were happy to receive the Favorite First Look Company (Early Stage IT) Award at the 2010 Canadian Financing Forum yesterday. The award was presented by Ian Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development. Other companies that were honored included Etalim, Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Nxtgen Emission Controls and Hatsize Corporation.
There are a couple award ceremonies coming up. The Telecom Council will hold its 2010 Telecom Council SPIFFY Award ceremony on February 25 and Mingleverse is nominated for Core Award for Best Fixed Telecom Opportunity that honors “the best investment opportunity within the fixed telecom sector”. The Vator Splash Competition Awarda will be handed out on March 4. Head over to the website and vote for us!
http://vator.tv/competition/show/vator-splash-competition
There are a couple award ceremonies coming up. The Telecom Council will hold its 2010 Telecom Council SPIFFY Award ceremony on February 25 and Mingleverse is nominated for Core Award for Best Fixed Telecom Opportunity that honors “the best investment opportunity within the fixed telecom sector”. The Vator Splash Competition Awarda will be handed out on March 4. Head over to the website and vote for us!
http://vator.tv/competition/show/vator-splash-competition
Mingling With Malcolm Gladwell
Best-selling book author Malcolm Gladwell hosted an exciting Mingle earlier this week, the first of its kind as far as we know. The Mingle was part of the Launch Party of F5 Expo, which will be held in Vancouver on April 7. Malcolm is the keynote speaker and will be discussing where business opportunities in social media begin and where they end.
What made this event so special was the fact that Gladwell joined an online group from his New York home, while Launch Party guests watched the event live from Vancouver. The Q&A session quickly jumped into topics Gladwell touched in his book “Outliers”. When do you really do well at what you do and do modern technologies allow us to learn faster and move to the edge that separates the main population from those who excel at certain tasks? Personally, I found Gladwell’s note that the success of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is based on “watch, learn and perfect swiftly and effectively” most interesting. You just know that many of us all will go out and buy an iPad. Or be at least jealous of those who will buy one.
It was Malcolm Gladwell’s first mingle, but there was virtually no learning curve and adjusted to our online 3D environment and the audience in front of him instantly. In fact, a sense of a pioneering event was omnipresent. When asked about his thoughts about Mingleverse by Tuan Nguyen of Tom’s Hardware, he said “it feels like I am in an episode of Star Trek.” That note brought back memories of “to boldly go where no man has gone before”, which surely would be flattering, but it was much more the new way of communicating Gladwell was referring to – which was equally flattering.
What made this event so special was the fact that Gladwell joined an online group from his New York home, while Launch Party guests watched the event live from Vancouver. The Q&A session quickly jumped into topics Gladwell touched in his book “Outliers”. When do you really do well at what you do and do modern technologies allow us to learn faster and move to the edge that separates the main population from those who excel at certain tasks? Personally, I found Gladwell’s note that the success of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is based on “watch, learn and perfect swiftly and effectively” most interesting. You just know that many of us all will go out and buy an iPad. Or be at least jealous of those who will buy one.
It was Malcolm Gladwell’s first mingle, but there was virtually no learning curve and adjusted to our online 3D environment and the audience in front of him instantly. In fact, a sense of a pioneering event was omnipresent. When asked about his thoughts about Mingleverse by Tuan Nguyen of Tom’s Hardware, he said “it feels like I am in an episode of Star Trek.” That note brought back memories of “to boldly go where no man has gone before”, which surely would be flattering, but it was much more the new way of communicating Gladwell was referring to – which was equally flattering.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Live Broadcast: Exit or Grow in 2010?
Mingleverse will give a live broadcast of the closing panel session of The Canadian Financing Forum 2010 on Thursday, January 28. Drop in to listen to what should be an interesting discussion with executives about the 2010 economy.
Todd Tessier, VP at BC Renaissance Capital Fund will moderate the panel, which will include David Bookbinder, Managing Partner at Tandem Expansion Fund, Jon Gelsey, Director of Corporate Development at Microsoft, Peter Cohen, Director of Enterprise Development at Amazon, and Mike Satterfield, General Partner, IT Investments at Yaletown Venture Partners.
Tune in for the 1 hour panel event at 4pm Pacific Time, which takes place in Vancouver, BC. We would expect a lot of talk, predictions and opinion on the 2010 economy for young companies with some insight courtesy of the executives on the panel. All session preceding the panel try to get a total of 30 startup companies (General IT and Cleantech) into contact with potential investors, so look for some general advice and hints how 2010 might pan out for North American businesses.
Todd Tessier, VP at BC Renaissance Capital Fund will moderate the panel, which will include David Bookbinder, Managing Partner at Tandem Expansion Fund, Jon Gelsey, Director of Corporate Development at Microsoft, Peter Cohen, Director of Enterprise Development at Amazon, and Mike Satterfield, General Partner, IT Investments at Yaletown Venture Partners.
Tune in for the 1 hour panel event at 4pm Pacific Time, which takes place in Vancouver, BC. We would expect a lot of talk, predictions and opinion on the 2010 economy for young companies with some insight courtesy of the executives on the panel. All session preceding the panel try to get a total of 30 startup companies (General IT and Cleantech) into contact with potential investors, so look for some general advice and hints how 2010 might pan out for North American businesses.
Malcolm Gladwell Mingle Tuesday Night!
Best-selling book author and journalist extraordinaire, Malcolm Gladwell, has set up a Mingle for Tuesday. It’s a great opportunity to shake virtual hands and ask a question or two. So if you have an hour time on Tuesday at 5 P.M. Pacific time, stop by and join the mingle from the comfort of your office chair or living room couch.
The Mingle will be a Q&A session that precedes Gladwell’s keynote at F5 Expo on April 7. At F5 Expo, Gladwell will be talking about the limitations of social media such as Facebook and Twitter and how they affect social change.
The Mingle topic range is not limited and there is plenty of opportunity to talk to the former New York bureau chief of the Washington Post and current writer for the New Yorker. Gladwell is also known as the author of book titles such as The Tipping Point and What The Dog Saw and Other Adventures. The Mingle will be 1 hour in length and will be followed by online networking.
Gladwell’s Mingle is priced at $40 for those who want to ask questions. If you want to simply listen to the event with Gladwell and business executives, you can join a viewing room for $25. Sign up for the event over at the F5 Expo page.
The Mingle will be a Q&A session that precedes Gladwell’s keynote at F5 Expo on April 7. At F5 Expo, Gladwell will be talking about the limitations of social media such as Facebook and Twitter and how they affect social change.
The Mingle topic range is not limited and there is plenty of opportunity to talk to the former New York bureau chief of the Washington Post and current writer for the New Yorker. Gladwell is also known as the author of book titles such as The Tipping Point and What The Dog Saw and Other Adventures. The Mingle will be 1 hour in length and will be followed by online networking.
Gladwell’s Mingle is priced at $40 for those who want to ask questions. If you want to simply listen to the event with Gladwell and business executives, you can join a viewing room for $25. Sign up for the event over at the F5 Expo page.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Mingle and Reduce Traffic During 2010 Winter Olympic Games
Just 28 days left to prepare for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver events until the Cauldron will be lit on February 12. Not just for the 6,850 athletes from 80 countries, 10,000 media representatives and several hundred thousand spectators who have purchased 1.85 million event tickets, but also for thousands of Vancouver Downtown businesses.
Translink, metro Vancouverʼs regional transportation authority, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) are anticipating a massive increase in traffic during the 16 days of the Games. Road closures as well as reduction of parking are a traffic concern as well. The city is asking visitors to use the Translink public transportation system and has started its TravelSmart in 2010 initiative to “encourage employees to make smart commuting choices and keep business running smoothly during Games-time.” The goal is to reduce overall expected traffic volume by 30%.
To support this initiative, we just announced that will offer free use of our award-winning 3D Audio Visual Internet communication service for the entire duration of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mingleverse is a true alternative for travel and we believe that businesses that host online meetings and collaborate online can help to reduce the overall traffic volume in a big way.
Join other Vancouver organizations, such as the Vancouver Board of Trade and The Telus World of Science, and support a massive traffic reduction during the Games. Simply sign up for a free Mingleverse account and mention Mingleverse in your organizationʼs pledge. You can find all information at mingleverse.com/pledge.
Translink, metro Vancouverʼs regional transportation authority, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) are anticipating a massive increase in traffic during the 16 days of the Games. Road closures as well as reduction of parking are a traffic concern as well. The city is asking visitors to use the Translink public transportation system and has started its TravelSmart in 2010 initiative to “encourage employees to make smart commuting choices and keep business running smoothly during Games-time.” The goal is to reduce overall expected traffic volume by 30%.
To support this initiative, we just announced that will offer free use of our award-winning 3D Audio Visual Internet communication service for the entire duration of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mingleverse is a true alternative for travel and we believe that businesses that host online meetings and collaborate online can help to reduce the overall traffic volume in a big way.
Join other Vancouver organizations, such as the Vancouver Board of Trade and The Telus World of Science, and support a massive traffic reduction during the Games. Simply sign up for a free Mingleverse account and mention Mingleverse in your organizationʼs pledge. You can find all information at mingleverse.com/pledge.
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