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Many companies launch business conferences in order to promote themselves, help establish their brand and provide networking opportunities for themselves and others.  However, many businesses that look into this option often have to scrap it or postpone it.  This reality is due to the high costs involved with hosting and running events.  Renting a conference location, making deals with local hotels, and hiring temporary staff to work an event all add up to serious costs that not every company can handle.  However, there is now a cool product that allows smaller companies to host virtual business conferences on the Internet.  HyperFair creates virtual conference spaces that professionals can log into in order to view live presentations and chat with other attendees for networking purposes.  Companies can promote networking by hosting events without having to spend money on renting and staffing a physical location.  Businesses that want to use HyperFair to put on virtual events will need a business IT support provider to help them put the appropriate systems in place.  Read more »

Many social networking sites claim to connect people and bring them together, but these connections often exist only in the virtual world of the Internet.  Cool person in technology Kate Spivak believes that connections, whether professional or personal, are much stronger when made in the flesh.  That’s why this cool person founded BlendAbout, a new Internet startup that connects people of similar interests online and then also connects them in the real world.  Spivak’s company accomplishes this by matching up people with similar interests and placing them into group dinners designed for personal and professional networking.  BlendAbout meetings connect six people with similar interests according to their profiles and reserve a meal for them at a restaurant they can all travel to conveniently.  People can use these dinners to meet other people in their professional field or others who share their hobbies.  Rather than only posting comments back and forth in a forum or chat room on the web, Spivak’s startup aims to connect people in the physical world as well.  Read more »

Influential people such as celebrities, CEOs, former political leaders, and other prominent figures often find that there is a large demand for their time.  People swarm them with fan mail, tweets, e-mails, and other requests for their attention, advice or consideration.  Since this is often overwhelming, people of influence don’t take the time to respond or address these requests for their time in any meaningful way.  Cool tech product Huddlewoo attacks this problem by allowing influential people to advertise their free time and receive offers for personal video chats.  Huddlewoo allows people to charge an hourly rate for their time to keep requests only from those with serious inquiries.  If someone is a particularly famous celebrity, they can even make conversations they have public so others can share the experience as well.  Those who want to connect with influential people via Huddlewoo will need to know how to set up and use a web cam for video chatting.  Those who are inexperienced with video chat should seek an onsite computer support service for assistance to get started with Huddlewoo. Read more »