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"A few weeks ago," writes Alastair Creelman, "I wrote a post about the missing link in online conferences; the opportunity to network and discuss during mingle parties, coffee breaks and sightseeing tours." In this post, he recounts an "experimental webinar to show a variety of tools and methods for creating such informal meeting spaces." They tried  a virtual office solution called Remo. and similar solutions such as Sococo and Walkabout." The technology is already in place and is developing rapidly and the only thing missing is the willingness of educators to start experimenting with new forms of online meetings," he writes. The article includes a 45 minute video of the webinar.

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