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Putting the spotlight on COMMUNITY

Introducing the Toucan Speaker Series! We are inviting a community expert to take a deep dive into certain aspects of community building.

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Communities of Learners

Andrew's "Multilingual Monday Meetup" is a place where many languages are welcome - and encouraged.

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Toucan as a virtual workspace

Find out about how our Superhost Ken Newby uses Toucan as a remote office space for VisionRe!

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What's fresh on Toucan?

Read our newest blog about Code BEAM's latest events on our platform. Also, have you seen our latest chat improvements?

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Calling all community managers & enthusiasts

We started a Meetup group for all community managers to get together and discuss the dos, don'ts, and everything in between.

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Our website has a new look!

We felt it was time to also give our website a boost!

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Center Stage Announcement

Center stage allows you to take up much more room in the middle of everybody's screens. That way, your presentation is more prominent.

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Oh, the things you can do with a Toucan Space!

Our users are already telling us how Spaces has expanded what they're able to do with their communities.

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Thank you for coming to our baking Social!

We were so excited to see you at our first ever baking Social! To say thank you, we have have a gift: the baguette recipe!

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By Popular Demand: More SPACES!

We officially released 500 Spaces last Thursday. By Sunday, they had all been claimed.

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We've added some new meeting tools!

DND, about me, and wide view announcement!

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Claim your very own Toucan Space now!

You can be with your team via video 24/7, so it feels like you're all in the same physical place.

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We're giving you EARLY ACCESS to Toucan Spaces

Spaces gives you a place to call your own on Toucan.

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Introducing: About Me

Now you can edit your profile to give a short description of who you are, what you're interested in, a fun fact, or your favorite icebreaker.

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Use any email to log into Toucan!

Introducing: Toucan Logins! Now, you can create a Toucan account with any email - it doesn't have to be Google - and password.

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Did you catch Toucan in FORBES?!

We're very excited to let you know that Forbes 😳 wrote about Toucan. They dive into the company's founding and the product itself.

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Learn from Professor Bill von Hippel!

If you missed our AMA event with Professor Bill von Hippel, don't fret! As promised, we recorded it. Watch it as many times as you'd like, there's always something new to learn from Bill. 🧠

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Toucan turns ONE!

Exactly one year ago, our founding team came together, and that was the beginning of a wild, wonderful, fascinating ride.

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Bye, Bye, BETA!

Over the past year, we've been hard at work to bring you a social experience that's fresh and fun as we leave beta behind.

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The Superhost of Superhosts

Roxanne Feldman has been a Superhost since she first started using Toucan back in July 2020. Antonia sat down with her recently to discuss the creative ways in which she uses the platform with her friends and students.

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You're invited to an EXTRA special Toucan Social!

The Toucan team invites you to a special talk with Professor Bill von Hippel: Tech-Social: The Pros and Cons of Connecting Online.

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Announcing: Superhost Spotlights

We're launching this new series: Superhost Spotlights! Our first Superhost Spotlight is on Kae Huynh (EnterpriseGuy), who hosts regular networking events for his LinkedIn community.

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🎉24 hour party on Toucan!

Trying out Toucan has never been easier. Get to know how all our features work and get a sense of what a larger event is like anytime, anywhere. Just go to toucan.events and click "Try the Demo."

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Jumpstart 🚀 your social life in just 4 simple steps!

Your friends and colleagues will breathe a sigh of relief when you tell them that your next get-together is not on a traditional videoconferencing platform. Everyone's tired of enduring awkward, stilted interactions in a lifeless grid.

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LinkedIn ➡️ Toucan

Bring your LinkedIn communities to Toucan, it's the most natural, most fun way to network.

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Logins made easy

On Toucan, you have three easy options for logins: Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Become a Superhost in just 4 simple steps

A Superhost goes above and beyond to give their guests the best experience Toucan has to offer. The secret to being a Toucan Superhost? Nothing more than a quick minute and a half.

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The Toucan BLOG is here!

We're so excited to announce the newest addition to the Toucan website: our blog! This is where we'll be writing short pieces on a variety of topics ranging from how we got started building Toucan to fun virtual activity inspiration, from mental health to the challenges of networking.

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Toucan now works on TABLETS!

You can now bring Toucan with you wherever you go! So many of you have requested that we support more devices than just computers, so we've been working hard to bring the natural flow of Toucan to iPad and Android tablets.

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Two new features to help you step up group engagement

You can now share your screen with just the people in your group. You can also send emoticons and text messages to your entire group at once.

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We'd like to thank you for being an Earlybird!

You, our Earlybirds, inspire us by using our platform, providing valuable feedback, helping us grow, and spreading the word. You are valuable members of our team--our family.

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The Toucan Team ❄️Season's Greetings☃️

As 2020 draws to a close, we wanted to reach out and thank you for using Toucan. In times like these, being close to friends, family, colleagues, and communities makes everything better. That's what we have aimed to do since the beginning: bring people together in the most natural way.

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Guess what?! We're live on Product Hunt!

Product Hunt is a great way for companies to gain exposure when they launch new products. We would greatly appreciate it if you took a minute to support us.

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Today's the day...Toucan is ✨LIVE✨!

This is a big day. Toucan is now live and accessible to everyone for free!

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We're excited to announce that Toucan is going LIVE!

After 6 months in private beta, we believe we're ready to take on the world. This Tuesday (11/24), we'll be unveiling the first public beta version of our app!

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Introducing: Tags!

With Tags, you're able to get a sense of what a group on the other side of an event is talking about--without having to jump in there yourself. Use them for icebreakers in a casual setting, for designating team meeting locations within your company, and assigning specific areas for discussion groups.

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