"People put up their own videos. There's kind of a grassroots, more home-cooking oriented movement online where people share videos and put them up on their blogs."

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For instance, companies are moving away from large functional departments where workers perform uniform tasks, and towards smaller, customer-oriented teams, where people frequently cover for each other and need to be able to perform many different tasks.

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So far, it's at tech-oriented conferences like this where people are most aware of the "backchannel, " or the real-time electronic chit-chat going on about presentations as they occur.

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