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"Tell us about yourself" is not a fireside chat question. It's a placeholder for a host who hasn't done the work and an invitation for the guest to deliver a five-minute origin story the audience will mentally check out of before it ends....

The phrase "fireside chat" has meant different things across different eras. In the 1930s, it referred to Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio addresses to a nation navigating the Great Depression. Speaking directly, as if to a friend by the fire rather than to a country in crisis,...

Riverside and Contrast webinars are platforms both solid choices for teams looking to upgrade their webinar setup. But they were built for different jobs, and understanding that difference saves a lot of frustration, and in some cases money down the line. Riverside started as a podcast and video recording studio....

If your LinkedIn feed looks anything like ours, the last few weeks have been a steady stream of screenshots: custom dashboards, live data feeds, automated workflows, all built with Claude. All built using MCPs. And almost every explanation assumes you already know what an MCP is. This article is for...

by Will Looney Senior Manager of Content Marketing at CertifID, as told to Contrast CertifID is growing fast. The company makes wire fraud prevention software for real estate closing firms. These are the companies that handle the transfer of funds when a property changes hands. They were running more webinars,...