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8-3-2010 - in this issue:
Top Story - TelePresence Defined With No Pants On!
Tele/Presence Forum Expo
- Polycom's Chief Collaboration Officer Talks as Tele/Presence Expo
- Keynote Speeches from University of Wisconsin, International Digital Media Experts, Tele/Presence Visionaries and others.
- Cisco's Tim Szigeti Speaks at Expo (see topic below) and everyone gets his book "Cisco TelePresence Fundamentals."
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Welcome to Tele/Presence Forum
Simply put, Tele/Presence extends and complements Presence in Unified Communications.
Tele/Presence Forum Summit - Boulder - Sept 28-30
at the St. Julien Hotel (www.stjulien.com) with keynotes from International Tele/Presence experts, audio, video, group, room and human factors. See below for keynote and exhibitor/attendee information or check here.
Special $395 Non-profit/Edu discount and $495 until September 1 early bird discounts. Click here to register.
Come see exciting solutions from:
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"Better Than Being There"
Get Real - Live Meetings
For more than 30 years, I have
been literally around the world seeing video teleconferencing systems. Two days
ago I saw something that was innovative, effective and engaging. I call
it LMT-Live Meeting Technology.
Key Benefits
Eye-to-Eye and "Real Life" - LMT systems align the
camera at the eye level of the participants through the usage of a patented
display system incorporating a special image technology. Other systems
that place the camera outside of the image area are not capable of achieving
this alignment and therefore do not have true eye-to-eye contact.
Seriously can you tell this is not live?
Lifesize interaction - This system achieves true depth of field
without the usage of special glasses by generating a life-size image of the
transmitted participants that appears physically in front of a backdrop. The 3D
TelePresence systems deliver an astonishing sense of presence within the three
dimensional setting of the room for natural communication.
Total CODEC Interoperability - all of the "Real Life"
systems are universal to accept cameras and codecs from the major
manufacturers. In this way the LMT solutions can meet international standards
for communication with all video conference systems globally.
FREE - Tele/Skills Communications Solutions
In the spirit of this concept, I am excited to help promote the
concept of "Live Meeting Technology." With each system, you
will receive at no additional charge, onsite one full-day of training from
"award-winning" industry experts.
The training class includes - Introducing and Integrating Real
"Live" Meeting Into Your Organization
Topics included are:
- Setting the Context for Meetings
- Project Initiation
- Guide to Successful Meetings of Any Kind
- Enhancing Communications
- Roles and Functions of Participants
- Beyond Communications, Move Minds, Not Matter
- Successful Business Applications - Saving Time, Increasing
Revenues, Reducing Cycle Time
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Featured Tele/Presence Expo Speaker
TelePresence Defined With No Pants On!
Editor's Note: Howard is by many definitions, the pre-eminent expert in telepresence. Not surprising, he also has a sense of humor. He just wanted to let you know what he is really like before you see him here in Boulder.
In the meantime, he wanted to give you a "sneak peak" at what he will be presenting in Boulder.
Telepresence Conferencing Defined
Telepresence is the science and art of creating visual conferencing environments
that address the human factors of the participants and duplicate, as closely as
possible, an in-person experience.
Telepresence
greatly improves end-user acceptance, which dramatically increases usage and
substantially improves demand, ROI and customer satisfaction.
While a variety of methods can be used to
deliver telepresence
solutions, they typically offer some combination of the following:
· Life-size participants
· Fluid motion
· Accurate flesh tones
· Studio quality video, lighting and
acoustics
· The absence of visible technology
· True eye contact, or the approximation of
eye contact
in large group settings
· Immersive and/or mirrored environments
where participants
feel as if they are in the same physical
space
· A consistency-of-quality between disparate
locations.
There is more about Howard below and what he can do with this PANTS ON!
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Featured Tele/Presence Expo Speaker
"The Future of Inter-Company Visual Collaboration. . . Today!"
This presentation will address:
- Building a Business Case and Modeling ROI for Tele/Presence
- The rising hard, soft, and opportunity cost of Tele/Presence
- Balancing Physical Travel Versus Tele/Presence
- Utilizing Tele/Presence for Economic Development and Global Expansion
- Enhancing and Accelerating Revenue Growth via Tele/Presence
- Integrating Tele/Presence into the Supply Chain for Improvement Channel Partner Communications Howard S. Lichtman is a productivity-focused technology futurist, author, publisher and consultant with specialties in telepresence and visual collaboration to improve organizational and personal productivity. He is the founder and president of the Human Productivity Lab, an independent consultancy and research firm that helps organizations design telepresence strategies and deploy telepresence solutions. He is the publisher of Telepresence Options, the #1 website on the Internet covering the telepresence revolution and editor of the Telepresence Options Telegraph, the world's most widely read publication covering telepresence technologies.
Mr. Lichtman is also the author and/or co-author of The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Handbook (2009), The Telepresence and Videoconferencing Exchange Review(2010), Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light (2006), and Emerging Technologies for Teleconferencing and Telepresence (2005). He is currently working on Telepresence Options 2010. |
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New Keynote Speech at Tele/Presence Forum Expo
"Market Dynamics Shaping the Adoption of Telepresence"
Bob Preston - Chief Collaboration Officer Polycom
Organizational
o Global economy
o Recession reset
o Do more with less
o Efficiency of operations
o Fast ROI
Social Trends
o Gen Y life style
o Road warriors
o Instant communications
o Virtual & remote workers
o Green / CO2
o Social media
Technology Enablers
o Unified Communications
o Open Standards
o Real time connection from single point of access
o Presence
Presenter: Bob Preston is the Chief Collaboration Officer at Polycom, Inc. His role at the company is to help organizations understand the application and benefits of voice, video, and telepresence collaboration solutions within industries and vertical markets such as healthcare, education, government, and enterprise. Bob is an expert resource in the area of increasing productivity and efficiency through collaboration solutions. He also leads the Industry Solutions group on a global basis - a team of industry experts developing strategic initiatives in targeted industries. Bob is a blogger and frequent public speaker on the topic of business value of collaboration solutions.
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NEWS - Cisco's Tim Szigeti Speaks at T/P Expo and signs his book "Cisco TelePresence Fundamentals."
Speech Title: Best Practices: TelePresence Design
- TelePresence Technologies Overview
- Simplicity, Quality & Reliability - TelePresence "Best Practices"
- System
- Room
Tim Szigeti, CCIE#9794, is a Technical Leader in the Enterprise Systems Engineering team at Cisco Systems. His role is to design network architectures for the next wave of medianet applications, including TelePresence, IP video surveillance, digital media systems and desktop video. He has also specialized in Quality of Service technologies for the past decade, during which he has authored many technical papers, including the Enterprise QoS Design Guide and the TelePresence Design guide. He has also co-authored the Cisco Press Books: End-to-End QoS Network Design and Cisco TelePresence Fundamentals.
All paid attendees to the Tele/Presence Forum Expo will receive a copy these "green" ebooks.
624+ page ebook ebook.
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Tele/Conferencing
Linking People Together Digitally (2010)
by Thomas B. Cross
 A humorous example of a face-to-face (F2F) meeting. People say they prefer F2F but when you consider all the issues in human communications, then consider how communication changes in a tele/presence meeting. It's not that tele/presence is that great, it's that F2F are generally not that great either. |
Tele/Presence Forum Expo Keynote Speech
From Teleconferencing to Telepresence
Making Virtual Meetings Work For You
Hal Josephson - President of MediaSense
· A brief history -- thirty years of tele-meetings - what will meetings be like 30 years from now
· Best practices -- developing valuable tele-skills - enhancing human communications with tele/presence
· Creative techniques applied: lessons learned - what has failed and what will it take to succeed
Hal Josephson is President of MediaSense, a San Francisco firm that specializes in international business development, strategic marketing/communication and special project planning management services for high-tech businesses. Hal works extensively Pacific Rim companies focusing on assisting partnerships and alliances with Chinese companies. In addition, Hal is the annual Program Chair, Executive Producer and Host of the annual Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (DELF) and the Cyberport Venture Capital Forum (CVCF) in Hong Kong, China. Hal has specific industry experience in satellite communications, teleconferencing, interactive media, IP licensing, as well as conference design, event promotion and media production, with decades of experience in international business development and strategic marketing. Hal was a co-founder of the International Teleconferencing Assn. (ITS) and has served on the Board of Directors of the Australian-American Chamber of Commerce. Hal has been an Advisor to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, The Banff New Media Institute and the City of San Jose. Hal was a founding instructor of San Francisco State University's Multimedia Studies Program, and is co-author of the book, Careers in Multimedia: Roles and Resources. In addition, Hal has authored a variety of articles about communication and media in diverse publications including Digital Media, New Scientist, NewMedia, Information Week SMB, Conferenza, New Zealand Business and Australia's Metro Magazine.
Hal has keynoted more than 100 industry events during his career, both nationally and internationally, and has appeared as a guest speaker at the World Congress for Information Technology, in Adelaide, Australia, at Unitec's New Zealand Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and at Calgary, Alberta's Westlink Innovation Center. Hal's presentations include: "Doing Effective Business in a Shifting World Marketplace", "Smart Marketing for Entrepreneurial Businesses" and "Business Development by Design: Strategies that Generate Results".
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Understanding and Troubleshooting Video Conferencing Networks
Presented by Gary Thom, President, Delta Information Systems &
Thomas Smith, Program Director, University of Wisconsin
· The bulk of installed systems are H.323 compliant, how can H.323 work with SIP and other standards and protocols
· How does the ITU H.323 and SIP standards support advanced audio and video features
· What are the common problems in videoconferencing networks
For more on University of Wisconsin - Department of Engineering Professional Development Programs - click here |
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Time Factors - Changing the Speed of Time and Speed of
Organizational Velocity
Whether you are Bill Gates or anyone else, we all have the same amount of time.
In writing the book "Split Second Society," I wrote about the many
factors which drive sales, products, business process and other events impacts
our business and personal lives. Yes, there are events which you cannot
change. Yes, there are some people who think that nine women can have a
baby in one month but the reality is, as the rest of us know, takes a long
time. In business, time drives all business behavior. However, can
you create a "time warp" to change the performance of the
organization. Decades ago, I wrote about "OV" or Organizational
Velocity. The answer is yes. Traditional time barriers, for example,
different individual schedules and different time zones, can be overcome with
"Live" meeting technology. Live meeting technology changes the "time
paradigm" as meetings can be "on demand" whenever users have the time and at
their own convenience. This means that people can participate independently of
each other's time schedules.
Live
Meeting Technology (LMT) can also be substituted for some meetings, thus
eliminating time spent arranging to travel and traveling, time spent away from
the job, as well as time spent reintegrating into the job upon return.
Additionally, research indicates that meetings with LMT are better organized
and of shorter duration than face-to-face meetings. Studies have demonstrated
that meeting technology participants tend to organize their presentations, comments,
and questions more tightly than during conventional meetings, resulting in time
savings of 25 to 30 percent. There tend
to be more, not fewer, meetings that, when given a positive interpretation,
mean a regularization of communication. Improved
"organizational velocity," or the extent to which the decision-making
process is sped up, and consequently how this improves the timeliness of
decisions, is the result. A quicker crisis reaction time is also ensured with
"Live" meeting technology, as emergency meetings can be called
whenever necessary.
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Green House Gas Saving Calculators
Here are two calculators for your planning purposes. While green cost savings are often perceived is the principal "hard dollar" savings, other hard dollars result from reduced sales cycle, faster product-to-market, reduced communications diffusion costs, and others.
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Tele/Presence Forum provides education, research, and events designed to improve awareness of the benefits of tele/presence whether video, audio, computer, multi-media, web and other systems.
Among the many benefits, Tele/Presence can:
- Reduce sales cycles - and are proven to increase revenues
- Reduce business costs - travel, downtime, meeting delays, business processes
- Improve productivity - increased coordination yields improved customer communications
- Accelerates communications - faster communications means faster product cycles
- Reduce customer communications disasters - reduce impact of crisis situations |
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