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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Compass Business Solutions Offers Valuable Training Discounts to VCI-Group Members.
VCIG Live! April 18th Review of 2013 Products and Services – What You Should be Watching For This Year
 | VCIG Live! virtual sessions are designed to educate our community on a variety of topics related to visual communications strategy, operations, technology, and more. Some of our sessions are also geared toward topics of interest to our Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for education, health care, and others. |
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Monday, April 1, 2013
April 2013 VCI-Group President’s Message
April
2013 VCI-Group President’s Message
Our
(VCI-Group’s) responsibility to YOU as our members is to provide you with
information regarding what is happening in the industry, to make you aware of
the companies that are “best in breed” and to make you aware of any discounts
we have negotiated.
I urge you
to go to the VCI-Group website (http://www.vci-group.org/membership/membershipdiscounts.aspx) to review the promotions and discounts
we have negotiated for you; they range from equipment purchases to educational
opportunities. These offerings will
continue to grow and we will make them available to you through email messages
and our newsletter. However, you should
visit the website periodically to see what has been added.
I also, encourage
you to participate in the webinars that we are hosting. Our WebRTC webinar was well attended and
received. Many of you have requested additional information on how to build,
implement and deploy. In the near
future, we will offer accredited training sessions on WebRTC, BYOD and many
more topics in conjunction with one of our Alliance Partners. You will be able to train at a time that is
convenient to you and without having to leave your home or office.
In addition
to our monthly VCIG Live! webinars
our Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have begun to meet. The first was the Healthcare SIG and coming
in April is our Distance Learning SIG. Each
of these sessions will have a Chairperson and agenda topics to guide the
conversation. They will be recorded and posted for you to view at your leisure.
Other new
items include two spotlights; the first will be a webinar from a member of our
Circle of Leadership who will discuss a particular product or service and the
second will be a newsletter article which will highlight a VCI-Group Member offering
an opportunity to see the exciting
things that some of our peers are doing.
Another new
program soon to be introduced is an Emerging Technologies Corner webinar
initiated as a result of the vast number of new companies entering our industry in just the
past few months. You will hear about new
products and services and determine for yourself if they could add value in
your organization.
To keep
abreast of all that we are doing and what is available to you visit the VCI-Group
website, http://www.vci-group.org/Home.aspx on a regular basis.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Compass Business Solutions offers discounts To VCI Group Principal Members
Compass Business Solution is now offering VCI-Group members a 15% discount on training opportunities including VIVND and TVS courses. This discounts more than covers the cost of your membership, and provides you with training from the global leader of videoconferencing and telepresence product line training. To take advantage of this offer please visit VCI Group membership benefits and login using your VCI Group Credentials. If you are not a VCI-Group member please visit and sign-up today for VCI Group.
Compass offers online courses for end-users and operators. Electronic end-user and operator product training provides students with a curriculum designed to be available anytime, anywhere and on-demand. As a VCI-Group Member you will receive a registration code and save 15%.
Compass Business Solutions is a learning company focused on helping people use and support video communication and telepresence technologies to improve their business. Training sessions follow a best practices approach to optimize all aspects of video usage and support. Compass was founded in 2008 by industry professionals who have been working with telecommunication and video technologies since 1989 and who helped launch Tandberg University in the USA in 2006, then becoming Cisco’s first authorized Telepresence Specialist Learning Partner in the US.
VCI-Group is the knowledge-sharing community that shapes the Visual Communications Industry and is a community comprised of 500+ end-users and vendors focused on videoconferencing, telepresence, Unified Communications and/or collaboration technology. Membership consists of individuals from organizations that make visual communications purchasing decisions or recommendations and create implementation strategies, and/or support the technology. Membership information can be found at http://www.vci-group.org.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
A Quick Look at The Mezzanine Conference Room
A Quick Look at The
Mezzanine Conference Room
The dual monitor
collaboration setup is becoming more and more common in standard business
meeting rooms. Generally, one monitor will be dedicated to videoconferencing,
and the second will be dedicated to basic screenshare. The Mezzanine Conference Room by Oblong takes this basic concept
to the extreme, by not only increasing the number of screens in use, but vastly
improving their flexibility and usability. The result is a next generation collaboration space capable of producing attention grabbing presentations, as well
as increasing the productivity of your working teams.
I reached out to David Kung, VP at
Oblong, to learn more about the Mezzanine conference room. After all, anyone
can hang big monitors all over the walls and call it a collaboration space, so
what makes this so special. The answer, as I soon learned, is the intuitive
user interface which allows users to effectively use these screens in
unexpected ways.
ContinueReading the rest of the story at Telepresence Options.
Monday, March 11, 2013
VCI-Group and Avcomm Solutions Offer Member Discounts
VCI-Group has teamed up with Avcomm Solutions, Inc. to provide high quality audio/video hardware accessories to our
members at a discounted rate. Avcomm Solutions, Inc. offers an extensive
line of products ranging from individual web cameras to large conference room
speakerphones. Avcomm also specializes in Jabra headset solutions.
Avcomm Solutions, Inc. provides exceptional customer service and
technical support. They maintain a
strong business relationship with the manufacturers they represent, which
ensures competitive pricing and a high level of product knowledge. Avcomm's product portfolio is
positioned to support the ever-growing Unified Communication market.
To take advantage of this offer please visit VCI Group Users member discount and login using your VCI Group Credentials. If you are not a VCI-Group
member please visit www.VCI-Group.org and sign-up today.
Friday, March 1, 2013
March 2013 VCI-Group President’s Message
We are now
one quarter into the year – yes, time does move fast. This month we should be focusing on the new
products and services that will no doubt be announced by most manufacturers and
service providers at Enterprise Connect.
This is the
first and one of the new conferences that is really picking up momentum in the
industry as it is comprised of an exhibit floor, educational sessions and
relevant key note presentations.
Our job as
strategists, implementers and supporters of conferencing and collaboration
technology and services depends upon knowing what is emerging, what is new and
what no longer will exist in this industry.
I think the
question that we each need to ask ourselves as we review what is new in the
industry is “what is the culture of your
organization/company”? Is your
company willing to be ‘bleeding edge’, do they want to be the first to
implement a new service or infrastructure?
Are they willing to be a guinea pig?
Or does your company prefer that something has been in the industry for
at least a year, which other companies have implemented it and you can learn
from their challenges? Or is it possible
that your company is a laggard? Perhaps
you do not implement something until it has been in the market for at least 3
to 5 years?
Whatever
your company’s culture – none of them are wrong. It simply determines whether you are risk
adverse or not; whether the implementation of a technology of service can be
disruptive to your organization.
Take
advantage of organizations, networking opportunities and social media to engage
with other individuals who are in your same vertical and who have the same
challenges as you. All of us like to
talk about our successes; and, surprisingly enough will also speak about our
failures. Join various organizations on
LinkedIn, Facebook; and, become a member of the Visual Communications Industry
Group – there are many of us who are willing to “tell it like it is”.
The best way
to service your company and your clients is to stay informed. Continue to go to our website often to see
what webinars, training sessions and discounts are available to you as a Visual
Communications Industry Group member.
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