VenueGen CEO, David Gardner will be speaking virtually at the physical conference in San Diego at 1:15 ET January 10th. He will be joined by two other virtual industry CEO’s discussing the value of greater online engagement, what audiences/use cases are the best fit for immersive modalities and where online immersion creates the greatest ROI.
David Gardner, CEO of VenueGen
Although the VEW conference have been an annual physical event for years, this is the first time one of the presenters has presented virtually at the event. “There’s certainly some irony in flying each year to a physical conference about meeting virtually”, Gardner states. This milestone is yet another indicator that immersive technologies have matured and are ready for the enterprise. Gardner will be using the VenueGen platform for his virtual appearance, content and audience interaction.
A Second Glance at 3D Virtual Learning: Cheaper, Easier, and More Robust
Wednesday, September 28 from 2 – 3 pm Eastern in VenueGen.
Caroline Avey of ACS Learning Services, a Xerox company
Join training expert Caroline Avey, Director of Innovative Solutions at ACS Learning Services, a Xerox company, for this limited-seat, interactive virtual presentation. Learn from her first-hand experience helping clients evaluate, select and implement various immersive training environments.
Discover what’s new in the next generation of immersive virtual training environments
Compare the functionality and cost models of today’s platforms
Learn the major factors that every organization should consider when evaluating virtual worldsvirtual
Only a few short years ago, the learning industry was enamored with the idea of immersive, or 3D, virtual worlds. They held promise of training more learners more efficiently than ever–without sacrificing the engagement and interactivity of the physical classroom. But for most of us, the love affair was quickly cut short by early problems with security, usability, bandwidth requirements, and cost.
3D worlds for business use may have faded from the spotlight in recent years, but behind the scenes, the latest virtual training environments have matured to fulfill their early promise: a viable online solution that’s as easy, natural, and effective as face-to-face instructor-led training.
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Virtual seats are limited to the first 40 people to arrive on the day of event, so register now to get a headstart!
VenueGen CEO and President will explore how virtual environments can make distance education as powerful as face-to-face instruction
(Research Triangle Park, NC: June 3, 2011) “Virtual instructor-led training (ILT) and distance education programs are only as powerful as their ability to truly engage dispersed teams,” says David Gardner, CEO and creator of VenueGen (www.VenueGen.com), an immersive virtual classroom and collaboration lab. “If learners are less involved, engaged, and present in the e-classroom than they are in the physical classroom, then where’s the ROI of going virtual? Even if you reduce travel and time out-of-field, a disengaged workforce is less effective and more costly over time.”
Gardner and VenueGen President Jeff Crown will explore this gap between face-to-face and virtual ILT, as well as the potential of new immersive e-classroom platforms to finally bridge it, with a presentation titled “Making Virtual Environments Work for Distance Education” at two June 2011 conferences.
Gardner will speak Thursday, June 9 at the International Conference for eLearning in the Workplace (ICELW) 2011, from 2 – 3 pm EDT at Columbia University in New York, NY. To learn more about the Conference or to register to attend, please visit www.icelw.org.
Crown’s presentation will take place at eLearning DEVCON 2011 in Salt Lake City, UT Wednesday, June 15 from 11:30 am – 12:15 pm as part of the conference’s Project Management track. Conference and registration information is available at www.elearningdevcon.com.
Making Virtual Environments Work for Distance Education will explore the following topics:
The value of immersive virtual training environments—beyond simply reducing travel costs—to enterprise organizations;
The strengths and weaknesses of currently available immersive technologies;
How to utilize these technologies to demonstrate measurable impact on learning;
Common mistakes and pitfalls encountered when adopting virtual environments for ILT;
Risks and critical success factors that should be considered when planning online learning strategies.
For more information, or to schedule an interview or meeting with Gardner or Crown at the events, please contact Kate Hendrick by phone at 919-727-9089, by email at khendrick@venuegen.com, or via Twitter at www.twitter.com/venuegen.
ONE+ ‘s Jason Hensel talks with VenueGen CEO David Gardner about the usability and user-engagement advantages of immersive web technologies. “You recognize people on-site. You can see who’s talking. When everyone turns and looks at you, your energy level spikes. It feels just like being in a real meeting.”
Many businesses are looking for ways to save time and money. One area that tends to get a lot of attention is travel expenses. For businesses that require frequent collaboration between workers, VenueGen’s virtual meetings can provide cost-effective solutions without losing the benefits of face-to-face communication.
VenueGen makes expensive transportation costs and travel time a thing of the past. The virtual 3D web conferencing platform provides an effective means of communication as effective as a 500,000 telepresence room—it’s that sense of actually being “there” with your colleagues. Featuring photo-created avatars, realistic meeting rooms, VoIP technology, surround sound, and content sharing, it’s the all in one program that’s easy to use and simple to install. No telepresence equipment or cameras required.
The effective communication produces better results for both business and customer relationships. Meeting attendees are able to see people’s facial expressions and read their body language which can greatly facilitate communications. Sharing documents and presentation slides enables worker collaboration over the internet.
The browser-based software loads in just seconds, allowing remote workers to come together in real-time over the internet. VenueGen makes it possible to hold meetings, lead training sessions, and service clients right from your desktop.
David Gardner‘s virtual presentation was rated as one of the best presentations at this years TIP-NEP Conference. In fact, Gardner’s 3D virtual presentation on VenueGen was given the highest presentation scores from 22 of 23 evaluators. His presentation was so engaging that he outperformed all other speakers there, even the in-person speakers.
Would you like to get rid of your audio and web conference calls? Get off the phone and in front of customers, and sell, sell, sell…
Bringing to the table over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and general management (leading successful startups and Fortune 500 organizations worth $10M-$6 Billion), VenueGen’s own Jeff Crown will show you how to take the pain out of your everyday sales life.
Live Event Details: Duration: 60 minutes, including Q&A Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST Where: VenueGen at www.venuegen.com Registration
At this special event, you will learn how to fire up your laptop or PC browser and be in a highly productive, collaborative online meeting with your colleagues in less than 60 seconds.
With no strings attached, our speakers will show you how you can drive sales momentum by throwing out unproductive, traditional online web and audio conferencing meetings and moving to VenueGen, a 3-D sales and marketing online meeting platform.
The VenueGen online sales & marketing meeting platform will help you:
1. Instantly review multiple forecasts and sales results on screen with your sales team
2. Share best practices for closing deals using tools or Power Point Presentations
3. Put a web camera on a new product to train your team on new features and competitive advantages.
4. Bring in outside speakers from remote locations anywhere in the world to share new sales techniques, closing techniques and get everyone motivated.
5. Run weekly staff meetings, or full day training events.
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However, if you are interested in learning more, but are unable to attend this event, please email us. We will gladly schedule a convenient time to show you how to run a more engaging sales or marketing meeting in 5 minutes. Overnight, your sales team will be more competitive and executing faster.
Important Please Read: If you plan to virtually attend this meeting it is very important that you register now to reserve your seat well in advance to allow enough time for the venue and meeting content to be downloaded to your computer. If this is not the computer you will be using to attend the meeting, please wait and register from the computer you will be using.
In a conventional lecture hall, audience members are seated together with focus on the instructor or presentation at the head of the room. In the case of many web learning tools, users may only have either audio or text to rely on. This lack of interaction adversely affects the listener’s ability to maintain focus, resulting in retention that is significantly reduced, and some information goes ignored entirely. VenueGen has set out to change all of that, delivering a time and money saving solution with the benefits of telepresence—just like being “there.” Think of it as “telepresence in your browser”.
Much like that traditional classroom experience, VenueGen’s virtual meetings empower company or academic students and teachers with real-time interaction and delivers that sense of presence. Participants establish a group identity with others, observe the instructor’s nonverbal cues, watch PowerPoint presentations integrated into the VenueGen platform, and raise their hands to signal desire to ask a question. Even step out of the virtual classroom and into one of our smaller venues for a more intimate study group.
Online learning methods have proven especially beneficial for those with complex work schedules, stay-at-home parents, companies who have consolidated their facilities or tech savvy people who prefer to work from home. Imagine attending three meetings in New York, Paris, and Chicago in one day, all from the convenience of your home computer. But the best payback of all is saving people’s travel time and budgets, while reaching a wider audience. Attendees have the ability to attend classes while instructors can teach them from anywhere in the world!
In a technological era, we are no longer bound by time or space. Especially in the changed economy, companies can save valuable time and money without sacrificing the learning experience of guests. Distance learning companies and major businesses are already switching to VenueGen virtual meetings. Try it for yourself. The download takes minutes to install and just 60 seconds to learn as an attendee. Sign up for a VenueGen free trial today.
People are driven by an inherent need to develop meaningful relationships and to connect with one another. And with social networking websites popping up every day, we are discovering new ways to communicate. But when engaging in social interaction, scientific research tells us up to 80% of our communication actually comes from nonverbal language. With that kind of figure, it’s no wonder so much information is lost through other web conferencing methods!
It is with this understanding that the creators of VenueGen are revolutionizing virtual meetings and distance learning with the totally immersive, 3D software platform that helps you to connect with others that is as close to being “there” as you can get. It’s the web conferencing platform that allows you to have both the audio and the visual focus of others in the room.
When you can see all of the other attendees while focusing on the speaker, you actually feel as though you’re part of something real. When other users speak, their names display in pop-ups above their heads so you can identify exactly who’s got the floor so you can adjust your avatar’s focus. This is not video with boxes of talking heads. This is a true 3D virtual room you are participating in. To supplement these unique visual cues, VenueGen features positional audio, meaning the volumes of others’ voices will vary depending on where they are located in the room in relation to you.
Beyond natural interaction, VenueGen allows users to control and share documents too. Your content is integrated on the screen in the virtual room (emulating a real conference). Content can be shared 3 ways: 1) distributed before the meeting to all attendees when they sign up, 2) added on the fly during a meeting, and 3) your entire screen can be shared on the fly. And get this -multiple users can share their screens at the same time! Imagine sharing multiple financials, sales forecasts, powerpoints. Everyone in the room has the option to enlarge and interact with the document on their own computer screen.
Ultimately as a speaker, being able to share a common visual focus will ensure you to have greater command over your virtual audience and as a result create a shared understanding of the information. This results in faster learning, insights and retention of information. Because VenueGen saves time and enhances productivity in meetings for long-term success, we are confident that you will find our software suitable for almost any virtual meeting need.
There seems to be no escaping the expenses and the loss of time that arises from trying to coordinate the travel and logistics for large-scale internal meetings—that is, until now. Entrepreneurs, small business owners and corporations alike have never had so many technological tools at their disposal before, so why lose time and money associated with traveling? New technologies can decrease costs while simultaneously increasing productively and returns on investment exponentially.
While many companies talk about embracing green technologies, many are not taking advantage of what online virtual meetings offer. In today’s age, online virtual meetings have eliminated the need for any travel, making services like VenueGen the perfect green alternative to in-person meetings.
Let’s face it – when training involves a large number of attendees, the time spent organizing events, travel and transportation for each individual turns into the hundreds of thousands when you consider travel time, wait, delays, time to move to and from a location, etc. What could your employees have accomplished during all that travel time? How many carbon emissions is their travel pushing into the environment?
Within seconds, employees are online virtually to train new employees, to discuss the latest business strategies, and to meet with clients across the coast, among other possibilities. Using VenueGen’s unique content sharing features, employees can seamlessly share information like they would during an in-person meeting. Users are able to browse the web with ease and share PowerPoint presentations. Advanced features allow users to see and hear where a speaker is in the 3D room, cancelling out extraneous noise and other speakers – an issue that plagues traditional audio and web conference calls. Unlike other conferencing tools like webinars, online 3D virtual meetings are designed to increase productivity by minimizing those distractions.
And with nearly every company in America doing training, 3D virtual meeting platforms enable employees to gather more information, learn and retain information more rapidly. The return on investment for online virtual meetings is simply unparalleled to other options. Visit our website to get a free 30 day trial today and see how it can revolutionize your business’ productivity.
In a conventional lecture hall, audience members are seated together with focus on the instructor or presentation at the head of the room. In the case of many 
People are driven by an inherent need to develop meaningful relationships and to connect with one another. And with social networking websites popping up every day, we are discovering new ways to communicate. But when engaging in social interaction, scientific research tells us up to 80% of our communication actually comes from nonverbal language. With that kind of figure, it’s no wonder so much information is lost through other 
