20th Annual TeleCon Awards and Prestigious Pillar Award to be Presented At Fall TelECon Expo; Submission Deadline is August 3, 2001.

Business/Technology Editors

TeleCon Expo

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2001

This year marks the 20th Annual TeleCon Awards, a salute recognizing the best products, applications and services for collaboration, conferencing and e-learning. These prestigious awards will be presented at TeleCon 2001 Conference & Expo to individuals or organizations that have built or utilized a collaboration system that delivers outstanding service. "Call For Entries" submission forms can be found online at www.teleconexpos.com. The deadline for Call For Entries submissions is Friday, August 3, 2001.

Categories for submission include Marketing for which editors from Advertising Age will present awards for best web site, best print ad, best corporate brochure and best direct mail piece/project. Editors of e-learning magazine will present the e-learning awards divided by levels of education, and members of the FGDLA will present the award for the best e-learning program for the government. Dr. S. Ann Earon with the IMCCA and Mike Pihlman of Berkeley Labs will judge the Conferencing category and will offer 5 awards, ranging from best MCU to best service provider to best gatekeeper. The category of Collaboration will be judged by David Coleman of Collaborative Strategies, who will judge products and services in the areas of value chain collaboration, training and e-learning as well as innovation, knowledge management and community, among others. The fifth category will be Application/Users, with awards to be presented to the most innovative use in videoconferencing, most effecting use in web conference and others. Lastly, awards will be presented in the category of Streaming Media, and will be judged by the IMTC for best audio, best video and best content delivery. In addition, The Pillar Award will be awarded to the individual or organization with the most positive impact in the industry overall.

TeleCon Conference & Expo, the leading show and conference for solutions for enhanced communications, will be held October 22-25, 2001 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. The show features a broad array of hardware and software solutions, making TeleCon Expo a key industry event covering all aspects of content collaboration and the most current technology available. For additional information about the events and the awards visit www.teleconexpos.com or call 800-829-3400 or 218-723-9130.

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