Delivers Virtual Meeting Educational and Educational Content To Your Home or Office.SeminarSource.com has developed the technology to broaden the scope of your meetings by providing a long distance learning capability called SeminarCast [TM]. SeminarCast is a webcasting service that allows members who cannot physically attend meetings to participate from their homes and offices via the Internet. Whether live or on-demand, it allows for increased visibility and reach, thus providing meeting planners with additional participation that continues even after the event is over. The streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video broadcasts also support automated certified See certification. educational accreditation Accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which a facility's or institution's services and operations are examined by a third-party accrediting agency to determine if applicable standards are met. testing and reporting, which allows Educational Directors of associations and professional societies to offer members an efficient online testing tool to use in maintaining their professional certifications Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure that he/she is qualified to perform a job or task. . Case Study When the American Counseling Association The American Counseling Association (ACA) is a non-profit, professional organization that is dedicated to the counseling profession. ACA is the world's second largest association exclusively representing professional counselors. sought to change the face of their annual meetings and provide increased continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). opportunities for its entire constituency, distance learning via the Internet was by far the most attractive and logical solution. To accomplish this goal, the ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture turned to another group of professional problem-solvers--SeminarSource.com. Because the ACA's conferences include a robust curriculum of continuing education presentations and professional development seminars that the organization wished to capture and catalogue online for on-demand viewing, SeminarCast proved to be the most effective solution. An initial relationship that began with SeminarSource.com providing services for one ACA conference has developed into an ongoing partnership. "Many of our members lose revenue when they have to go offsite, which affects our conference attendance," comments Howard Smith, director of Professional Learning and Resources for the ACA. "SeminarCast will enable them to participate without leaving the office." The first phase of the ACA project was to implement and manage a six-week trial to gauge member interest. SeminarSource.com developed a sample site with streaming content from the organization's video library and a brief survey, receiving more than 900 hits and an overwhelmingly positive response. The ACA then polled state licensor boards to determine if online professional development courses would satisfy continuing education requirements. "All but a few state boards state boards Examinations administered by a US state board of medical examiners to license a physician in a particular state; these examinations play an ever-decreasing role in state medical licensure, as these bodies now rely on standardized national examinations were willing to accept online professional development," noted Smith. "At that point, the team from SeminarSource.com took us by the hand in a very affirming way and led us through the project." ACA now offers online courses that allow counselors to earn credits toward credential renewal with the simple click of a mouse from their home or office. Through the SeminarCast offering, ACA is also able to offer course content testing and evaluations along with the continuing education seminars being broadcast online. "SeminarSource.com's technology made it easy for ACA members to transition from attending sessions in the traditional sense to participating via the Internet," said Smith. Features of SeminarCast[TM] * Secure online payment processing engine supports charging fees for online viewing and listing of webcasted content, via pay-per-view or subscription * Largest distributed server network allows unlimited users to be online at the same time * Free access of media player with instant download capability * Provides editing, encoding See encode. , and hosting * Customer support available to assist with online viewing * Worldwide reach through remote technology both live and on-demand * Generate CD-Roms with educational content, meetings, and audio/video * Banner advertising Banner Advertising A common form of advertising on the internet. The banner is an advertisement of 460x68 pixels, usually placed at the top of the page Notes: For an example, just look at the top of a page on almost any popular web site. opportunities for additional revenue streams * Easy integration to your existing Web site with a "Register Now" button * Incorporates MS Power Point, technical slides, overhead slides, moderated chat, and handouts Benefits of SeminarCast[TM] * Extends the reach and life of the meeting * Provides meeting and educational content to non-attending members * Increases the access and participation of the target audience * Opportunity for additional non-competing revenue streams * Enables the gathering of feedback about meeting program content * Creates distance learning opportunities through automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. and reporting * Audio/video content can't be copied, downloaded or redistributed re·dis·trib·ute tr.v. re·dis·trib·ut·ed, re·dis·trib·ut·ing, re·dis·trib·utes To distribute again in a different way; reallocate. Adj. 1. for unauthorized use Established in 1998, SeminarSource.com is a principal application service provider of online meeting content and e-commerce transaction solutions to the meetings industry. With a comprehensive suite of Internet-based attendee at·tend·ee n. One who is present at or attends a function. See Usage Note at -ee1. attendee Noun a person who is present at a specified event Noun 1. management and distance learning solutions, including SeminarCast [TM] webcasting, iAttend [TM] online registration, iJoin [TM] membership services, iBuy [TM] online merchandising and iPromote [TM] online promotion, SeminarSource.com provides a one-stop source for national trade associations, professional societies, and Fortune 2000 companies that hold large meetings for the purpose of continuing education and knowledge transfer. |
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