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Facilitate.com launches “Future of Distributed
Meetings” survey for Collaboration2003 Conference
Data will reveal whether distributed meetings are delivering
on productivity and cost benefits
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) – 9/16/2003
-- Facilitate.com, provider of collaborative meeting
software for problem solving and decision making, is
co-sponsoring the survey with Collaborative Strategies
LLC for the Collaboration2003 conference taking place
October 20-21 in Annapolis Maryland.
Distributed meetings are an emerging online collaboration
application that holds forth the promise of a compelling
return on investment (ROI) by reducing costs and increasing
productivity. This survey looks at usage and technology
adoption trends and asks the question “is distributed
meeting technology delivering on its promise?”
“Distributed meetings are an attractive alternative for organizations
who can no longer afford the time and expense involved in getting everyone
to the same place for a critical decision making meeting, ” commented
Julia Young, Vice President at Facilitate.com. “The question is whether
the technologies, processes and organizational behavior are mature enough
to sustain a change in the way we collaborate.”
“Real-time collaboration technologies like web
conferencing have experienced impressive growth in the past three years,
fueled mainly by applications like web seminars and web training,” said
David Coleman, Managing Partner at Collaborative Strategies, a collaborative
technologies and knowledge management consultancy. “We see future
growth coming from smaller structured meetings involving 5 to 20 individuals.
This survey will help us understand what the future meeting is going
to look like. ”
Distributed meetings allow a group to engage together in real-time but from different
locations, using voice, video and data technology as a means of accessing a
common agenda and content and interacting with other meeting participants.
Survey results will be reported at the Collaboration
2003 Conference. For more information about the conference
please visit www.Collaboration2003.com.
About
Facilitate.com
Since 1992 Facilitate.com, Inc. has specialized
in facilitation and collaboration software tools and
techniques that dramatically enhance meeting productivity.
Facilitate.com 7.5 helps
generate, capture and formalize ideas with tools for
brainstorming, categorizing, voting, surveying and
building instant documentation.
About
Collaborative Strategies LLC
Collaborative Strategies LLC (CS) is a San Francisco-based
research and management-consulting firm focused on collaborative technologies
and knowledge management (KM). Founded in 1988, CS provides strategic
consulting and research to facilitate the development and implementation
of tools and practices for collaboration and KM. For more information,
visit www.collaborate.com.
Contact Information:
Danuta McCall
805.682.1148
Danuta@facilitate.com
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