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InfoComm 08 registration is open. Be sure to enter VIP Code VPBX1 for your chance to win a new Apple™ iPhone®! Click here for complete rules and regulations. No purchase necessary. Open only to registered attendees of InfoComm 08. Ends 6/20/08. Apple and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Apple is NOT a Sponsor of or affiliated in anyway with this promotion. Sign up for your Super Tuesday sessions, Institute for Professional Development and InfoComm Academy sessions before they sell out. ♦ Interactive Multimedia Collaborative Communications Alliance at InfoComm 08
IMCCA is also sponsoring a special session on telepresence. Telepresence technologies are rapidly addressing the need for virtual “in-person” meetings for corporate, government, education, entertainment, manufacturing and healthcare markets, among others. In this all new, full-day program, leading telepresence manufacturers will discuss present and future applications of telepresence technologies and services, and current telepresence users will share their case studies with attendees. You will be able to learn from experts how to capitalize on the latest high-end audio and visual communications that make “being there” a reality. This will be a must-attend program at InfoComm for anyone interested in understanding and embracing telepresence technologies. IMCCA is a sponsor of InfoComm’s United Collaborative Conferencing pavilion, showcasing companies offering solutions in video-, audio-, data- and webconferencing technologies. Exhibitors include: AGT, Arrive Corporation, GlowPoint, LifeSize, Radvision, Tegrity, Teliris and York Telecom, among many others.
♦ Ford Audio-Video Provides Olympic-Style Training
Does your company have a special training event that you would like share with us? Email us today.
♦ Calling all Dealers and Rental and Stagers! You are invited to take part in the 2008 Compensation & Benefits Survey, and for your participation, you will receive a FREE copy of the report once it is complete. Since 1998, InfoComm has been completing this report, and this is one of the most highly utilized reports in the industry. All responses are kept completely confidential and anonymous, and AWP Research, and independent research firm, will be collecting all data, and tabulating the results. A PDF of the questionnaire is available for download in order to collect the information needed before completing the survey. Once you’ve gotten all of the information together, please click on the link below to participate. Click here to participate now. If you have any questions about this survey, please feel free to contact us at marketresearch@infocomm.org.
♦ Installation Courses Hit the Road
This is the first of three regional offerings of the installation core knowledge courses for 2008. The next is in Atlanta, April 30-May 5. Regional courses are being offered to meet the growing demand for convenient installation training. Visit www.infocomm.org/education for more information about classes offered. Last call for AVIT211 AV/IT Integration for Technology Professionals, March 9-11, Fairfax, Va.
♦ InfoComm Member Roundtables Come to Florida Members in the Orlando and Tampa areas are welcome to attend free member roundtable events in their area. This is your chance to network, hear what InfoComm is doing to help service your needs, as well as share ideas for the future.
Roundtables are available only to InfoComm members. Click here to learn about other InfoComm membership benefits or apply today.
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On Tuesday, February 19, more than 100 employees, including Job Superintendents, Project Managers, Installation Technicians and Project Engineers, came from all divisions to the Ford Audio-Video (FAV) headquarters in Oklahoma City, Okla., for new hire training and continuing education. FAV holds its annual training session to ensure that Job Center personnel are educated on all aspects of project installation including safety standards, assembly techniques and project management. Newly hired employees participated in orientation-style classes, and later in the week all personnel attended classes and met with top vendors. Competitions were held throughout the training, in the spirit of the event’s Olympic theme, to energize the educational process. On Thursday night employees attended the “Medal Ceremony” which recognized individual excellence in job performance. Friday concluded the training with more competitions and team-building events. Bart Connor, Olympic gold medalist, related his personal experiences on the importance of training and being part of a winning team.
How many skids of equipment do you think it takes to put InfoComm’s hands-on, interactive installation courses on the road? If you guessed 13, you’ve probably been in the business for awhile. For the first time, InfoComm Academy provided both levels of their installation program outside of the Fairfax, Virginia classroom. This was made possible through the generosity of Randy Pagnan, CTS and rp Visuals, who provided enough space for training racks and toolkits for 27 students.
