We are pleased to share the news that one of our customers, CO.NX, has been nominated for an Adobe MAX Award. The U.S. Department of State developed CO.NX to connect U.S. experts with international audiences to better teach the world about the U.S., its policies, and people. Included in their program has been internet simulcasts of President Obama’s historic speeches in Egypt and Ghana earlier this year that provide a way for viewers around the world to experience the speechs in real time and augment that experience with collaborative features such as chat, real-time polls, integrated closed captions, and sharing of web links.
President Obama's Speech from Ghana
CO.NX, who runs their Connect Pro implementation on the ConnectSolutions QuickConnect platform, has had over 10,000 participants attend the over 200 events they ran last year. We are proud to have CO.NX as a customer and applaud the new standard they are setting in promoting transparency through citizen outreach and open dialog in government.
The CO.NX project is a well deserved finalist for the Adobe MAX Award in the public sector category. We encourage you to take a few moments and learn more about their Connect Pro usage here: http://max.adobe.com/awards/finalists/#public.
If you like what you see, please take a minute and vote for CO.NX here: https://www.adobemaxsubmission.com/viewer/?projectid=121.
You can also find CO.NX on Facebook and Twitter and experience an upcoming webchat first hand.
For federal employees, telework is a mandated option (read more about ConnectSolutions support of FISMA-compliant web conferencing), and with the productivity gains combined with the benefits of remote work in the face of pandemic flu concerns, a very logical option at that. It is good to see the continued support for telework by Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry and federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra:
“When you think about it, the president is really the teleworker in chief. He’s connected wherever he goes,” Berry said. “Yesterday was a good example: New York City in the morning, Pittsburgh in the afternoon and Washington at night. While the president has a little bit of a unique position, and everyone can’t have all of his communications gear, the technology is catching up to that.”
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The reality is that everyone does have access to sufficient communication systems to empower successful telework. We’ve been doing this for quite some time with thousands of federal employees, and look forward to continuing to expand upon these services with ConnectSolutions Podium for large-scale events and communication efforts as well.
ConnectSolutions has had the opportunity to support a variety of webcasts for President Obama through its partnership with the U.S. State Department and its highly successful CO.NX program, but we’ll have to work on providing him with his own personal virtual oval office meeting room as well.
Not sure if it is the case in your neck of the woods, but ads for the Connect Pro Connect and Conserve campaign have been popping up all over the Bay Area. Saw this ad on the side of a bus yesterday. The neatest part of Adobe’s campaign is that they donate $25 to schools to help them become greener every time someone signs up for a Connect Pro trial. So now’s the time to spread the word and tell your friends and colleagues about Connect Pro and get them to try it for themselves. Not only are you finding ways to help make them more productive, but you’ll be doing something good for the earth and for our youth.
Connect Pro Ad
Bit off-topic here, but this was too funny to pass on. I was driving up 101N from our Burlingame to Oakland office this morning, when I came upon one of the most absurd uses of a huge flat-bed truck I’ve ever seen:
Yes…that really is a single bike being transported on a gigantic flatbed towards San Francisco. So much for lowering carbon footprints with bikes.
