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ConnectSolutions Live-Streaming Booming in Asia and the Pacific Rim

ConnectSolutions continues to have great success with live web collaboration in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Over the last three years, 10 of our Top 20 countries, as measured by number of site visits and by total time usage, are Asia-Pac Countries.AsiaPacRim

Streaming live, HD video usage has come through private, secure broadcasts from our enterprise clients, as well as large-scale public events.  Our largest public event was the US State Department’s Town Hall with Chinese Youth, that was streamed live from Shanghai last November.

Additionally, ConnectSolutions events with Asia-Pac vary in audience size.  Secure web casting is frequently used for small team meetings, medium sized seminars, and large broadcasts. The ConnectSolutions Podium experience includes interactive features, on a secure, reliable network, that reaches audiences into the thousands.  The Presidential Town Hall event, for instance, had over 9000 viewers.

In the last three years, the largest users in Asia-Pac, were China, India, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, New Zealand, Pakistan and Taiwan.

In addition to our Global Top 20, ConnectSolutions also has an excellent track record in live streaming to South Korea, and all of South East Asia.ObamaInChina

Additionally, city statistics continue to show active use in Asia. Of our Top 20 international cities, 16 are in Asia-Pac. Only London, Paris, Sterling and Ottawa were able to crack the top 20, with London the highest at 7th.

For more information about secure, reliable, live streaming video around the globe, please visit this link.

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ConnectSolutions CEO Interviewed by Mixergy

Andrew Warner of Mixergy recently interviewed CS CEO/Co-Founder Michael Fitzpatrick. You can find the full interview here.

Michael and Andrew discuss the history of ConnectSolutions,  from the acquisition of venture capitol money, the signing the company’s first client, the track to profitability, and the continuing growth of the company.

In the interview, Michael talks about ConnectSolutions commitment to “insane, passionate customer service” for our customers in enterprise and government.  He also talks about the time commitment and sacrifice required of entrepreneurs, “every 3am phone call — we know about it.”

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Project Unicorn: The Documentary

As promised, the long awaited Project Unicorn documentary is now available to the public.

This heartwarming tail will explain the history, and inspiration for this important labor of love.

For more information about our muralist, or to charter your own Corporate Unicorn, please visit the website of Micho P. Wong.  She has demonstrated great patience, and an ability to empower those with little painting experience or ability, to create breathtaking works of art like the Unicorn mural.  Her website also features her more serious artistic work.

If this looks like the type of place you would like to work, please visit the ConnectSolutions Careers page.

Don’t forget to follow ConnectSolutions on Twitter @CSPodium, or become a Facebook fan of ConnectSolutions.

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Project Unicorn

While ConnectSolutions co-founder/CEO Michael Fitzpatrick was out of the office, the rest of the staff at ConnectSolutions embarked on an important mission to renovate his office.

Some have argued that this endeavor, dubbed “Project Unicorn”, was in retaliation to Michael (allegedly) hiring an Austin Powers impersonator to provide a singing telegram to our CTO, and fellow co-founder, on his birthday. No one has gone on the record either confirming or denying this motive.

The aformentioned Austin Powers impersonator

The aformentioned Austin Powers impersonator

Local San Francisco muralist Micho was commissioned to design the unicorn mural, while other staff organized the procurement of important hardware, like the pink “Inbox”, the Jonas Brothers Pillow, and the Twilight poster.  Additionally, staff from our office around the country were kind enough to ship props to headquarters, to be incorporated into this artistic display.

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Micho puts Operation Unicorn into action

Aside from the leadership, skill, and tolerance of Micho, this was effort by the entire ConnectSolutions team.  All the creative work on the windows, and the non-unicorn walls poured out of the hearts and minds of staff at ConnectSolutions.  When you see those walls (coming in a follow-up post), I think you’ll agree that this was truly a labor of love.

Michael's Arrival...

Michael's Arrival...broadcast to our remote employees in HD using ConnectSolutions Podium

Keep an eye out for a documentary on this important project.  I know you will find it both enlightening, and inspiring.

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Michael Fitzpatrick interviewed by Robert Scoble

Check out this great interview of ConnectSolutions CEO Michael Fitzpatrick. The interview was conducted by Robert Scoble from Building 43 and Scobleizer blog.

The two discuss the future of streaming video and web collaboration, and what sets ConnectSolutions apart from other competitors. Here are some highlights:

  • A premium, full-screen capable HD webcasting product, that works on PCs, Macs, and iPhones
  • Web collaboration in a secure environment
  • A discussion of how our customers have used social media like Twitter and Facebook to increase audience size
  • How ConnectSolutions’ focus on customer service helps ensure customer success by focusing on providing real-world customer solutions
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