bxbOnline Holds Hybrid Press Conference at ASAE

Today, the Virtual Edge Institute (VEI) announced it received a strategic investment from the Professional Convention Management Association. There was a virtual press conference with Michael Doyle, Executive Director of VEI; Deborah Sexton, CEO and President of PCMA; and Susan Katz, Board of Directors, PCMA and Director of Corporate Events and Travel, True Value Company. I’m including the slide presentation from the press conference as well as some images below. You can also read a message from Michael Doyle regarding the import of this strategic investment. VEI Receives Strategic Investment from PCMA View more presentations from Virtual Edge Institute   This is the opening screen before the virtual press conference began: This is an image during the live virtual press...

On October 6, 2011, the Virtual Edge Institute (VEI) held a virtual press conference to announce VEI received a strategic investment from the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). The 30 minute press conference presenters were: Deborah Sexton, President and CEO of PCMA; Susan Katz, Chairman, Board of Directors, PCMA and Director of Corporate Events and Travel, True Value Company; Michael Doyle, Executive Director, VEI. For slides and images: http://wp.me/p1aOSn-1nP share: Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

Training face-to-face event planners to produce virtual event extensions just ratcheted up a notch for the Virtual Edge Institute (VEI), as two prominent industry organizations donated a combined $150,000 to fund educational programs and scholarships for those wanting certification as Digital Event Strategists. That was the big announcement at the Virtual Edge Summit recently in San Diego. bxb Online, a marketing agency specializing in hybrid and online event strategies and experiences, announced a donation during the Virtual Edge Summit, Jan 9-11, in San Diego, to sponsor industry professionals in pursuit of advanced credentials in the digital event discipline. Freeman, the world’s leading provider of integrated solutions for face-to-face marketing, also pledged to the same cause, saying more and more of...

The advancement of virtual technology has made it possible to new facilities by combining operator operated teleconference and web presentation. The combination of the various simple tasks is grouped and unveiled as new online pres conferencing system, which helps in eliminating the logistics and other maintaining costs involved in arranging physical conferences. This advanced tool uses Adobe Flash streaming technology and facilitates the news maker speakers and journalists to focus on interactive dialogue exchanging easily. Though various online meeting providers are leading the virtual meeting and conferencing market, there is no appropriate tool for public or investor relations virtualization that can be equivalent to online press conference. Unlike many other online meeting service providing players in the market, who confuse...

During the 2012 PCMA Annual Meeting held on January 9, 2012, bXb Online announced that it is developing an innovative global online event platform (Network) to provide aggregated live and on-demand content for the B2B marketplace from one centralized location. Since then bXb has received vital feedback from leading events industry associations. While bXb utilized a variety of mechanisms to gather feedback from stakeholders, two Feedback Forums initiated jointly by American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), International Association of Events & Exhibitions (IAEE), and Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) have been the primary source for bXb’s feedback since January’s announcement. The first informative Forum was held on February 29, 2012 at ASAE in Washington, D.C. The second forum was held...