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2012
Top 10 Telepresence Posts of 2011 From The KBZ Communications Blog
It’s the first week of 2012, which means it’s the perfect time to take a look back on some of the most popular posts of the past year from the Telepresence & Video Conferencing Blog. Let’s recap the most commented, read, and shared telepresence posts of 2011 and see what trends and interests dominated the industry over the course of the previous 12 months.
10. Use of Video Conferencing Surges Toward Widespread Adoption
This post from September was one of the first that we put together charting the growing evidence that video conferencing was about to reach the tipping point in terms of mass adoption. Driving this trend were the lowered costs of telepresence technology, improvements in mobile video conferencing, and increased interest in having employees telecommute at least one day per week across a wide range of different industries.
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2012
Top 5 Telepresence Trends for 2012
2012 is shaping up to be an exciting time for telepresence professionals, with many pundits claiming that this is the year video conferencing breaks through to the mainstream and gains the widespread consumer and corporate acceptance that has been growing closer and closer over the past 18 months. Let’s take a look at five of the top telepresence trends as we move into 2012 and see what direction the industry looks to be heading in the near future.
1. Digital Signage
Digital video communications – and digital signage in particular – have gained a significant foothold in advertising and campus communications (both academic and corporate). Projections for digital signage market share are through the roof, with industry spending predicted to reach $5.2 billion by 2016. The next 12 months figure to factor into that impressive growth rate in an important way.
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2011
Telepresence and Digital Signage Offer 21st Century Tools for Schools
Is telepresence technology at the leading edge of a fundamental change in how future generations of students will be educated – not just at the grade school level, but also in institutions of higher learning? As the world becomes more oriented towards visual representations of information, the chance for video conferencing and delivery systems to play a formative role in bringing a fresh perspective to learning looms large over the entire industry.
Students at Pymble Ladies College (PLC) offer an interesting example of how administrators and teachers alike are partnering with telepresence providers such as Cisco in order to create a blended curriculum that places a heavy emphasis on participatory, image-based learning. The PLC campus has embraced connectivity as part of an effort to engage children and teenagers (from kindergarten to grade 12) who have grown up in a world where mobile phones and internet messaging and browsing software allow for instant communications and easy access to information, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Pymble Ladies College has deployed an array of technologies – including Cisco MXE and Digital Signage – to enhance its telepresence strategy and create an environment where students feel comfortable interacting with digital video media.
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2011
New Solutions Extend Benefits of Video Conferencing to Educational Institutions
Adopting video conferencing technology in a classroom setting involves more than simply purchasing and installing cameras, displays, and codecs. Taking advantage of the benefits of video conferencing when it comes to teaching means choosing a solution that has been specifically designed to be flexible enough to accommodate the needs of modern educators, while still offering a simple interface, advanced customization features, and a variety of different deployment options.
A 2008 fire devastated the Main Building at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX. But the eschewing reconstruction gave administrators the opportunity to extensively integrate video conferencing and telepresence into the university’s technology infrastructure.
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2011
Video Conferencing In Academia Post Sparks Interesting Feedback and Discussion
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Last week’s blog post discussing the advantages of video conferencing in academia triggered a wave of response from this blog’s readership, particularly from members of the Video Conferencing Professionals LinkedIn group. Although the original post focused on areas where video conferencing has penetrated outside of the classroom setting, many of the comments tackled the distance learning concept and the effectiveness of using telepresence as a tool for engaging remote students.
2011
Moving Past Distance Learning – Video Conferencing in Academia
Video conferencing technology in the academic setting is often presented as a tool used by teachers to remotely connect with students. While it is true that the capacity for facilitating distance learning is one of the key advantages of video conferencing, telepresence also has many other benefits to offer learning institutions.
Research
Universities and colleges have always performed a crucial role in moving scientific and social development forward through a focus on research. Telepresence increasingly serves as a bridge between colleagues separated by geography who are working on the same project together, facilitating a level of communication and collaboration not possible over email or the telephone. This is especially important for researchers working at smaller schools where access to the same level of resources found at larger urban campuses is simply not available. Connecting rural academics with better-endowed institutions levels the playing field for researchers investigating areas of interest that are heavily dependent on specific equipment or subject matter experts.
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2011
Telepresence Technology Helps Rural Communities Retain Skilled Workers
It used to be that part of small town life meant watching some of the best and brightest members of your community leave for better employment and education opportunities in more populous cities. But now, thanks to the increased adoption of video conferencing technology, this particular trend might be on the verge of slowing down – or even reversing. In some communities, the advantages of video conferencing and advancements in technology has allowed for the creation of partnerships between universities and other educational institutions in order to provide high quality, professional-level classes. Such classes help professionals keep their careers on track without having to leave for the big city.
One such partnership has developed between the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Otero Junior College, which is located in La Junta, CO. The University of Colorado provides engineering and nursing courses via a telepresence link, which has had an important impact on the rural community’s ability to provide high level healthcare to its residents.
2011
Use of Video Conferencing Surges Towards Widespread Adoption
A rush of interest in video conferencing over the past several months has in turn led to increased media coverage of telepresence technologies, applications, and potential near-future growth. Video conferencing usage is predicted to rise in the small and medium business sector, while the growth of telepresence in education and research circles has also been tapped to continue its impressive rise.
An article published by AV Interactive (@AVMag) this past month included recent statistics concerning the use of video conferencing in university, continuing education, and research-focused institutions. 86 percent of these types of organizations expected to continue to see “significant” growth in how video conferencing is being used, both internally and when communicating with other companies and academic entities. The financial benefit associated with travel reduction was cited as being the most important positive aspect of adopting the technology.
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2011
Cisco Introduces 3 New Video Conferencing Products
One of Cisco’s goals for TelePresence in the video conferencing industry is to make it simpler and faster for companies and individuals alike to interact with video and make it an important part of their business operations. This includes improving the searchability of video content and making it easier to share within a business environment.
Cisco has recently announced a trio of new video conferencing products that together go a long way towards helping to ease video integration into corporate workflow. The first is the new Cisco TelePresence Content Server 5.0, which offers a host of improvements to traditional video conferencing. Most prominent is the ability to completely record all Cisco TelePresence video sessions and offer them as streaming content, which allows companies to improve the distribution of video, via intranet as well as through a corporate web presence. Cisco TelePresence Content Server 5.0 supports resolutions of up to 1080p at 30 frames per second, and is compatible with the Cisco Quad social software platform.
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2010
Video Conferencing Empowers Public Safety Agencies
During natural or manmade disasters, time is of the essence, and face-to-face interactions provide a much clearer picture of what people are going through than phone calls, email, or text messages. Consequently, a growing number of public safety agencies rely on video conferencing equipment from TANDBERG, now part of Cisco, to streamline communications as well as enhance their training programs.
For example, the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) is responsible for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters in an 1,134-square-mile area housing 700,000 Alabama residents. The agency works with local government departments and private organizations to develop emergency response plans, and a desire to make sure that they all had a common understanding of what was occurring led to the deployment of TANDBERG video conferencing equipment. During Hurricane Gustav in 2008, the county used the system to coordinate placement of 7,000 evacuees, and as a result, a process that could have taken days or longer was completed in a matter of hours.
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