Webvent Platform Grows with Increasing Customer Base

Boston, MA, January 24, 2013 –

Our development team has been improving the Webvent's platform with feedback from our recent customers. The following new features just went live:

  1. You can choose from 3 types of 'Directory Listings'

Company Profile List.  This is the traditional way of displaying featured companies with premium profiles on top and basic profiles underneath in alphabetical order.

Categories with 3 top Company Profiles.  Per category, 3 company profiles rotate in the top 3 positions in that category.

Categories by Group.  In this appearance the categories are grouped together and the company profiles are listed when you select a category in a specific group.

With these different types of listings we can adapt more flexibly to different customer needs in terms of number of company profiles listed and sponsorship opportunities created.

2. We added a ‘Community Manager’ Role
In addition to the ‘Owner’ and the ‘Admin’ roles in any community we added the ‘Community Manager’ role.  Anyone with that role has access to all company profiles listed in the buyers guide, which adds tremendous flexibility in maintaining the content, and a central ‘go-to’ person in that community.

3. We made Improvements to the 'Manage Webcasts' process
These consist of:

UI improvements – more icons, better instructions

Host & Registration process improvements. It is clearer now when a webcast is hosted using a third party web conferencing tool, or when using Webvent hosted services.

Presenter Checklist – presenters can upload their documents and accept your Terms and Conditions on their own.

Manage Teamwork improvements.  Teamwork between multiple organizations – the Association, the Media Sales Organization, the Presenter, and the Webcast Hosting Organization- is now more efficient.

4. Communities can offer 'Category' level sponsorships
In addition to the existing Webinar and Community sponsorships, customers can now offer “Category”- level sponsorships for more specific targeting by suppliers and advertisers.

5. We also made several small adjustments that our dedicated users will notice

Products Showcase now lists upgraded companies’ products first

Product title links to the company profile page

Customers can add their own Google Analytics profile account ID to track their community web traffic

Company Profiles include their external Web Site URL under their “Information” module

Our corporate web site has been upgraded at www.webvent.tv with new Home, Products, and Customers pages

About Webvent
Webvent creates online marketplaces for Associations, Trade Shows, Publishers, and other B2B environments.  Based on Webvent’s Adaptive Media Network technology we allow presenters to demonstrate thought leadership to interested audiences, and advertisers to leverage their most important marketing assets.  With a platform that adapts to our customer’s needs, Webvent can provide new sources of sustainable revenue, audience value, and supplier engagement to your organization.

The American Academy of Audiology Launches the Audiology Solutions Network

Reston, VA, December 10, 2012–

The American Academy of Audiology today launched the first of its kind “Audiology Solutions Network”, where suppliers can share their products, expert personnel, content and media with the Audiology marketplace year-round.

The Audiology Solutions Network is built upon Webvent’s Adaptive Media Network technology, that leverages the relevant content from each supplier’s website, YouTube channel, Social media feeds, Blog – filtered by the keywords that are relevant to each individual user in the Audiology community. Audiologists now have one place to shop and compare different suppliers – within a community that understands their needs as only expert peers can. 

The Audiology Solutions Network is available through the Quick Links on the American Academy of Audiology website or at www.audiologysolutionsnetwork.org/sites

For suppliers, a company profile in the Audiology Solutions Network places your business in front of audiologists worldwide, with yearlong visibility. It allows your organization to use thought leadership, social media and your existing Website content to reach new customers and accelerate the sales process.

About American Academy of Audiology
The American Academy of Audiology is the world's largest professional organization of, by, and for audiologists. The active membership of more than 11,000 is dedicated to providing quality-hearing care services through professional development, education, research, and increased public awareness of hearing and balance disorders. 

NeuroLeadership Institute and ASTD deliver the first ever Brain-Based Learning Virtual Summit

Alexandria, VA, December 6, 2012– 

On Tuesday, December 4th, The NeuroLeadership Institute and American Society for Training & Development delivered the first-ever Brain-Based Learning Virtual Summit - a full day virtual conference with five presentations from leading academic experts in brain-based learning, developed especially for corporate learning and development practitioners.

ASTD’s Juana Llorens, Community of Practice Manager L&D, moderated the presentations and stated, “The Brain-Based Learning Virtual Summit exceeded my wildest stretch goals – for attendance, participation, content, and performance of everyone involved in making this inaugural event a huge success. THANK YOU to all who attended and worked on the virtual summit – and look for more events like these from ASTD in the future!”

Hosted on the Webvent for Webinars platform, the virtual summit signed up 939 people, including 122 participants from 41 countries outside the United States.  521 attendees joined live throughout the day, coming and going based on their local schedules and sessions of interest.  All of the sessions were recorded and are available for 90 days at www.astd.org/webcasts.  Additional content from the presenters is available at www.neuroleadership.org/astd-virtual-summit. 

David Rock, Co-Founder & Director of The Neuroleadership Group, kicked off the summit with the opening keynote session, followed by four academic thought leaders and a closing message from Tony Bingham, CEO of ASTD.  Presentations included:

• Make Learning Sticky - Grace Chang, Ph.d. (UCLA)
• Create New Habits: The neuroscience of goal setting and behavior change – Elliot Berkman, Ph.d. (University of Oregon)
• Peak Performance for Trainers: The neuroscience of managing your mental state - Matt Lieberman. Ph.d. (UCLA)
• Create More 'Aha' Moments That Embed Deep Learning - Josh Davis, Ph.d. (Columbia University)

About NeuroLeadership Institute The NeuroLeadership Institute helps individuals and organizations fulfill their potential through better understanding how the human brain functions, at the level of individuals, teams and whole systems. 

About American Society for Training & Development 
ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world's largest association dedicated to workplace learning and development professionals. ASTD's members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in more than 120 U.S. chapters and with more than 20 international partners.  Members work in thousands of organizations of all sizes, in government, as independent consultants, and suppliers.

The Job Search Solution Launches Free Webinar Series

Dallas, TX, November 8, 2012 – The Job Search Solution launched in July 2012 as a custom Webvent community site, targeted toward people looking for jobs.  Now, in addition to a series of tutorials, books and on-demand videos, job seekers have a free webinar series available to help them find a new job.

If you are looking for a job or soon may be, join Tony Beshara for a FREE 60-minute webinar on the Top 10 Reasons You Might Have Trouble Finding a Job (and how to combat them).

Mark your calendar:  Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:00PM CST.
In this webinar you will learn how to deal with these questions:

• How do I get started finding a job?

• Why can't I get enough interviews?

• Why can't I get any follow-up interviews?

• Why won't they make an offer?

• What if the offer is not what I want?

Tony is the author of The Job Search Solution, a fail-safe system that has helped more than 100,000 people find a new job.  With the Job Search Solution, you won't have to worry about results.  This system is not theory.  It's practical, in the trenches, reality!

Learn more about the Job Search Solution at www.jobsearchsolution.com

SCRS – The New Trade Association for Clinical Sites Grabs Spotlight

Rockville, MD, November 1, 2012 –
The recently held annual Site Solutions Summit in Palm Beach, Florida was a high-energy gathering of 500 clinical trial professionals culminating with a big announcement -- the formation of the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS).  This new trade association is intended to provide a much-needed collective voice and a community for global investigative sites, which are anxious for a place at the table as the clinical trials industry works to improve operational efficiency.

The Site Solutions Summit Resource Guide Network, hosted on a Webvent Adaptive Media Network, provides the industry’s most dynamic supplier to audience marketplace and has been renamed to SCRS Resource Guide Network.  Whether you are a Site, Sponsor, Contract Research Organization (CRO), or other clinical research business, you can continue to find the services you need to succeed there, right now.

About SCRS
The Society for Clinical Research Sites was founded in 2012 in response to the growing need for a trade organization to represent the voice of research sites within the clinical research enterprise. Christine Pierre, the founder of the Site Solutions Summit, was motivated, along with other research professionals, to provide sites with resources, mentorship, and new ideas through a membership organization dedicated to providing the sites both a voice and community.

NOB – Dutch Education Worldwide Launches Webinar Series

Voorburg, The Netherlands, October 1, 2012
NOB – Dutch Education Worldwide launches a webinar series targeting administrative boards and educational staff of Dutch schools abroad.  Built upon a Webvent standard community site, NOB sponsors free educational webinars to increase the quality of Dutch education abroad, and to exchange, collaborate, and learn from each other by sharing best practices between schools.

NOB invites NTC (“Dutch Language & Culture”) schools from all over the world to attend these webinars.  NOB typically runs each webinar twice, at different times, to meet the schedules of its global audience.  Anyone interested in hosting a webinar, or who has a suggestion for a topic, should contact Ingeborg Van Rooij.

About NOB
Thousands of Dutch children spend part of their childhood abroad.  When they return to the Netherlands, they (re-)enter the Dutch education system at anywhere from primary school to university level. The Foundation for Dutch Education Worldwide (Stichting Nederlands Onderwijs in het Buitenland, or NOB) is a non-profit organization that has been facilitating their smooth transition into the Dutch education system since 1980.  The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has commissioned NOB to promote and support high standards of Dutch education for Dutch-speaking children around the world.

ASTD Webcasts Reach Nearly 50,000 Registrants Annually

ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world's largest association dedicated to workplace learning and development professionals.

Webvent produces over 80 webcasts a year for ASTD.  Roughly half of these have over 200 attendees, with occasional audiences of up to 1000 people – all interested in expanding their knowledge of emerging learning technologies, making business decisions based on best practices, pursuing the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) credential, or simply expanding their professional network in learning and development.

“Producing webcasts for multiple departments or communities of practice can be challenging.  Many people are involved in managing the relationship with the presenters, managing the events calendar, scheduling / hosting / moderating the webcasts, finding the right sponsors, etc.  Webvent uniquely offers ASTD a central application from which they can manage these processes as a team”, says Rick Borry, President of Webvent, Inc.

“To ASTD the real value is not just that we don’t have to worry about producing these webcasts, it also drives traffic to our Buyers Guide and our Store, which has become much more valuable for our sponsors and audiences”, says Brandon Finlen, Director of Marketing ASTD.

ASTD proves that many topics currently delivered as white papers, reports, or books become much more interesting when strengthened by a webcast delivered by the writer.  The huge number of attendees is clear evidence of that.  Visit webcasts.astd.org to see the ASTD site on Webvent.

For more information about Webvent and how we can help streamline your webcast calendar, please visit www.webvent.tv and Contact Us.