WebMeet B – Hosting Your Own Webinars
Quick check your IN-BOX!! How many invitations have you received this week (or this month?) to attend a webinar about a great new product or service?
Have you taken the leap and checked out the hottest new craze in “Meet-And-Greet” sales promotions?
If you haven’t, then it’s time to check it out!
Forum Communications lets you host your own Marketing Webinar Events
with WebMeet B
browser-based web-conferencing.
You may already be implementing this hot new sales medium, but paying a fortune every month for a conference service.
Are you a slave to your conference service, paying thousands each month, just for the web conference seats?
With Forum’s proven reliability, our web and voice conferencing products continue to meet the highest standards in the industry, with new features and options added to meet your changing needs. You owe it to yourself to compare what you are spending now for web conferencing. You can save $5-10,000 each month.
Sympozium/Blast-911 Moves Forward
Forum Communications products continue to evolve to meet and exceed your needs. As we demo and install our Sympozium product line for more customers, your feedback helps us to stay leading-edge:
The Sympozium-based products now include the ability to enter a DTMF code to acknowledge receipt of an emergency message and indicate their preference. For example, the call recipient may be asked to press ‘1” if he/she will attend a meeting, press ‘2’ if not. The server automatically tallies the digits and summarizes the results and posts them for easy access.
Forum continues to work with all levels of first responders to provide our full menu of emergency communication, notification and first responder options.
An ElderCare Sandwich
Just like death & taxes are unavoidable, for most of the Boomer generation, assuming responsibility for an elderly parent, disabled relative or spouse is inevitable. Critical decisions are on the line. Emotions, medication and judgment may cloud the decision-making process. For many, the challenges have already begun.
Whether you are an only child, or come from a larger family, or a mixed family, an event like a stroke or fall or dementia, can require long term care. A husband and wife may need to be separated based on care requirements. A father’s natural children may prefer to move Dad closer to their homes. If Mom’s children are his stepchildren, it is natural that they would want Mom near them for regular visiting and medical decisions. If an estate, a home and mortgage are involved, all parties are advised to hire legal counsel to see what the local laws (and social security) stipulate concerning disposition of the couples finances. Not everyone will see eye-to-eye on what is in the patient’s best interests.
Who has guardianship of which parent? Who has medical power of
attorney? Or standard power of attorney? If you have been through
this you know that it can be extremely complicated. With so many
people and emotions involved at a time like this, everyone wants
to be fully informed and insure that the patients’ rights
are being protected. But it is also essential to get as many of
the affected parties together as soon as possible because hospitals
and insurance restrictions usually require an immediate decision
about aftercare placement.
The Mediator II from Forum Communications is an ideal tool for law
firms that handle eldercare and family law. Say one sister lives
in New York State, her brother lives in Minneapolis. Say their step
brother lives in New Mexico and the parents both live in Wisconsin.
The courts may assign an advocate for each of the parents. That’s
a lot of family and a lot of different lawyers. One parent may be
of sound mind, but not able to care for the other.
The Mediator II lets each of the children and their lawyer break-away from the main conference call for a sidebar. A judge or mediator may want to talk privately with the parent, or with the individual children. With point-and-click control, the Mediator II gives the Judge/Host power over the main conference and the individual sidebar calls.
The Mediator II was presented to the Texas Association of Mediators at a recent conference in Austin, Texas.
Business Campus Security
Since before 9/11, Forum Communications has played a very active role in providing emergency communications systems to government agencies, news media and regional utilities to stay connected in any type of crisis.
More and more business campuses are looking for ways to connect their security teams via Forum’s reliable ALERT products. The ALERT Plus system can be bundled with the Blast-911 to cover both immediate on-campus contacts AND provide voice/text messaging to the surrounding neighborhood.
In a major crisis, like Katrina, businesses and call centers transfer their business to alternate sites. The Blast-911 can be programmed to locate thousands of employees via text and voice to let them know that a Continuity Program had been implemented, particularly when that plan would activate their home offices, change their work assignments or require immediate deployment to another regional location.
The ALERT Plus rings to “must-answer” desks across the facility, to local first responders, to emergency radio and cell phone contacts for immediate coordination of efforts. Connecting every corner of a business campus lets the dispatcher or command center gather real-time status for better decision-making. An ALERT Plus emergency conference call provides the multi-point voice communications essential when personnel are in harm’s way, to clear them out of an area, or to assign the appropriate team and equipment to a “hot spot.”
The Blast 911 can be programmed to initiate the ALERT Plus call,
or the dispatcher can select which duty stations or support agencies
need to be involved. Forum continues to work with our military and
private sector customers to maintain our place as your single source
for first responder technology.
