TMCnet and Light and Electric have Partnered for a Six Part Webinar Series focused on Cloud Communications

NORWALK, CT (June 24, 2010) -- Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC (News - Alert)), a global, integrated media company, and Light and Electric have announced a partnership to deliver a series of Webinar events focused on Cloud Communications. Sponsorships are available for each Webinar event.

 

Cloud based communications is undoubtedly one of the most talked about solutions today. Enterprise and SMB's are actively seeking cloud and hosted solutions. Carriers and service providers are looking at this growing market as a strong source of revenue, while the resellers and agents are actively forming partnerships to add these solutions to their portfolio of service they can sell to their clients.

 

Thomas Howe, Founder, Light and Electric, will be the speaker for each Webinar event. Combining his expertise with the input from the sponsors is sure to create a captivating event that will entertain and educate the audience.

 

"Partnering with TMC was a strategic decision based on their massive outreach across multiple platforms. TMC is a media powerhouse and provides the best outlet to reach the professionals who will benefit from cloud communications," said Howe.

 

"Howe is a foremost expert on cloud communications and there is no one better suited to deliver the content than he," said Rich Tehrani, TMC, CEO. "There is a definite need for cloud communications to enhance the way people do business. We are excited to offer educational opportunities that help business become increasingly efficient through the use of emerging technologies."

Here are the first six topics:

 

1.    Cloud Communications for the Enterprise: This webinar discusses common approaches, business cases and deployment issues with deploying cloud communications applications outside the firewall. A number of communications applications will be addressed, including hosted PBX (News - Alert), emergency notifications, IVR and CEBP applications. 

 

2.    Unified Communications (News - Alert) for Business Process Improvement: This webinar addresses the use of communications technologies to improve business processes by increasing process visibility, automating tasks and enforcing compliance from partners, employees and customers.  Approaches based on technologies from dominant premise vendors and hosted API providers are covered, along with business cases and concrete examples. 

 

3.    Introduction to Augmented Reality Applications for Business: This webinar talks about the exciting new area of augmented reality: the overlay of real time digital information on the real world. Today's augmented reality applications are delivered through mobile handsets for location based services, command and control applications, entertainment or mobile workforce enablement.  This webinar will focus on the basics of augmented reality applications, provides an overview of the dominant players and technologies and provides insight on how to this market will mature.

 

4.    Voice Mashups, APIs and Web as Platform Services: This webinar provides the technical manager with an overview of how and why communications applications are written using the Internet as a platform. A review of the differences between old-school and modern communications applications is provided, along with an introduction to API development and voice mashups. 

 

5.    Cloud Communications: State of the Art 2010: An overview of the business insights and technical issues identified by the 24 leading thought vendors who contributed to the free eBook of the same name. 

 

6.    Deploying, Securing and Monitoring Voice Enabled Applications: Development of voice enabled applications on the web presents new sets of problems for both telecom and web designers. This webinar discusses best practices that help your development team hit schedules, ensure performance and leverage the power of the web. 

 

Sponsorships are available for each event in the series. Companies interested in sponsoring any Webinar event can contact either Jim Spangenberg (companies beginning A-P or numbers) at 203-852-6800 x211 or by email at [email protected]; and Joe Fabiano (companies Q-Z) at 203-852-6800 x132 or by email at [email protected]. 

 

"TMC's webinars are a tremendous resource and an excellent way to provide training on highly relevant topics, and the fact that it is offered at no-cost to attendees is a huge benefit in these trying economic times" said Tehrani. "Webinars are also a great way to introduce vendors to possible customers in a mutually beneficial and informative manner that often leads to productive relationships."

 

TMCnet Webinars feature live, interactive presentations covering relevant topics, presented by top industry executives. Attendees watch and listen to the presentation as it happens over their computer, and have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker(s) in real-time. The TMC Webinar program typically attracts 350 to 500 registrants per event.   

 

All TMCnet Webinars are archived and available On-Demand for up to 18 months.

For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com. 

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two million unique visitors each month on average worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet has ranked within the top 3,500 in Quantcast's Top U.S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation's top .03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO (News - Alert)); 4GWE Conference and M2M Evolution (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); Digium|Asterisk World (in conjunction with Digium (News - Alert)); and Smart Grid Summit (in conjunction with Intelligent Communication Partners).

TMC also serves technology professionals with industry-specific Web sites: IT.TMCnet.com, 4G-wirelessevolution.TMCnet.com, M2M Evolution.com, Smart-Grid.TMCnet.com, Smart Products Ecosystem, Robotics.TMCnet.com, Cable.TMCnet.com, Satellite.TMCnet.com, Green.TMCnet.com, Healthcare.TMCnet.com, and Education.TMCnet.com. 

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. 

About Light and Electric

Light and Electric catalogs and discovers business communications best practices through real world experience.  By aggregating the experiences of our customers, we can provide expert advice about which techniques work, and which ones don't.  Our years of experience writing voice mashups and communication enabled applications provide a head start to your solution, reducing risk, shortening schedules and increasing the quality of your project.

Our team will work with yours, evaluating your current project and identifying which communications enhancements make the most sense for your objectives and goals.  We can assist you in selecting appropriate technology components for your budget and scale, and then lead or assist your implementation team to assure success and satisfaction.