December 13, 2007 - 0 Comment(s)
This is posted on our company blog also, but I wanted to mention it again here. We’re really excited to be one of only 40 companies selected to present at the Southeast Venture Conference. There are some great companies presenting as well as some incredible keynote speakers, such as John Sculley (Apple and Pepsi), Jim Steele (Salesforce.com), Frank Bonsal (NEA), and many others.
The full press release is available here.
SEVC website is here.
July 9, 2007 - 0 Comment(s)
We’re getting ready to head up to Boston for the BbWorld ‘07 Users Conference. Not only are we exhibiting (booth #209), but we’re also partnering with Blackboard to provide mobile conference notifications and updates (as mentioned in a previous post). If you haven’t signed up yet, you can sign up here
If you going to the conference, please drop by our booth to say hi and meet the team. And just for being a loyal reader of the CEO blog, if you mention reading this post, we’ll give you one of our world famous clearTXT T-Shirts!. See you there.
April 16, 2007 - 0 Comment(s)
In case you missed the announcement on the company blog, clearTXT will be Blackboard’s exclusive partner and provider of mobile alerts for Bb Word ’07 in July. This is the best way for attendees to get reminders when presentations are getting ready to start, when schedule or room changes occur, and everything else happening at the conference.
We’re really excited to provide the service for a second time, and also that Blackboard is putting some muscle behind the service this year. The first time we offered the service was the 2005 Bb User Conference in Baltimore, MD. Blackboard was excited about us providing the service, but left most of the marketing and promotion up to us. We had a lot of people sign up, but Blackboard’s marketing efforts will probably result in many more subscribers this year. Blackboard’s a great partner and certainly knows how to market, so this should be a great event.
We received a lot of feedback in 2005, almost all of it positive. In general, people liked the reminders and the schedule updates the most. Reminders were sent to people 5 minutes prior to events starting with the event information, such as room location, title of the event, etc. With so much happening during the conference it’s easy to get distracted and lose track of time. The reminders ensured that people didn’t miss the events they were most interested in attending.
The schedule changes have obvious value - you certainly want to know if a presentation you’re on your way to see has been moved to a different location, the time has changed, etc. This year, we hope to add some other types of messages and make this a truly valuable service to attendees.
We’ll have more information, as well as the signup page, available soon. I hope everyone will sign up.
March 21, 2007 - 0 Comment(s)
I’ll be speaking at the 2007 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference tomorrow in Raleigh, NC. Yes, I know this is incredibly last minute, but I do have my reasons…not the least of which is we just moved this blog onto a brand new server and it was down during the migration. Here’s some info about the presentation…
TITLE: E-mail Is Dead? What’s A Teacher to Do?”
DESCRIPTION: By now you’ve read the stories ¬ e-mail is OUT and text messaging is IN. There are now more than 200 million mobile phone owners in the US who send more than 12 billion text messages a month (yes, that¹s billion, with a “b”). What, you don’t send and receive text messages? Your students sure do—a lot! Many students check their email just once a week, but send thousands of text messages every month. If you want to reach your students, you need to reach them on their mobile phones. This presentation will introduce you to clearTXT, the easiest and most effective system for communicating with your students and delivering alerts, announcements, assignments, and other information right to their mobile phones.
The presentation is at 5:30. Hope to see you there
