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CCTVCOM is the internet portal of the largest professional television broadcasting media organisation in China. CCTVCOM was the official internet/mobile broadcaster for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, enabling millions of sports fans in mainland China and Macau to vividly experience Olympic videos built on Adobe Flash and Flex technology.

CCTV needed a solution that supported a large-scale, highly flexible, robust balancing network of high concurrent streaming media. Partnering with Adobe allowed them to deliver a compelling consistent Web 2.0 user experience, such as a 3D TV wall and seamless integration of viewing with live chat functions. The architecture involved a multi-city node origin/edge distribution mechanism.

During the games there were over 832 million visits, with over 46.6 million on-demand video playbacks delivered via Flash Media Server technology, with the maximum concurrent users of live chat room reaching 90,000 and over 10,000 video clips, including whole matches, highlights, extra new and interviews.

Read more about CCTV and FMS

Royal Philips Electronics have introduced Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional as a part of their training strategy. Connect’s Training and Meeting modules are being used to deliver training, video conferencing and web seminars to a potential audience of 135,000 registered users of its Healthcare Learning Management System.

Philips has integrated Connect into their in-house SCORM-compliant Learning Management System, using it as part of their healthcare education programs globally.

Additional information is available online from this press release.

A new study commissioned by the United Nations has found that most websites fail to meet basic accessibility guidelines. The study found that 78 per cent of sites reviewed used colour combinations of poor contrast, 87 per cent caused pop-up windows to appear without warning and 92 per cent failed to provide keyboard shortcuts. Designing websites that are usable and accessible to a broad range of users has always been a focus at webqem. We design and code all sites to the minimum W3C conformity of ‘A’, which inlcudes XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS2 and DOM based scripting.

To read more about accessbility and usability on the web follow the links below.

• Sydney Morning Herald article: Behind closed doors
• W3C Web accessibility guidelines
• International Day of People with Disabilities

ZDNet recently featured an article on Fone Zone’s implementation of Adobe Connect, a solution that was recommended and implemented by webqem. Fone Zone had, in the past, trained employees using PowerPoint. The impetus had been on Fone Zone’s employees to go online and download the presentations themselves. webqem’s solution using Adobe Connect, allows Fone Zone to deliver live PowerPoint content to mulitple employees at once. Read the whole article here.

Computerworld recently featured an article about webqem’s implementation of Adobe Connect for ING Australia. The article explains the issues that ING Australia faced with their current training process and how Adobe Connect was able to streamline this process, by providing an ongoing help system that is contextual and relevant. Read the whole article here.

The Challenge

Hyundai Motor Company Australia had a requirement to assess 1400 technicians across Australia within a month. Their specific requirements were:

• Assessment for three different technician levels.
• Each assessment would be timed for 60 minutes and consist of 40 multiple choice questions that would be pulled randomly from its own unique pool of up to 120 questions.
• Each assessment would consist of varying quantities of questions, based on three levels of difficulty: easy, even and hard.
• Marking of the assessment would only occur once the participant had indicated that they’d completed or if the exam had timed out.
• Participants would be allowed to review the exam results once completed.
• The assessment participants would be tracked on their number of attempts.
• For Hyundai’s analysis, the solution also needed to collect data on the questions, such as how often a question was successfully answered and which answers were selected for each question.

The Solution

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Following the launch of their website, Loganholme Cinemas have launched their new HTML email showcasing their latest movies and special offers. Utilising a template that webqem created, each issue is easily edited and managed in-house using Adobe Contribute.

Mensheds is a uniquely Australian organisation dedicated to supporting the men’s shed movement and the needs of their communities. There are growing problems with men’s health. Isolation, loneliness and depression are now looming as major men’s health issues.Mensheds Australia provides direction and support infrastructure for the development of sustainable men’s sheds and their role as a catalyst in providing services to men and stimulating communities economic activities. (more…)

To advance we must understand. A challenging declaration but very appropriate when dealing with mental health issues in Australia.

One in four people will suffer from some form of mental illness in their lifetime. At the same time, it is fair to say that no other medical condition is surrounded by so much stigma, misunderstanding and ignorance. (more…)

Ripple Solutions is turning content into capability by using Macromedia products to implement, manage and monitor training programs. Ripple Solutions is a learning and development consultancy company. They manage the whole training lifecycle for systems upgrades or implementations on behalf of their clients. Ripple uses proven strategies and methodologies to turn content into capability by aligning learning strategy with business direction. Ripple works in partnership with clients by guiding and mentoring organisations through the whole training process including design, delivery, management and administration of training programs.

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