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Mark Upton, specialist coach for the Adelaide crows, approached webqem for advice on how to solve their issues around reviewing game footage. Previously players and coaches had to watch the game together to gather feed back, which didn’t make efficient use of their time. The solution was eLearning, using Adobe Flash Media Server, LiveCycle Collaboration Service, Connect and Adobe Captivate Mark has created a remote access training environment and conduct regular training with interactive opportunities.

As a result, the Adelaide Football Club have streamlined access to training, greater flexibility for the team players and coaches to meet and discuss strategies in real time and improve retention of training information.

Read the full success story to find out more about how webqem helped the Adelaide Football Club

webqem is running a seminar on Adobe Connect focusing on driving down travel costs in your organization.

This event will include topics that will allow you to dramatically reduce training and travel costs while securely staying connected to people from all over the globe. We will show you how to create secure online meeting rooms within seconds, allowing you to communicate with greater frequency and quality and boost your audience attendance and participation. E-Learning, tracking and rapid content creation will also be covered.

The event will be running on the 15th May from 8am to 9:30am. It is to be  held at the Westin Hotel, 205 Collins Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000 . If you would like to attend please email Thomast@webqem.com or register online.

Moodle Learning management system.

We are pleased to have John Treloar, Director of Education at Adobe, presenting a paper on  how educational institutions are communicating and collaborating with their students in the 21st Century with Adobe Connect.

We will also be demonstrating the newly released api plugin that integrates Adobe Connect with Moodle.

Join Larry Adler as he takes you through online web conferencing and self paced online learning. You’ll get all the tips and best practices in driving efficient and effective communication online.

Larry will also show you how Adobe Connect Professional can work within your organisation to cover the spectrum of communications tasks:
Live meetings, seminars and instructor led training on

- On-demand presentations

- E-Learning and tracking

-Rapid content creation

This event will take place on the 10th of June from 12:00pm-1:00pm AEST. If you wish to attend this event, register online, select Rapid E-Learning in Education with Adobe Connect Professional.  There are many other eSeminars for you to take part in and help you refine your skills.

In times like these, organizations need to do more than talk to their custom ers — they need to engage them. Join the webqem team for a FREE E-Seminar on how your organization can create outward-facing applications that overcome common customer challenges — like complex forms and security fears — to provide easy-to-use and impactful experiences that truly engage.

We’ll explore how Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite can help you:

• Improve your customers experience, simplify processes,and provide better service
• Connect easily to your back-end systems to automate the end-to-end process
• Work seamlessly with applications that your customers already have, like Adobe Reader and the Adobe Flash Platform

The event will be running on the 2nd of June  from 12:00pm-1:00m. It is to be  held in the comfort of you own chair via a Adobe Connect meeting room. If you would like to attend please email Thomast@webqem.com or register online.

Webqem attended the AHRI National Convention in Melbourne on the 10^th and 11^th May. It is the biggest HR and people management event in the Asia Pacific region. We had the opportunity to share new ideas and converse with HR professionals from all over the world.

At the exhibition we demonstrated Adobe Connect and of the shelf training with Adobe eLearning suite. Many delegates from the event were very interested in how they could cut down travel costs with Adobe Connect and create eLearning experiences that engage audiences with interactivity, video, audio, and powerful visuals.  These products have been proven successful, especially in the current economic climate.

webqem would like to thank AHRI for inviting us and allowing us to share our opinions and expertise. We look forward to attending next year.

webqem is running a seminar on Adobe Connect focusing on driving down travel costs in your organization.

This event will include topics that will allow you to dramatically reduce training and travel costs while securely staying connected to people from all over the globe. We will show you how to create secure online meeting rooms within seconds, allowing you to communicate with greater frequency and quality and boost your audience attendance and participation. E-Learning, tracking and rapid content creation will also be covered.

The event will be running on the 15th June  from 8am to 9:30am. It is to be  held at Novotel, 200 Creek St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, AUS. If you would like to attend please email Thomast@webqem.com or register online.

The power of Adobe Connect Pro has found its way into a unique not-for-profit organisation by the name of Mensheds Australia. Mensheds Australia specialise in the health and well-being of men through local organisations that act like a social groups aka a ‘Men’s shed’.

One of the biggest challenges faced by Mensheds Australia was reaching men throughout the country, in particular in remote areas. Furthermore, even where men’s sheds have been established, successfully managing and maintaining them was particularly hard to achieve from head office in Sydney as each men’s shed requires resources, training, and detailed information 24/7.

So, thanks to the team at webqem, Mensheds Australia has implemented a very successful solution – Adobe Connect Pro. From an administrative perspective, Connect Pro has drastically reduced the cost of delivery, travel, training, and Occupational Health & Safety compliance. Explains managing director Peter Sergeant, “When you consider the thousands of documents and information packages used by Mensheds Australia to communicate and collaborate with individual men’s sheds and our partners everywhere, Acrobat Connect Pro is worth approximately $5 million to our organisation.”

Now Mensheds can conduct online meetings to remote areas via Connect Meetings. They can provide access to an plethora of information via the Connect Pro Training module, and can easily create engaging mulitmedia presentations via Adobe Presenter.

The feedback from supporters and stakeholders on the organisation’s portal, www.mensheds.com.au has been outstanding and exceeded all expectations. “Simply put, without Acrobat Connect Professional, we would not have been able to continue with our work at Mensheds,” concludes Sergeant. “We couldn’t deliver the volume of information needed anywhere near as efficiently and compellingly without the Adobe software.”

For more information about this success story, you can view a full article online.

So it seems like the world of online education is growing. Yes, this is no surprise, as the internet is taking over our lives, but more surprising is online education for K-12 students, which according to Jodi Church’s online article ‘Is online education more effective than traditional learning?’, is becoming more prominent.

Recent studies have proven the benefits of online education, as Church writes: “According to a recent study conducted by SRI International for the US Department of Education, online learners perform slightly better than students in traditional face-to-face classrooms.” A key outcome of this report is that it will put an end to the myth that online learning is inferior to traditional learning, as well as generating greater interest in developing technology for education.

A client of webqem’s – Kaplan University, is at the forefront of developing online education. Kaplan is renowned as a giant in online university degrees, and is now offering programs for students in grades 6 to 12 – an area previously untouched by online education. One of Kaplan’s key technologies for online education is Adobe Connect Pro and Presenter, which they use to conduct online meetings and to develop high impact online presentations.

So how much further will online education grow? It seems like we have only scraped the surface of the possibilities as many education institutions are only now  just adopting online education, so lets just say there is still a long way to go.

Leading kitchen retailer – Australian Kitchen Industries (AKI), is prospering from the power of Adobe Connect Pro. In recent years, AKI has significantly grown and prospered into a large franchise. With this growth, communicating with, and training it’s geographically dispersed network of franchisees had become particularly difficult and more costly. To streamline training and communications company-wide, AKI found a cost-effective, powerful solution: Adobe Presenter and Adobe Connect Pro software.

Since implementing Connect Pro, AKI have noticeably benefited from the high-impact web conferencing and ease of access that eLearning provides. Over 400 people across the company are now using Connect Pro to conduct online meetings and training. The solution has been so successful that it, amazingly, paid for itself within the first seven months. The team from webqem were instrumental in implementing this solution, which involved: software procurement, installation, hosting & training. A full report is available online.