Comments on: Telepresence World Isn’t A Virtual Event? http://www.awidernet.com/2007/03/02/telepresence-world-isnt-a-virtual-event/ Cool New Marketing Technologies: Caught and Served Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:56:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Rob Everton http://www.awidernet.com/2007/03/02/telepresence-world-isnt-a-virtual-event/comment-page-1/#comment-2611 Rob Everton Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:13:06 +0000 http://www.awidernet.com/2007/03/02/telepresence-world-isnt-a-virtual-event/#comment-2611 I think it's a legacy behavior that won't change in our lifetime. Telepresence, a term that will hopefully dissolve as the technology becomes more commonplace, will have an effect however. Once people realize that you can sit across from a group of people, look one of them in the eye and address them when you're talking to them, and carry on a conversation where you forget the technology is even there - then you may see more business done this way. All the body language is captured - something that I feel is critically missing from Webex-style presentations. But this won't be pervasive for a long time. I think it’s a legacy behavior that won’t change in our lifetime. Telepresence, a term that will hopefully dissolve as the technology becomes more commonplace, will have an effect however. Once people realize that you can sit across from a group of people, look one of them in the eye and address them when you’re talking to them, and carry on a conversation where you forget the technology is even there - then you may see more business done this way. All the body language is captured - something that I feel is critically missing from Webex-style presentations. But this won’t be pervasive for a long time.

]]> By: Steve Kirstein http://www.awidernet.com/2007/03/02/telepresence-world-isnt-a-virtual-event/comment-page-1/#comment-2602 Steve Kirstein Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:27:56 +0000 http://www.awidernet.com/2007/03/02/telepresence-world-isnt-a-virtual-event/#comment-2602 Interesting point. We have all these first gen Webinar technologies (e.g. WebEx, Live Meeting, etc.) to save us from having to travel, and now we even have on-demand technologies so that we don't even have to convene at the same time to get the same messages and give feedback. Yet we still feel there's a value to face to face meetings. Perhaps it has to do with the need to meet 'a person' in order to spend a great sum of money on a purchase. Is that a legacy behavior that will eventually 'go away'? Interesting point.

We have all these first gen Webinar technologies (e.g. WebEx, Live Meeting, etc.) to save us from having to travel, and now we even have on-demand technologies so that we don’t even have to convene at the same time to get the same messages and give feedback. Yet we still feel there’s a value to face to face meetings. Perhaps it has to do with the need to meet ‘a person’ in order to spend a great sum of money on a purchase. Is that a legacy behavior that will eventually ‘go away’?

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