April 16, 2004
The Competitive Edge
A newly announced monthly Kolabora Live! event is completely devoted to cover key trends, new technologies, best practices and marketing strategies in the conferencing, online collaboration and live presentation industries, is now open for registration. Targeted at companies, developers, marketing people and researchers, this new event showcases live interviews with industry and thought leaders, open floor Q&A and a focused report by Robin Good. Together with the Buyer's Review this is the second live event Kolabora is devoting to support its mission as a conversation catalyst between the end users and these emerging industries. The Competitive Edge is scheduled for Friday April 30th at 12 noon EDT. Seats are limited. Access is free. Sign up here. More info. The event is sponsored by Communicast, Thinkofit and Conferzone.
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