vcopious is a virtual environment software platform that enables companies to connect with their global communities to build brands, increase lead generation and engage target audiences. By capturing relevant user metrics in real time, vcopious enables companies to gain actionable insights for applications ranging from product launches, customer service portals and hybrid conferences, to employee training and virtual events. vcopious software can be deployed in a licensed, hosted or SAAS environment.
The vcopious software platform enables enterprises to seamlessly connect relevant internal assets, including E-commerce, CRM, social media, customer records, learning systems and contact centers, while collecting every user activity within the platform. vcopious is a leading cost-reduction and revenue enhancement strategy for multinational organizations across industry categories. Let our flexible solution build your virtual presence. vcopious. Do anything: Virtually! For more information, please visit www.vcopious.com.
Companies could cut emissions and save millions of pounds by replacing business travel with virtual meetings. However the allure of time out of the office stops people using such technology, a study suggests. Researchers studied two virtual conferences and found they had considerably smaller costs and carbon output compared with their real-life equivalents.
Results of a five-year study on telemedicine showed that patients can be treated virtually by physicians as effectively as if the patients made physical visits to the doctor’s office. In another finding, the remote treatment also improved doctor-patient communication.
Keith Quinn, senior education and workforce development advisor at the Scottish Social Services Council, is developing mobile delivery of interactive learning to train Scotland’s entire social service workforce. He is getting impressive results from trialling some novel delivery platforms – including PlayStation Portable game consoles. He tells UKAtv’s Helen Olsen that the cost of just one day’s ‘traditional’ face to face training was enough to invest in technology that could be rolled out to all employees whenever needed.
Big changes are brewing in how America works right now[ and over the past few years]. The financial threats of lower-priced competition from overseas, the strengthened effectiveness of a virtual business model and a fresh American desire for better quality of life have caused the extreme work shift. Virtual business, remote work, telework, distributed work, virtual staff like executive assistants, virtual teams– call them what you want– are now part of the corporate vocabulary.
An increasing number of K-12 students across the country are taking advantage of online learning options. Thirty states have full-time online learning schools open to students from districts statewide, while 40 states offer state-run virtual schools, according to Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning. Researchers project that by 2014 more than 10 million students will be taking virtual courses
Strong growth in the virtual worlds sector throughout 2011 saw total cumulative registered accounts reach 1,772m at the end of Q4 2011. This growth was driven by booming user bases from worlds such as Poptropica, Habbo, Moshi Monsters, Stardoll and Club Penguin.
We recently had an opportunity to see our platform in action at the Americas SAP User Group (ASUG) in Orlando. Bringing together companies from around the globe that use SAP Business Objects Applications, the conference was built to be both educational and a showcase for new improvements and features for the platform. ASUG used the vcopious solution to create a virtual version of the event for those unable to attend, archive presentations and interviews to make them available on demand, and also to create a library for thepresentation materials and literature available used in each of the sessions.
If you use Google Earth to look up the Salfords Lads Club in Manchester, England, you’ll find a famously coiffed squatter in this virtual world. Punch in “St Ignatius Walk, M5 3RX” on 3D Buildings mode and you’ll see a pixelated incarnation of Morrissey, The Smiths’ loud-mouthed pontificator, forever standing smugly.
A total of 101 volunteers aged 58 to 99 took part in the Cybercycle Study. The results, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, showed a marked difference between the two groups after three months.
Newly developed computer software combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a fetus may help physicians better assess a woman’s potential for a difficult childbirth. Results of a study using the new software were presented November 29 at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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