971:- I will limit my comments to the primary concept of the discussion (disclosure). Private companies do not divulge internal management figures (turnover, revenue and capitalisation) information to the general public, such information is limited to the private shareholders, the CFO and company directors. In WebTrain's case, it would need to release copies of all shareholder share certificates to a major reliable 3rd party for publication (for capitalisation). No private company does this. Not so with public companies. They must release this information, all trades and stock purchases are public information and revenue, expenses and the bottom line must be disclosed. It seems to me that the entire purpose of Knowledge (XXG) is to inform people about what they don't know about. That's why it is important to provide information about notable private organizations that have earned 3rd party attention and market space respect, especially when they do not have media influence.
735:(Robin Good) is in fact an expert. The articles are unsolicted, his group digs deep to review all contenders. Whereas magazines such as PCMAG, CNET, etc have an application process and decide who to publish, Robin gives organizations an equal chance, regardless of their power and influence. His team just just digs them up and provides an very very detailed analysis, complete with screen shots of all features. The site is the most prominant reviewer on the net for web conferencing. Not all he states is favorable either. Note he sells reviews to organizations that need the complete details and comparisons, but that does not make the articels biased, more so, the content must be valid and represent true 3rd party opinions in order to be marketable. The site does more than web conferencing reviews, it's pretty deep into reviewing RSS technology and Telecom articles as well.
782:), various universities and government site references - these sources would be considered reliable? BNET Business Network and PC Magazine references are 3rd party? The PC Magazine reference compares a small private Canadian company to the $ Billion dollar WebEx public company as a contender. This is notable. It also reflects how early the organization was in the web conferencing space from a historical perspective. Added a section regarding a failed reverse takeover reported by BNET (major 3rd party source). In regards to other improvements, content could be added about the CEO and chairman (many major 3rd party sources) - See
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Hi Ed. The masternewmedia.org site is not a self published site, we had no involvment in the review. The masternewmedia.org site documents most of the web conferencing platforms, it is an independent review site. I agree, we were not the first, but most certainly, not recent, we've been doing this
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Hi all, I am gathering citable notable references from colleges and universities that use our product, hosted from their .edu sites, but progress has been slow. I have also asked them and some organizations like Purple Heats and
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880:. Overall this article is clearly a promotional piece, containing vague and unsupported statements such as "The WebTrain concept was developed in 1998 by Gary Campbell for the purpose of reducing training costs for off-site business clients". The article content and style fails
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