1st Contract signed for teleconferencing

It is done!!!

Premiere Global will be providing the teleconferencing part of the DAD2007 solution this year.

With several global offices, contract with several Tier 1 telecomms suppliers and multiple bridge sites, we are confident that they will deliver what we require for the project.

Zoe and I are going to meet Farrukh Nasiri, Lyndsay Cook and one other on the 27th July in London.

If you have any questions re teleconferencing, then do not hesitate to contact me on 0845 174 6060.

What have I contracted for:

30,000 minutes of inbound calls on a Norwegian Freephone number 800 13458
10,000 minutes of inbound calls to UK/International DDI on +44 (0) 208 602 0835
5,000 minutes of inbound calls from the project team
3,000 minutes of dial out calls to performers
Recording of the event
Multiple operators for the project team and listener queries
Marketing materials
(free umbrella if I can get one!)

The inbound and outbound calls are linked via a 'bridge', hardware which allows multiple telephone lines from multiple locations to be connected together in one virtual room.

Subconferences are where the bridge is used to connect two or more people outside the main conference and then allows them to be transferred seamlessly into the main conference.

For example:
Prior to each performance, one of the project team and their operator go into a sub-conference. Looking at the schedule, the project team member asks the operator to dial out to the next performer. Once connected, the three of us have a chat about the performance, how it will be introduced, and the wrap up. When the current performer finishes in the main 'auditorium/concert' to which the listeners are connected, the operator transfers the performer into the main auditorium/concert, introductions are made and the performance begins.

From a concert/performance point of view, think of the main teleconference as the auditorum, and the sub-conference as the backstage dressing room where performer get ready. Audio streaming is the equivalent of a live radio broadcast.

Until next time

GO GO GO

The contract is complete, agreed and SIGNED. It's all systems go. Stavanger 2008 are now officially hosting the second DIAL-A-DIVA event.

Also, I have been looking into google documents - spreadsheets and calendar as a good way of syncronising our activities. I'll come back with more details, in the mean time excel is fine.

contract almost signed...

We are so close to the starting line. Greg and I have been working over the last months to prepare and finesse the proposal for Stavanger 2008. There have been lots of ups and downs but it seems it's almost done with this phase.

Today sees the first tentative (virtual) meeting with the designer about the website redesign and print and first meeting with Cat Lee who will be the primary research assistant. While Cat was over we listened through some of the event recordings and the re-recordings from the last DIAL and suddenly it seemed like a reality, so good to be doing this again, making it better, more inclusive and more ambitious. Exciting months ahead!