MSpace News & Events

Building Communities Event: June 22nd – 26th

MSpace is proud to be the main sponsor for the 2009 Building Communities event. The Building Communities Event was a 5 day exhibit in downtown Minneapolis. The event offers visitors a close-up view of the high-profile construction projects and initiatives that will shape the Twin Cities urban environment.

The exhibit is free and open to the public and is located in the North Star Center Food Court near the corner of 7th and Marquette in downtown Minneapolis. Using equipment provided by MSpace, exhibitors will feature videos and computer animation.     

Click here to go to the Building Communities Event Page 

MSpace Welcomes Ben Vanderheyden!

Ben is joining the MSpace team this summer as our marketing intern. He will be working closely with our vendors and team to coordinate our annual Summer Technology showcase along with conducting marketing research in our MSpace California office.

Ben will be a senior this fall at St John’s University and is working on his B.A. in Management. In past summers he’s teamed with his brother and two friends in launching The Look Painting, a successful painting company where he gained extensive sales experience. Ben has also spent the last two summers working for Wayzata’s athletic training program, Trojan Power, where he primarily helped coach the football team who went on to win the state tournament.

Ben is wide receiver for St John’s University, where he’s had the privilege of playing under legendary head coach John Gagliardi. In the summers you’ll often find him with his family and friends catching some sun at his cabin in Pierz, MN. 

Click here to read more about the MSpace team!

MSpace Announces Vidyo!

MSpace is happy to announce that Vidyo is the newest addition to our product mix!

Vidyo is the first videoconferencing solution that has been designed, from the ground up, as an IP application. By using a newly approved video coding standard called Scalable Video Coding (SVC), Vidyo is able to provide HD quality videoconferencing over any IP network, including the public internet!

Vidyo is able to offer HD Telepresence over everything from a room system camera to a desktop. Because Vidyo is designed as an IP application, the calls are able to sustain upwards of 20% packet loss without affecting the video quality of your meeting. All you need to do is enter your username and password on the Vidyo website and you are able to enter a meeting with ease. Not only does Vidyo provide quality, reliability, and ease of use, but its affordability is groundbreaking! By replacing the upfront capital expense of traditional legacy videoconferencing system with an affordable annual subscription model, Vidyo is able to demonstrate a rapid ROI.

For more information about implementing Vidyo in your office or to set up a Vidyo demo, email us at info@yourmspace.com or call us at 612-332-0122.

Click here to see a 3 min video about Vidyo

Video Champion Website

MSpace knows that your video conferencing needs are not satisfied after your project completion. Now, in conjunction with TANDBERG, we are offering the Video Champion Website. This website is full of ideas and resources about how your company can best use its videoconferencing system.

Learn how to:   

   Promote your Program
   Grow your Program
   Measure your Success
   Improve your meetings
   And much more!!!

Click here to find how to better use your system today!

For more information about MSpace formal training opportunities, please contact Rebecca Trainor at Rtrainor@www.yourmspace.com.

2008 Glowpoint High Performance Award

Glowpoint, a leading provider of advanced video communications solutions, has awarded MSpace the 2008 Glowpoint High Performance Award! Glowpoint recognizes its reseller channel partners annually based on their overall contribution.

“Glowpoint, in conjunction with its partners, is able to deliver a complete solution to the market. The 70 percent increase in 2008’s channel driven revenues over 2007 is noteworthy and we want to recognize the partners who made it happen.” (Glowpoint president and COO, Joe Laezza)

MSpace is pleased to offer the quality solution that Glowpoint provides to our customers and is proud to accept the 2008 High Performance Award.

Mini Masters 2009

MSpace’s Chicago team participated in the 6^th annual Mini Masters event on February 12^th. Mini Masters is a charitable event attended by individuals from various businesses in the commercial construction, design, and integration industries. All proceeds of this event went towards the Illinois Interior Design Coalition (IIDC). The IIDC is a not-for-profit political action committee whose mission is to protect the integrity of the Interior Design Title Act.

Located at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, the event consisted of an 18 hole mini golf course distributed between three floors. Participating companies each sponsored a hole and featured a fun design and theme. MSpace teamed up with Humanscale, Pepper Construction, and Interior Architects to create a retro themed golf hole consisting of the sights and sounds of a 70’s bowling alley.

MSpace showcased our expertise by integrating a digital signage commercial and marketing piece for the companies involved in the hole’s construction. Additionally, two 40” Sony LCD’s displayed images from two HD cameras. This technology allowed golfers to observe the progress and accuracy of their putting skills as the bowling/golf balls made their way through different tunnels designed into the bowling lane/golf hole.  A projector and screen were also integrated along with disco balls and black lights to give a real retro feel of the hole.   After a night of fun and games, the event ended as a huge success for the Chicago MSpace team!

MSpace can improve your bottom line and deliver real R.O.I

Benefits of Videoconferencing:

80% of communication is non-verbal. Videoconferencing maximizes your communication efforts

• Spend less Money and ensure a significant R.O.I by:
  • Cutting travel expense
  • Reducing time spent traveling
  • Decreasing delivery cost
  • Increasing efficiency
  • Increased speed to market
     
• Increase the efficiency and quality of communication through face to face contact. Less travel for your team and customers provides increased customer service and increased employee work life balance.
   
• Collaborate, sharing of ideas, content, and product features. Videoconferencing makes this possible without having to rely on audio only integration, managing time delays, or dealing with the shipping costs.
   
• Allow face to face transparency and accountability without in person meetings.
   
• Cut your carbon footprint and assist with Green initiatives.
   
• Give your company an updated and forward thinking appeal with an organized, modernized meeting space.

Taste of TANDBERG

Our Tandberg 4^th Quarter event was a huge success! Located at one of our newest integrated audiovisual rooms in the AT&T towers of Minneapolis, our customers were welcome to enjoy lunch and an impressive introduction to the newest in TANDBERG technology. Our two highlighted products included the E20 and the C90. The E20 is reinventing the desk phone merging voice, video and collaboration into one device. The C90 is leading the industry with the first 1080p HD video codec.

For more information on these products, please contact MSpace at                612-332-0122        .

Thank you to all who attended and stay tuned for our next MSpace event.

MSpace Celebrates AV Week!

The Audiovisual industry is one of the fastest growing industries in our economy today and is projected to continue to grow at 11% based on a study done by North American MDSS. The week of October 19^th to the 25^th was the 3^rd annual AV week involving companies around the US celebrating the successes of the AV industry and educating their communities. MSpace has lead the way in the promotion and education of the AV industry in Minnesota.

MSpace was responsible for securing a proclamation from the governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, officially recognizing AV week in the state just last year. This year, MSpace wanted to organize something to help educate our community on the effects of the AV industry on the way people are doing business today. In order to achieve this, MSpace decided to do an audiovisual presentation to the Entrepreneurship Scholars Program (E-Scholars) at St. John’s University.

E-scholars is a program where about 12 students each year are selected to participate. The program involves 3 courses and traveling on business trips in Silicon Valley, Minneapolis, and Hong Kong. At the end of their program, they are expected to launch a new venture before completing the program. MSpace could not think of a better group of people to educate on the international effect of the AV industry in the world today.

President Ryan Heining, a St John’s University Alumni, addressed the group on October 22^nd via the Video Conferencing system at the University. Students were able to learn about the industry and the profitable benefits of AV applications while seeing the effects firsthand. After hearing about the money saving possibilities with travel costs, increasing communication and cutting down on your carbon footprint, the growth of the industry was no surprise. The students were very responsive to the topic asking question about the path to success within the AV industry and connecting AV products with the feasibility analysis of a company.

To read more about AV week visit http://www.avweek.org/

MSpace Continues to Grow by Adding 5 New Employees!

MSpace continues to grow as a company and we are keeping up to our demand by hiring 5 new employees. We are expanding our presence in Minneapolis, San Francisco and Chicago Markets.

In our Minneapolis office we have added Brian Green, Lindsey Johnson and Eric Jorgenson to our team. Brian will be ensuring the quality installation and maintenance of MSpace product as our newest Field Engineer. Lindsey will be helping grow our presence in the Government and Education Market alongside John Kast as our newest Account Manager. Eric will be expanding our Help Desk department in order to more quickly and precisely respond to the service needs of our customers as our newest Customer Service Technician.

As our presence continues to expand in the Chicago area, we have added Tim O’Brien to the team. He will be working alongside Ross Denne as the newest Chicago Regional Account Manager.

Our San Francisco business has experienced extreme growth throughout the past year and we plan on investing in the further success of that business. We have added Fred Avina as our newest Project Manager to assure the quality MSpace experience our customers expect.

MSpace welcomes our new employees and look forward to their contributions to our team!

Click here to read more about what experience and diversity they will bring to MSpace.

Tee it up for the Troops!

MSpace, once again, teamed up with its sister company I:Space to sponsor the 4th annual Tee it up for the Troops National Day of Golf on September 5th.

Tee it up for the Troops is a nonprofit organization established by family and friends of a solder in the US Army. It was organized to assist, acknowledge and honor the fallen, wounded, and disabled soldiers who have sacrificed so much for our country.

On this day, golf courses around the U.S. invite these brave individuals to enjoy a round of golf. They are still calculating the proceeds, however, this one day of golf should have raised about half a million dollars in scholarships and assistance to those who have sacrificed for our freedom. MSpace will be sponsoring along with donating the use of our digital signage for the event.

If you are interested in donating or participating in this event please go to http://www.teeitupforthetroops.com/ for more information.

Atwater Block Nurse Golf Outing

The Annual Atwater Block Nurse golf outing is an event that was put together to raise money to help assist seniors in being self sufficient in the comfort and familiarity of their homes versus going to a nursing home.

MSpace’s President, Ryan Heining, has a personal connection to this event. When his grandmother, Stella Heining, was at the point of needing some in-home care, the Block Nurse Program helped her stay in her own home for approximately 5 years longer then she otherwise would have. This allowed Ryan’s father, Marlen, to see his mother every morning for those 5 years when he brought her the mail. When Ryan’s dad and seven other Atwater businessmen purchased the golf course in 19.., it was a natural fit to create an event to support the Block Nurse program.

This is a program that Ryan and MSpace have participated in for many years. After the passing of Ryan’s father, he and his brothers decided they would support this cause in honor of him for as long as it lasts. This year, MSpace sponsored the event and had 8 representatives from the company participating in the tournament. The event had wonderful weather, a large turnout, and the Atwater golf club raised $4250 to support the Block Burse program.

MSpace Thanks Our Customers!

On August 7th 2008, MSpace thanked our customers that have contributed so much to the success of our company by transforming our offices to our own Vegas Strip. In collaboration with our top vendors we brought our customers the latest and greatest in audio visual technology surrounded by the lights, sights and sounds of Vegas!

Our customers participated in a night of stimulating technology along with food, drinks, casino gaming, live music, and amazing giveaways.

The technology show displayed the newest technology from Crestron, Weston Collaboration, Tandberg, Extron, Glowpoint Video, Tightrope, ISpace, Visitec, Da-Lite, Pulse, Bormann Marketing, Pollycom, BP Marketing, Starn, Mitsubishi Electric, Wideband, Wireless Ronin.

We would like to thank all of our customers and vendors who helped make Vegas Night our best event to date! Be sure to keep a look out for updates for our future events.

Glowpoint to Provide Managed Video Services for the 2008 NBA Draft

Press Release Thursday June 26, 9:16 am ET

Additional "war room" live video feed will provide inside look at selection process

HILLSIDE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glowpoint, Inc. (OTC:GLOW), a premiere broadcast-quality, IP-based managed video service provider, today announced it will be providing managed video services for broadcast coverage of 2008 NBA basketball draft. Draft coverage, which begins tonight (Thursday), will feature live interviews carried across the Glowpoint video network from 15 team locations around the country. The coverage will also include a live video feed from one of the team’s “war rooms in order to provide an insiders peek at the process leading up to a team’s selection.

“Having been selected for the 5th consecutive year is very exciting for us, said Dan Boland, Glowpoint’s Vice President, Broadcast and Digital Media. “Our team puts forth a tremendous effort year in and year out for these high profile events, and the confidence the networks have in us is tremendously rewarding.

The services include Glowpoint’s high-quality network connectivity along with a full range of managed video services. The broadcasters will leverage Glowpoint’s cost-effective services in order to do interviews instantaneously with analysts and team representatives. The networks frequently show the in-studio analysts in split screen with the person being interviewed, showcasing Glowpoint’s ability to provide virtually zero latency in a live-to-air use of video conferencing.

Glowpoint has also been awarded branding rights on one of the networks and the company’s logo will be featured on screen during the video interviews. The following graphic will be displayed at various times throughout the broadcast.

In addition to events like the NBA draft, Glowpoint provides services to a variety of broadcasters, supporting around the clock live coverage throughout the year. The introduction of Glowpoint’s HD solution in 2007 led to a number of customers expanding services to include remote feeds during daily features and one college network has been nominated for an Emmy for their use of Glowpoint’s HD solution in their broadcast.

About Glowpoint Glowpoint, Inc.

(OTC:GLOW), is a premiere, IP-based managed video communications services provider. Glowpoint is innovating video communications with services supporting traditional video conferencing, Telepresence VNOC, Broadcast Content Acquisition & Delivery, and Call Center Applications. Glowpoint’s services are delivered over a robust, video-centric network that reaches around the world and serves clients ranging from Fortune 100 enterprises and leading broadcast networks to SMB markets. Glowpoint is headquartered in Hillside , New Jersey. To learn more, visit http://www.glowpoint.com/.