Push Mobile Media Recognized by Top Research Firm (Thx!)

US Mobile Learning Forecasting for 2008 – 2013

Wow, I think this is the first serious mobile study that has mentioned Push Mobile Media. Now that is very cool!.

The research firm is Ambient Insight ( Link to their study below)

http://ambientinsight.com/Resources/Documents/AmbientInsight_2008-2013_US_MobileLearning_Forecast_ExecutiveOverview.pdf

Found on Google.

Cisco Live! – Tech 2000 deliveres Push /LearnCast at CiscoLive!!

Las Vegas- Cisco Networkers is in full swing in Las Vegas Nevada. We are delivering mobile learning to attendees with mobile devices. The attendees are entering to win mobile prizes and free learning with LearnCast and Push Mobile Media.

“This has been an amazing day for our team to see how many people are interested in the use of mobile training and use or urgent mobile media delivering rich mobile content!”, stated George Churchwell CEO of Tech2000 Inc.

Mobile Learning at CiscoLive!

Apple Approves LearnCast Version

 

Version 1.1.2 is now live at LearnCast. The LearnCast mobile application is found on the Apple iPhone store. Just search for “Learncast”. We are busy building our first content listings primarily from our content partners who understand the power of mobile content and mobile distribution.

Learncast is currently deployed within school systems and have been recieving student and teacher feedback regarding our tools, content distribution, mobiQuiz, mobiExam, security, mobiShout ( Social feedback) and many other invaluable offerings from our customers.

Next version – is going to get very exciting.

Achieve Labs Wins Registration Mark for StudentDNA

StudentDNA® is now a live and real mark issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office, to Achieve Labs Inc. This represents our 4 year quest to deliver a brand name designed for mobile learners.

StudentDNA® will come to life in 2010 stay tuned to this exciting area of students who are using every delivery platform to learn from , even mobile.

Apple Approves LearnCast Mobile App

Waiting on pins and needles!!!

We received the approval from Apple that LearnCast application is about to go live in 24 hours. This is great news for all of us who have worked long, long hours, late nights to bring LearnCast to market.

Now any one can publish mobile content to mobile devices in “60 seconds flat” – well almost !!!

Congratulations to the staff – the great designers and engineers who made this come to life. I’m really excited to see how the world embraces LearnCast – to visit LearnCast

Go to HTTP://www.LearnCast.com – simply Fantastic!

LearnCast: Powered by Push Mobile Media

The iPhone Mobile Learning App from LearnCast

LearnCast ® is “Powered by Push”.  This exciting new service is setting the bar in the K-12, university and professional mobile learning market. With rapid desktop development tools and support for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile devices and Androids, learning anywhere is now optimized.

LearnCast is a “hybrid” mobile technology of web services, mobile apps and content delivery on all devices and wireless carriers in the market. Create dynamic content, polls, quizzes and tests with an exceptional focus on usability of educational content for both contributors and students.

This mobile education publishing platform relies on push notifications as a service, which has proven to be a superior method that incorporates email and SMS with rich mobile multimedia (RMM) payloads.

LearnCast will soon be offering the best content from various educational publishing companies and expert authors.

Please visit www.LearnCast.com for the latest news and updates.

Build an App in 60 Seconds Flat!

Wayne Newton was sharing the stage with Push Mobile Media

CTIA Las Vegas played host to 40,000 attendees, making it by far the largest mobile show in the US. CTIA has both a hardware and software focus, as well as industry outreach. It’s amazing to see the growth of the industry and the interest regarding our solutions. Push Mobile Media did very well at this conference.

Our marketing offering: ” Build an App in 60 Seconds , Flat” was the show stopper. We were positioned on the red carpet along the main aisle and our exposure to thousands of  people passing by was fantastic. We had a wide range of industry, education and international company representatives showing great interest. We were fortunate to have had these new potential partners who believe in our model and our vision, and have them share their ideas with us on how to be the best brand and product we can be.

With many initiatives completing in April within our labs, such as the LearnCast Desktop tools for educators and the mobile app delivery – we will have the first educational “app hybrid”  tool that delivers  “Open Mobile Education”. Our teaching partners, authors and market makers are sure to be impressed!

We are making great strides, daily. It’s really about pulling others in, sharing ideas and making our vision together. Thanks to Jon, Heather, Dave J, Sean, Phil, Megan, Pat, Michael Kroth and all of you  who were involved during this time crunch with me!!!

Mobile Leadership Michael Kroth

My business associate and co-author of our forth coming book, (TBA) Michael Kroth, was interviewed yesterday on Tom on Leadership, a talk / Blog show. The guests were interviewed regarding Leadership and virtual teams, fixing teams and managing “damage control” within the virtual team or mobile teams. Michael was brilliant in his delivery and humor. Michael shared his story of Bagels, now that was clever!! Thank you for the support and plug for Push Mobile Media  !!

To view his podcast -

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Re-Building your Virtual Team

How can you re-build a virtual (i.e. geographically dispersed) team that has had some negative interactions within the group? If you had a single in-person team meeting, how would you go about rebuilding trust and a sense of camaraderie within the group? Or can it be done?

• Dr. Mike Kroth - Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho in Adult/Organizational Learning and Leadership, and author or co-author of three books including Transforming Work: The Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment, and Passion in the Workplace and The Manager as Motivator

http://blog.thomasbcox.com/

ADDITIONALLY !! – This video clip below was found on Tom on Leadership. This is a funny and true the basis of building the “team of followers”

iPod Touch & Mobile Students: Core Subjects, Quizzes and Rich Content

The Apple iPod Touch and iPhone are definitely causing excitement in mobile publishing and mobile distribution. We’ve been following the educational needs of teachers for years, who are now integrating mobile technologies and using mobile publishing software  in and out of the classroom. The “old school” attitude is gone. Innovative teachers already know that the mobile device is how students prefer to connect and get the information they want. Push Mobile Media lets you create new learning materials, or repurpose existing ones quickly and easily in a mobile and accessible way.

No doubt we are on the right track and have the partners and customers to move briskly in to the educational mainstream. Having the publishing system that handles all mobile devices, enables intuitive design of courses and quizzes, includes real time tracking  and can be bolted into any LMS? This is a full-on learning solution, ready for prime time.

Contact us to discuss how your school can and should expand education beyond the classroom. Rest assured, your students will think it’s pretty cool.

David Clemons

Training the Mobile Workforce (Me, You, Them!)

The “perfect storm” is described as having all the  possible scenarios aligned to produce a powerful magnificent storm.  If the IDC forecast is correct in that 75% of the current workforce will be considered a mobile workforce by 2011, is there a perfect storm brewing?

A simplified definition of a mobile worker is a person who is enabled to perform work functions outside of the corporate campus using technology to connect, communicate and be productive.

Global training managers have to be thinking about the “best practices” and guidelines to lead, communicate and to train their mobile workers.

As a coach and training  go-to person in a busy mobile publishing enterprise, I have gained some important insights into how to train my mobile workforce.

I have been traveling and speaking about mobile platforms, mobile publishing, content networks, mobile polling, educational courses and just about anything you can imagine regarding mobile delivery. (I really love my job!)

Leadership and the management team, if on the same page, create a work environment that is needed by the mobile worker. The remote warriors of yesterday are a bit different than the mobile workers of today. The new mobile workforce population now includes just about every type of sales, support and corporate personality imaginable.

The needs of these people are met through the use of technology on the road, at home and anywhere a connection is available. The role of the manager is to make sure these talented, wonderful human beings who have skills beyond the ROI report, are waiting to be inspired and trained to the mission and purpose of the company.

Training these people ( me, you, them!) needs to flow as if these people (me, you, them!) were sitting next to the manager’s office.

A few jotted notes …

1. Time Zones – Write on your wall map! Get used to making considerations about international and cross country time zones. Go to the dollar store, buy the round clocks and label them with your staff time zones. Or set up your PDA to show them all.

2. Technology – Make sure that if you conduct a meeting, as a presenter using a collaborative tool like GoToMeeting or Cisco Web X, start with a good connection. Be prepared and study “What makes a good web based presentation”? Think of the trainees as a customer.

3. Expectations – Set up the rules and policies of mobile workers. be clear on what you expect of them.

4. Communication – Determine a best practice of real-time-voice -versus email-versus-IM. The remote person ( me, you, them!) need to feel valued, feel important, listened to and that they ( me, you them!) are making important contributions.

5. Be proactive, not just reactive – Be nice and make sure you remember that your team members manage a life balancing act. Make some suggestions to them. Be thoughtful, be direct when needed, but think about their value proposition every time you connect with them.

6. Enable through technology – Fix issues and train by doing.

7. Performance – Mobility means independence, to a point. Performance is based on understanding individual self-managed “true-grit”.  Every manager has to think about each team member’s performance and the  management styles used to keep the mobile worker happy- very happy!

I have too many ideas for this – but I have to run – I’m remote today and meetings are ticking closer. Lets see… I’ll check my connection , organize my documents, write a few questions, check the coffee cup and put a BIG SMILE ON. Face my own storm.

A Mobile “Non-Twitter” Social Enterprise Solution

Is the enterprise going mobile social?

Push Mobile Media was working on and delivering a “non-twitter” solution for over a year (or was it 2008?).  Our Platform allows the mobile user to receive a mobile campaign or mobile  learning program for companies that need to engage their mobile workforce. Unlike Twitter, our platform offers a secure,  easy to integrate and easy to use social media tool for the enterprise.

mobiShout is the first reported enterprise mobile program that is delivered either via SMS and or into mobile Email, with secure links to enterprise content such as on-demand video, text, images , polling, quizzing and live REAL-TIME charting.

Additionally, mobiShout delivers threaded text messages – groups to members, or by member to member in an engaging style.   The enterprise platform assigns roles and rights to the members.

This is a “non-twitter” solution which takes mobile communication behind the firewall and encourages discussions that can be measured and used to make decisions. Thanks to the insights shared by our clients, we are making a social enterprise platform that makes mobile collaborating and sharing so great, we’re going to create a new word for it. How about “funner”!

Deloitte: Study Shows “Closed Garden” is OVER in 2012

According to a recent Deloitte survey of executives, more than half see the future of mobile driven by open mobile content, with 67 percent of the respondents believing it will be a “game changing” force within wireless in the short-term. When asked which mobile operating system has the greatest potential to be the U.S. de facto standard in five years, Google’s open source Android operating system was the runaway favorite with 43 percent of all votes—more than double the score of the next highest finisher. In fact, 27 percent of those surveyed say that Internet companies, rather than network carriers and handset makers, will dominate the U.S. wireless sector in five years.

74% of all respondents believe that survival in an open industry will depend on making the transition from “closed gardens” business models to open technologies and “platform ecosystems”

I think for two years now – Push Mobile Media has reported support for this “open technology and business model”- especially within the enterprise and for education.

Push Presents at mHEALTH 2010 Washinton DC

The first mHealth Networking Conference (February 3rd and 4th  2010 Washington DC) http://www.mobih.org/

It was a great conference for Push Mobile Media, as we gave a one hour presentation on defining the “What is the Mobile Workforce in Healthcare”. Although we wanted to spend a great deal on our upcoming book with McGraw -Hill, we wanted to cover how a health organization can build and support a mobile workforce and define what tools are available to healthcare organizations that meet the demanding needs of  physicians, clinicians, staff and mobile workers.

Here is what we learned about what the HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY NEEDS – NOW!

1. Requires secure communication - HIPPA compliance (EXISTS TODAY )
2. Use of mobile devices that allow multi-threaded discussing in chat /text format (EXISTS TODAY)
3. SAAS is not the only requirement - several companies are requesting to use a non- SAAS solution (EXISTS TODAY)
4. Secure SMS transcoded, encyrpted on both clients ( EXISTS TODAY)
5. Group Collaboration and Group to Patient Collaboration without the use of an Office Visit ( EXISTS TODAY )

Problems – Solutions are fragmented – needs system aggregations

Solution – Push Mobile Media ( EXISTS TODAY)

Ok there is nothing better to our team to know we are on the fast track inside of the HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY.

Apple Launches iPad

Some interesting facts about the iPhone:

1. 12 billion downloads to date
2. 125 million credit card accounts buying mobile apps
3. 75 million iPhones have shipped to 75 million + people who know how to use this power mobile device

Facts about the iPad

IPAD price

Official Price 499.00 starting point WIFI enabled

Price is determined by speed of WIFI and memory

140,000 apps to download from launch day

3 stores on board, Book Store, Music Store, App Store – smart!.

“The User experience is the single most powerful thing ever created on a handheld device”.  yes, this is my opinion, and that comes with 20 years of designing software , systems and looking for and finding the best apps and products to brag about. David Clemons

Phil Schiller – Apple – ” its going to change the way we do things everyday”.

Jon Ive  Sr. Vice President Scott Forstall -Senior Vice President Software Development - “It just feels right to hold the internet in your hands as you surf it. It’s completely natural … you just “DO”

http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video

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Publish Content to iPhone, BlackBerry, Droid Devices in 60 Seconds!

Now publishing content to your iPhone, iTouch, Samsung, Motorola Droid, BlackBerry and Palm is easier than building a Power Point.

Push Mobile Media has released mobile publishing features that allow our customers to create engaging mobile presentations, mobile campaigns, mobile education, mobile quizzing, mobile polling, searching, media galleries, links to mobile sites and content. The best feature of the software is its DELIVERY system of mobile email / SMS/ and to your PC all in one.

Measure with real-time feedback – user polling, quizzing, and popular opinions.

With our intuitive user interface and “drag and drop” tools you will be able to quickly produce mobile content for your entire mobile audience. Go ahead – try it out!

Watch this demo of mobiFeed – http://pushmobilemedia.com/mobifeed.php

Register for a free account at – http://pushmobilemedia.com

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Search for Enterprise Documents is the Problem

Searching is the problem. It’s not easy for your enterprise workforce to find critical business information when they need it.  It’s almost impossible. How many people need to be asked to give access to the requested documents?  How many hours need to be wasted hunting for what was sent out to the mobile workforce three weeks ago? We know they are calling department support personnel and asking questions like, “can you send me the PDF of the new pricing matrix?” If this sounds familiar …

mobiSearch™ – Enterprise-ready mobile search utility designed for your enterprise … by your team.

Now you can upload your secure information into our mobiSearch™ content engines, add metadata and provide an instant link on the mobile device of every mobile worker.

You save on cost controls of self service content that can be found anytime, anywhere from the mobile devices used in the remote corners of the world.

Be ready – know where to find your stuff…. when you need it.

2010 Mobile Advice

“Create a simple mobile strategy” is a good topic for your 1st quarter planning of 2010. There is plenty of support from every industry and business segment that having a mobile strategy is a competitive advantage. If IDC predictions are correct, 75% of employees will be equipped and ready to be your mobile workforce.

We thought it would be helpful to share some of our insight based on what you and others are telling us. The following points are suggestions for you to consider when thinking of incorporating an enterprise mobile strategy.

How will you create URGENCY?  Reaching the employee through voice mail? 4-5 days response. The average response of desktop email  is 3-6 days. Sounding familiar? Getting feedback from the mobile workforce in a timely manner seems almost impossible!

As a leader, provide a quality message. Ask yourself – why would anyone read this and provide me feedback? If you don’t know the reason or have a fast answer – rewrite and repurpose your message. Take more  time this month to let each member know they are part of something special and it is better with their feedback and input.

As a manager, provide the mobile workforce more communication and stay on top of personal relationship. It’s the little things that count.

As an IT manager, keep it secure but keep the solutions coming. The people in the remote workplace need to know you add to their capability everyday. Your team is smart – they learn fast too:) !!

As a trainer, get the tools you need to get more involved in what mobile has now become. Learn how to integrate and expand the delivery models. If your plan is only for employees to get to the desktop time, you are missing a lot of opportunity. (more on this later….)

Integrate mobile into your existing CRM, Saleforce, LMS / LCMS, Sharepoint, CDN platforms. Just about all of the investments your company has made and is using should NOW be at the integration point of a mobile strategy.

Learn to use the services in the “Cloud”. If Salesforce.com can convince millions of users to use a Software as a Service (SAAS), then your company can surely learn from this as well. If it needs to be secure, there are companies out there that will protect your data. You now have options to higher product costs, software licenses, data connections etc, etc.

Our goal is to learn through our customers’ needs and to build a success story that is based on “trust” and being “proactive”. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Every customer to us is a very big deal, and our dedicated and passionate support team is there every step of the way as they implement their unique mobile strategies.

We have several companies to thank for teaching us the power of listening and acting ,

LearnKey Inc.

Ripcode Inc.

GoToMeeting

HealthWise

Dow Chemical

Boeing

and many others…..

It’s time to rebuild. Start 2010 off in a positive and meaningful way.

David Clemons – Founder and lead cheerleader for Push Mobile Media

Happy Holidays to you and your family

On behalf of our staff and partners, may this holiday season bring your family peace and warmth. Celebrating this wonderful season in Salt Lake City, Utah – beautiful winter wonderland. From our family to yours Merry Christmas and HNY!

David Clemons

Push Mobile Media adds Email Support as Backup Distribution to SMS Alerts

Recently, we polled executives that rely heavily on their mobile devices. We asked them about receiving content via email alerts vs. SMS alerts. Push Mobile Media has updated our distribution system to include email alerts featuring optimized mobile content for the Blackberry, Windows Media Devices, iPhones, Motorola Droids, Samsung, Nokia, HTC and many other manufacturers.

“This is a well needed option for busy executives who are more familiar with interacting with email on their mobile device rather than the use of SMS messaging  for urgent company business”,  stated David Clemons , Push Mobile Media CEO. ” We are seeing interest in having these options due to the added enterprise security and management of mobile content within the enterprise.”

Our email system includes mobiShout, the new enterprise collaboration feature for collecting feedback in real time. This feedback mechanism is constantly maturing and our enterprise partners are providing us with very positive feedback.

Push Mobile Supports Droid

I spoke to Motorola executives about their strategy and plan for supporting the Google Droid mobile operating system at CTIA. Last weekend I went out and picked up a Motorola DROID and the BlackBerry Storm2 – I think the mobile revolution is on fire with the power of these new devices.

These little mobile devices are heartbreakers – once you try one, you will want one. Video media is a huge plus within these phones. The UI  is faster than expected and easy to learn.