Social Networking Collaboration at Canada 3.0 Powered by OpenText
OpenText to Provide Secure Social Networking for Canada’s Premier
Digital Media Event
WATERLOO, ON, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTC) will
provide a social networking platform to connect attendees and
presenters before, during and after the Canada 3.0 2011 digital media
forum www.canada30.ca being held in Stratford, Ontario May 2-4. The social networking
software is the same solution that OpenText provided for delegates at
both the Toronto and Korea G-20 Summits held in 2010 (http://www.opentext.com/2/global/press-release-details.html?id=2437) and now customized for the Canada 3.0 forum.
“As a Platinum sponsor of the Canada 3.0 2011 forum and major proponent
of digital media progress in Canada, OpenText is pleased to provide a
social collaboration tool that will make connecting attendees,
presenters and other subject matter experts easier and more efficient,”
said Eugene Roman, Chief Technology Officer at OpenText.
OpenText’s Social Workplace solution opentext.com/otsw will be accessible from mobile devices on-site, linking more than 3,000
past and new attendees and enabling them to share ideas and converse
with presenters from the conference. Participants can access the
OpenText application from their BlackBerrys, iPhones and iPads at http://talk.canada30.com/login.
The social collaboration software will ensure that attendees have at
their fingertips everything they need to get the most out of the Canada
3.0 forum, including access to the agenda, room locations, subjects and
speakers in the eight sector tracks, and more. Most importantly, the
secure social media platform will enable participants to not only
collaborate onsite, but to stay connected once the digital media forum
concludes.
“Given the issues of security and privacy related to consumer-grade
social networking tools, OpenText developed a platform with
enterprise-strength security controls,” said Roman. “Our Social
Workplace software offers better ways for people to connect and share
information so they can be more effective and productive.”
Roman will be leading the Public Sector stream, sponsored by OpenText,
at Canada 3.0 and will be compiling outcomes to present at the
conclusion of the forum. OpenText will also have a major presence in
the Interactive Showcase area of the forum showcasing the latest ECM
solutions. Tom Jenkins, OpenText Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy
Officer, who is also Chair of the Advisory Board for the Canadian
Digital Media Network, will be among those officially welcoming
attendees to the forum.
Canada 3.0 is Canada’s premier digital media event organized annually by
the Canadian Digital Media Network, and brings together industry,
government, public sector and academic communities of interest with the
common goal of advancing Canada’s competitiveness in digital media. The
forum focuses on a goal called the Moonshot by which anyone in Canada
can do anything online by 2017, Canada’s 150(th) birthday.
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About OpenText
OpenText, a global ECM leader, helps organizations manage and gain the
true value of their business content. OpenText brings two decades of
expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries. Working with
our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts(TM)
to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase
brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and
improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
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