New York, NY
-- 07/31/2003 -- LearningTimes,
LLC the leading provider of online conference communities
for education, and The
Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of
information technology in American higher education, today announced
the launch of MarketTimes, a web-based information service focused
on the postsecondary education market.
The monthly
MarketTimes interactive webcasts, broadcast on the first Tuesday
of each month, will be structured around guests who can provide
informed, independent perspectives on the people, events, technologies,
policy issues, money matters, and corporate alliances that shape
the postsecondary education market. The monthly programs will
feature interviews and panel discussions that include college
presidents, campus CIOs and CFOs, senior officials from the leading
educational and industry associations, senior corporate executives
from the IT and college publishing industries, analysts and vendors,
and key decision makers at all levels.
“We’ve
designed MarketTimes to address the needs of companies that do
business in the post-secondary market,” says program host
and Executive Producer Casey Green. “The MarketTimes programs
will cover a wide range of topics and market segments. The format
and low-priced, unlimited access, corporate subscription model
ensures that critical information is available to everyone in
an organization.”
Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project, is widely recognized
as a leading authority about the higher education market. In addition to hosting
the monthly MarketTimes programs, Green will also provide subscribers with
a bi-monthly MarketTimes Update. These Updates feature data, insight, and analysis
on topics of immediate concern to firms working in postsecondary education.
MarketTimes Updates may include recorded interviews with key campus leaders
and industry players, short Flash movies, or links to a voice discussion board
where subscribers may pose questions directly to an expert .
The monthly
MarketTimes webcasts, MarketTimes Updates, and other important
information will be archived at MarketTimes Online Community,
produced by LearningTimes.
For more information
and registration, please visit the MarketTimes website at www.markettimes.net,
write to info@markettimes.net or
call John Walber at 215-884-7321.
About LearningTimes, LLC
LearningTimes,
LLC, is the leading producer of online communities and
conferences in the education market. LearningTimes designs
and manages learning programs and events, as well as the environments,
applications and marketing strategies that make them successful.
The LearningTimes
Network, a coalition of 28 vibrant, online learning communities,
serves over 13,000 members and includes groups delivering educational
programs, workshops and events in information literacy, poetry,
museum education, professional development for college and K-12
educators, corporate training, continuing and professional education,
and product user group support. For more information visit: www.learningtimes.net.
About
The Campus Computing Project
Begun in 1990, The
Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of
information technology in American higher education. The project is widely
cited by campus officials and corporate executives as a definitive source for
information about IT issues affecting US colleges and universities. For more
information visit: http://www.campuscomputing.net.
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