October 8, 2009 by jcollins.

Wow, can it really be that we are done? Over 150,000 people have been touched by our technology since we started this tour back in June. Today was the last official event, another great Plan Your Meetings live event, this time in Dallas.

The event went flawlessly. Afterwards we were able to share a meal with David & Shirley Quine and their son Ben. We had a wonderful time with these pioneers in the homeschooling movement. David and Shirley are almost finished homeschooling their 9th child. It was very neat eating Chinese food with the author of the A Heart 4 You China curriculum. And believe me we didn’t miss the irony of ending our tour with the author of Starting Points.

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September 25, 2009 by jcollins.

The How to Take Back America conference in St. Louis, Mo is in full swing. Today we heard from Rick Heil of SonicFlood, Dr. Rick Scarborough, Janet Porter, Phyllis Schlafley, US Representatives Tom Price and Steve King, and even Joe the Plumber. The live audience, as well as those watching worldwide on the web, are using our Total Interactive Events technology to text in questions, comments and contest enteries. Tomorrow morning we will be using the audience response system. We also are recording YouTube videos from speakers and attendees that you can view here.

Here’s a photo of Sam with US Representative Tom Price.

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September 23, 2009 by jcollins.

John Collins will appear on over 200 radio station worldwide on Thursday September 24 at 1pm CST, on the Faith2Action radio program to discuss the different technologies that The Extreme Group will be providing at the How To Take Back America conference in St. Louis this coming weekend. On tap for the event, The Extreme Group will provide an audience response, texting services, a YouTube channel with updates throughout the day, and an emergency communication system.

In conjunction with the live webcast, The Extreme Group will keep the audience watching at home involved by allowing them to text in questions for the presenters, submit videos to be broadcast on the YouTube channel, and enter contests where you must be present (either physically or virtually) to win.

Click the following link to find a radio station in your area: Radio Station List

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September 19, 2009 by jcollins.

Today was the last official Rebelution conference of the ‘09 tour…
It was the best finale to the year I could imagine! Yes, set-up yesterday was very trying on us and the Harris’ crew but today was worth every second of it…
The morning started off early (6:00 a.m.). We headed to the conference center and started prepping the keypads. All went well, and soon we let my friend Samantha and her family in early. (I guess for once we were those ‘higher connections’ everyone talks about…:)…)

Everything went perfect during the distribution! This was an awesome ‘touch-team’! They got everyting done promptly, efficently, and happily. Kudos to the DC Rebelution Touch-Team!!!
I sat with my debate friends for most of the day, and for once, experienced the conference almost like an actual attendee. It was even neater when I soon found out I had another friend there from the NCFCA… Timothy Pierce. I had debated him at a practice tournament in January during last tournament season. He is a philosopher-wannabe whom I find to be interesting, as he takes a pure logical look at everything. Different from me and my other L-D friends like Samantha and Justine who just look for an understandable connection that is logical. It was good to catch up with him and discuss this year’s new Resolution- Resolved: that competition is superior to cooperation as a means of achieving excellence.

About a hundred people said they’d like to accept Christ and about that many must have stood up- more than ever before I would say! It was amazing. Like no conference before, Mr. Harris and many others were brought to tears before it was over…

This was my favorite conferance so-far I think. I probably say that after every conferance but this time it is completely true!

We went to dinner with the Fansler family (Chick-fil-a) then picked Daddy up at the airport…
I hope we can come back to DC next year!

Signing Off After THe FINAL Rebelution,
Katie

P.S. Less than a month left till we get home!!! See y’all soon!!!

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September 16, 2009 by jcollins.

We had another great event with Plan Your Meetings Live in Atlanta. The weather was horrible, but the brave meeting planners braved the storms and got see our audience response systems and live texting. We met some wonderful people and saw some old friends. It’s always a pleasure working with the PYM team, but this time seemed especially good. The food was great, speaker was good, and the crowd was gracious. As soon as the event was over we began our drive north. We ended up somewhere across the South Carolina line.

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June 11, 2009 by jcollins.

As thunderstorms rolled in at 4:30AM and posed a serious threat to thousands of campers spread out over several acres, The Extreme Group’s Total Interactive Event allowed Ichthus Festival administration to communicate quickly and efficiently with festival goers. It was exciting to see that when the storms passed through in the middle of the night, because of our technology they were able to let people know instructions for staying safe.

The emergency contact system is just one of the powerful features our new Total Interactive Events service gives to meeting and event planners. Now, no matter how spread out your attendees; whether it’s across town or across acres of campsites, you can communicate emergency action steps with them within minutes, from one safe location. We hoped we would never have to use it, but we had to use it last night and it performed exceptionally well. We can’t prevent the storms from coming, but we can let people know what action steps to take when they do come.

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