BENEFITS OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR CORPORATE TRAINING PROGRAMS
Research by Texas-based marketsandmarkets.com has shown that by 2015, the global mobile phone and smartphone market is expected to grow to US$341.4bn. This has proved that mobile technology development is the premier field where tremendous development is likely to occur in the near future. New applications have already made a difference to our lives by changing the way we connect and talk to each other while on the move. It is also predicted by the above agency that by 2015, smartphone revenues would rise by 75.8%. The use of the smartphone is giving new avenues for corporate event planners and to organize meetings and conferences conveniently.
Managing and organizing one or more corporate training programs involve renting staff for the various functions. Some of these functions are registrations, payment collections, creating reports, doing surveys, and handling other logistics. Another important task that corporate trainers need to keep in mind is communication with the potential attendees. This activity involves sending emails, informing people about the benefits of participating in such conferences, etc. Mobile technology has changed the way such seminars and conferences are organized and conducted in a cost-effective way.
Mobile technology enables your seminar participant to register on the spot online without taking the trouble to travel all the way to your office for registering himself. Interested attendees can register online through their cell phones and also pay through their cell phones using the payment gateway provided by the organizer. Some advanced mobile devices also provide features of accessing the seminar data that the attendees might need for the event. They can carry the same in their smartphones and carry it to the seminar. Organizers can also send their registration jinks and information pertaining to registration fees to potential attendees on their smartphones.
Smartphones enable the organizers of seminars and conferences and their trainers as well as the attendees to manage their activities with regard to organizing and attending these seminars. Even seminar calendar can be sent and accessed via the same smartphones. In case if the seminar is re-scheduled, then intimation about the same can be given to the participants through mobile technology. Training materials can be easily received and sent via smartphones using mobile internet from the service provider. One can download the materials on their cell phones and then access the same at their leisure on their smartphones.
Mobile applications help reduce the use of paper and also make it easy to carry documents in the soft form through smartphones. They also increase the quality of communication among the event organizers and the attendees. The built-in applications in mobile phones which allow the sending and receiving of images and video films on the spot have made exchanging data about seminars and conferences more convenient. Such images and videos can be uploaded by absentees on their smartphones and accessed thus enabling them to access data that they otherwise would not have been privy to as they were absent for the event.
