Adam did a fantastic job! Remember the NEW CEWIRE was built from the ground up. NO outside third parties anymore telling us what we can and cannot do! Many hours of work on Adam's part
ODwire.org users with a keen eye can probably tell when watching the video, that we've attempted to integrate the conference platform into ODwire.org
itself with this rebuild. (We refer to the whole mess as the "
ODwire.org Virtual Event System", for lack of a better term.)
To users, the entire system operates transparently as a whole. But in the background one group of servers is handling registration, credit card processing, private discussion threads, and the file repository, while another is handling the streaming of live video, chatting, and quizzes.
The entire setup allows us to have a greater degree of control, and promotes a higher level of interactivity over a longer period of time than any other platform.
We invested a whole bunch of money, time -- and my sanity -- into the development of this system. So even though CEwire is the 'flagship' event that uses it, my hope is that other optometric groups approach us to take advantage of it as well, since it was almost purpose-built to get credits into ARBO efficiently.
(We actually used it to host the NORA 2021 conference last fall)
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