Tele-Town Hall Meeting Service Gaining in Popularity

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 19, 2010 -- Tele-Town Hall Meeting Service is rapidly transforming the way political and corporate leaders are interacting with their core audience and key voters.

OrangePoint Communications, which provides this cutting edge Tele-Town Hall technology, is reporting growing interest from leaders who are intent on improving communications and interactions with their constituency groups. "It's all about understanding what people are thinking and doing outside of the legislative chambers and the board room," said Laurie Patterson, OrangePoint's director of Town Hall Teleconferencing services.

"Everything is coming together in creating this virtual world of interaction. People have been doing it for years with email and instant messaging, but those were very limiting. Now an elected official can pick up the phone and talk to 20,000 or more voters simultaneously -- they can hear him or her live, and at the same time, the official can open it up and hear the voters as well. It's the same as having a radio show on the phone, but in this instance there are no commercial interruptions and the leaders can set their own agenda, topics and discuss details that would otherwise be edited out of television comments. It's about freedom for the leaders, and freedom for the voters or customers who get a closer tie-in with their officials."

Several factors seem to be contributing to the growing usage and popularity of Tele-Town Hall services. For instance, The White House used town hall teleconferencing technology last year to reach out and interact with Americans who submitted over 100,000 questions during the teleconference.

The Administration said the precedent-setting online town hall meeting was "an important step" toward creating a broader avenue for information about his administration. The event allowed him to speak directly to Americans bypassing the filter of the news media. "The ability to deliver a clean message without interruptions from reporters and commercial breaks is what many of our clients find most appealing." said Patterson. "The White House event shows that virtual technologies are mainstream now, and officials and business leaders who embrace change and want to take advantage of the potential, can easily integrate Tele-Town Hall meetings within their ongoing outreach programs."

Companies and organizations like Voter Solutions and The Public Forum Institute are already ahead of the curve in using this type of outreach collaborative technology. "This is a new technology and an improved way to deliver a message and gauge the opinion of the grass roots movement. OrangePoint's clients are seeing significant improvements in the way their programs and campaigns are performing because of our Town Hall Conference System,” says Patterson. Specifically designed to help improve voter registration and campaign performance for politicians, elected officials and candidates, the web based system can be run from a regular PC and connect 100,000 callers from any location."

Another example of how leaders are taking action to better relate to their constituent groups is the new television series called "Undercover Boss" which shows corporate CEOs disguising themselves and working jobs on the front line to gain a better understanding and appreciation for what their employees face on a daily basis. The lessons and insights gained by this kind of interaction are sometimes eye-opening, and CEOs admit that the experience has strengthened their companies. "While no one is in disguise around here," says Patterson, "we enable leaders to successfully keep their ear to the ground when it comes to recognizing trends. Tele-Town Hall is a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the man or woman on the street who is ultimately going to determine the fate of a company, organization, or even country."

To find out more about OrangePoint and Tele-Town Hall Meetings , please visit www.orangepoint.net. OrangePoint is a leading telecom solutions provider of notifications and alerts via phone broadcasting, mass opt-in teleconferencing, automated online dialing for live outbound calls and computer faxing.

More information can be found online at http://www.orangepoint.net/town_hall_teleconference.html