The OASIS Advisor... Almost There!

We are using a new email campaign management service this quarter for the delivery of our quarterly email newsletter. Campaign Monitor has rave reviews for many e-publishers, so we figured we should see how their deliverability fares. We are excited to arrive in your inbox in the near future, and we've created an enhanced look & feel to coincide with the change in delivery services.

As always, the next issue of the newsletter will include eBook versions and links to our blog (well, you're here, so that's not news!) and our Twitter feed. Stay in touch, sign-up, and receive our latest posts. The goal of using these social media tools is to keep you aware of the latest offerings that OASIS has, as well as a glimpse into our outlook on meeting content management and related technology. It's an exciting place to be.

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In short, we are excited to keep improving the way we reach our customers. Thanks for reading.

Got Mobile?!

The demand for digital content accessibility has never been greater. When you think about catering to the many high tech professionals that your association serves in the STM space, it's imperative that you allow your attendees to access their entire meeting itinerary on any mobile device they’re already comfortable with—online or offline. iCalendar support enables direct-to-personal calendar imports for itinerary access from anywhere. iCalendar is a fascinating concept because it is not new. It was actually a specification developed several years ago that sets the standard for how to make many items of calendar-based content accessible as a single, portable file. Why don't more systems leverage this concept?! It seems like a no-brainer, so we ensured it got onto our roadmap here at OASIS.

It makes sense to let each user keep track of their own personal itinerary on the device or software that works best for them. Attendees with iPhones? No problem. Some find Google Calendar easier? Simple. OASIS iCalendar capability enables entire itineraries—not single sessions—to be imported directly into a user’s calendar device or application at once.

If this sounds as exciting to you as it does to us, please check out our newly released information sheet at http://home.abstractsonline.com/_transfer/OASIS_MobileItinerary.pdf