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Byron Van Arsdale

Byron Van Arsdale

• Welcome

My name is Byron and thanks for coming to my AboutUs.org personal page. I have no earthly idea how Kristina set up a talk page so use my email if you want to contact me!

Here are the AboutUs.org links to my companies:

Main Website: ConferenceCallTraining.com

Blog: PowerConferenceCalls.com

Products: RossdalePress.com

Rentals: TeleconferenceLine.com

• My Email

LinkedIn: read more

• My Location

Austin, Texas - an amazing city with a diverse culture, wonderful music, friendly people, and great food.

• Things I Care About

My passion is creating communities and learning environments using conference calls.

What I find most strange is that I'm the first person to create a model and develop training to effectively use a tool that has been around for over 30 years! Trial and Error has been THE ONLY model by which countless people around the world have learned to use (abuse?) conference calls.

While the business world is a primary focus for me, there is a relatively new challenge I'm starting to work toward solving. The Avaian Bird Virus reminded the world of what can happen during a pandemic. Life would be radically different from today and technology would play an essential role in keeping communities together. The model I developed for conference calls has always been much larger in its scope. I saw that clearly when a friend introduced me to the term social distancing. In short, how does a community continue forward when a pandemic forces limited physical contact? A lengthy Google search one evening around May 2007 showed me another place to help bring meaningful change.

Other things that I'm passionate about include my wife/soul mate Bernice, sailing, golf, windsurfing, kitesurfing (next on my list), and cooking. Oh, and most important of all, laughing!

• Something Fun

San Francisco set up an interesting method to raise money for charity - artists painted metal hearts in wide variety of unique styles and then sold the hearts. Many of the hearts have found their way into private homes and offices. While walking through Union Square in early August 2007, I came across three amazing examples that were still in the public. Thanks to the artists who painted these amazing creations. see pictures and story

Austin did something similar yet I never heard about it until recently. Instead of hearts, they painted guitars and placed them around town.

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