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Meets in Pittsburgh, PA, June 3-4, 2003
MaritimeTV.com, an Internet TV channel on
the TVWorldwide.com network, announced today that it will
provide live webcat coverage of the Ship Operations Cooperative
Program (SOCP) meeting to be held June 3 in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
The
webcast meeting will feature presentations and a discussion
panel with an inland water focus. The webcast will conclude
with a presentation from Captain Ernest Fink, USCG, who
will provide an update on the Merchant Mariner Documentation
(MMD) & the Mariner Licensing and Documentation (MLD)
reorganization.
“We’re
very excited to again be offering the meeting proceedings
on the web to allow members who could not attend the opportunity
to tune in live for interactive participation,” commented
SOCP organizer Todd Ripley of the U.S. Maritime Adminstration.
“We appreciate the sponsorship participation from
our membership to make this possible.”
“The
SOCP webcasts we’ve done on the maritime tv channel
provide a whole new perspective to an SOCP meeting,”
stated Dave Gardy, chairman and CEO of tvworldwide.com.
“In the past years we saw how these webcasts worked
to enhance communication among maritime industry professionals,
part of the SOCP mission. We look forward to doing it again
in Pittsburgh. This is part of our ongoing effort to make
our new Maritimetv channel a community forum, driven by
interactive video content relating to the industry.”
Participants
should have the free real player installed on their browser
prior to the event and should log on by 8:45 am on June
3. Technical questions can be directed to 703-961-9250,
ext. 223 before and during the event. The event will be
archived through a link on the SOCP home page to www.maritimetv.com
for later viewing by those who couldn’t attend live
and also made available for syndication to interested maritime
sites nationwide.
About
the maritime TV channel
the maritime TV channel (www.maritimetv.com),
specializes in the production of video-based content for
the international maritime community. Streaming video service
provider tvworldwide.com, is building a network of internet
TV channels like maritime TV channel, each aimed at b2b
and special interest audiences worldwide.
About
SOCP
SOCP is a private/public partnership formed in 1993 to share
resources, and the application of technology to improve
profitability, ship safety, training and quality of operations,
equipment reliability, productivity and competitiveness
for it’s members.
About TVWorldwide.com
As a leading streaming video applications service provider,
TVWorldwide.com is developing a network of video channels
that is an affiliation of community-based Internet television
stations, each underwritten by a strategic partner, "aimcastingsm"
to targeted B2B and special interest demographic audiences
worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with strategic partners
to develop the latest in live and archived state-of-the
art video streaming content applications. TVWorldwide.com
was recently named one of the streaming video industry’s
“Hottest Streaming Companies” by Streaming Magazine,
www.streamingmagazine.com.
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