Blind Entrepreneur Creates Online Entertainment Venue for Blind Consumers
TalkingCommunities.com president, George Buys, blinded by a rare eye disease at 40, announces the final details for a joint venture with the blindness portal OcuSource.com. The new venture brings online conferences and entertainment to consumers, and will operate under the corporate name LetsGoExpo.
(PRWEB) June 8, 2005 -- TalkingCommunities.com president, George Buys, blinded by a rare eye disease at 40, announces the final details for a joint venture with the blindness portal OcuSource.com. The new venture brings online conferences and entertainment to consumers, and will operate under the corporate name LetsGoExpo.
Buys, blinded from an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, also known as RP, has been heavily involved with voice-conferencing over the internet for years. Ive had a vision of internet communities based on old-fashioned community values, complete with education, interactive entertainment, e-commerce, and topical discussions," states buys, founder of web-conferencing company, Talking Communities (www.talkingcommunities.com). LetsGoExpo is a dream come true for me," confirmed Buys. Weve created LetsGoExpo so that any company, or any industry for that matter, can provide accessible online events for educational purposes, business, or even for entertainment."
Buys met Dr. Lou Lipschultz, founder and CEO of a comprehensive web portal for the blind in March of 2005. Within a few weeks, we realized we had almost exactly the same vision. We each had what the other needed," states Lipschultz, an optometrist and former executive with a major manufacturer of devices for those with total blindness and partial loss of vision, also called low vision. The skills of the web-development team at OcuSource are a perfect compliment to the technology available from Talking Communities," says Lipschultz.
The LetsGoExpos first event, the OcuSource Expo begins Wednesday, June 8th at www.ocusource.com. LetsGoExpo integrates web-conferencing into a website designed to be easily navigated by blind users. This strategy allows event managers to bring the events to the end user, rather than the end user to the event. Users equipped with a computer, internet access and a microphone with speakers can visit the Expo, attend presentation by industry experts, meet online with exhibitors to discuss products and services, as well as attend entertainment activities. The Expo boasts an impressive lineup for its first event with Pat Boone, major country music stars such as Merle Haggard and Ray Price, streamed old-time radio, as well as narrated television events supplied by Narrative Television Network.
About Talking Communities:
Michigan based Talking Communities (www.talkingcommunities.com) creates interactive synchronous web conferencing tools which provide customers numerous capabilities in both their business and personal lives at a very affordable rate. Live voice-over-internet conference rooms are suitable for public or private business meetings, employee training and support, family get-togethers, educational purposes, public and private interactive events, live broadcasts, and web presentations. The company entered the market with its Audio Tips resource located at www.audio-tips.com. Audio-Tips is a family-oriented voice-chat community open to anyone seeking friends, support, fun, and learning.
About OcuSource:
California-based OcuSource.com, LLC is the owner and operator of www.ocusource.com , an internet portal dedicated to assisting the low vision and blindness industry with essential online resources. OcuSources mission is to enhance access to products, information, and services to individuals with vision impairment, as well as the professionals who assist them, through a set of integrated web-based resources. OcuSource provides vision impairment-specific resources such as auctions of adaptive products and accessories, search tools to find local and national resources like doctors and agencies, as well as other tools useful to eye care and rehabilitation professionals. The privately held company was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Placentia, Calif.
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