Advertise Free Food–And You’ve Got an Event!

Posted on March 12th, 2007 by admin

On Saturday night, I donned my i711.com polo shirt and headed off to the new Video Relay center in Schaumburg where i711.com was hosting an open house for the community. Robyn Girad, the Community Marketing Manager for GoAmerica which operates i711, gave a power point presentation explaining the new services. If you’re not familiar with relay services, it is a service that uses a hearing operator to “relay” calls from a deaf/hard of hearing person to a hearing caller. I can make relay calls using AOL instant messenger to call my doctor, neighbor, etc. and I can also use a video relay operator to make calls also. More information is available here: Relay and Beyond.

We had so many people crowded into the new call center that there wasn’t enough room to fit everyone in. Before we knew it, the food disappeared: