Presenters & Staff for 2005
Beginner Eclipse Training: Michael StarkmanIntermediate Eclipse Training: Marybeth Everhart
Advanced Eclipse Training: Jeremy Thorne
Beginning Realtime Training: Jan Fuller & Lynda Batchelor
Advanced Realtime Training: Jeremy Thorne
SearchMaster: Jim Barker & Lynda Batchelor
ESP Network Staff: Tim, Brenda & Julie Hollister
ASI Update: Greg Seely
Conference Wrap Up Review
Another hugely successful ESP Network annual user group
meeting was held in Las Vegas May 13-15, 2005. We
learned all about the upcoming Version 4 from Jeremy
Thorne, ASI’s director of research and development. The
various levels, beginner, intermediate and advanced, all
kicked their understanding of our great software program up
a notch, gaining plenty of tips and tricks on how to do things
easier and better. And tech support was on-site to assist
anyone personally who had computer issues. Jim and Lynda
Barker filled us in on how to prevent Disaster on our computers.
One of the keynote events was the ASI update by Greg
Seely, who, along with his wife, Portia, are the owners of
Advantage Software. He gave us some insight into what the
future holds for the company, and brought along two working
models of the Passport writer for all users to experience.
He’s hoping for some working models at the National Court
Reporters Association meeting in Phoenix, AZ, in July of this
year, with possible full release before the end of the year,
depending on how the manufacturing process progresses. It
still sounds like it will be an awesome writer, well worth waiting
for!
This year we gave away a Grand Prize of dinner and show
for two on Saturday night after the seminars concluded. Part
of the prize was also supposed to be a one-hour tour of the
Vegas strip in a Hummer limousine, but because of the prize
fight held at the exact time we had our reservation for the
tour, the city police banned limos from the strip for that time,
so we had to cancel that part. Jim and Lynda Barker were
gracious enough to give the lucky prize winner, Anne Hall, a
free copy of Searchmaster as a consolation prize. So she
still came out better than at the slot machines or tables!
We offered a beginning realtime class this year for the first
time, and are thinking to make realtime classes of some form
part of the training, also, and would welcome your suggestions,
comments or criticisms. It was discussed selecting
other venues aside from Las Vegas for the meeting, and
Brenda and Tim Hollister are looking into all the suggestions
made, so if you have more you’d like to throw in the pot, be
sure to email them at info@espnetwork.org.
Great raffle prizes, meeting up with friends from the past,
making new friends for the future, some winning a few bucks
in the casinos, others losing a few, shows, shopping, great
food – Las Vegas has everything and something for everyone,
so it will be hard to find a better location to please our
diverse group!