Footprints

Welcome to RefinedData’s Footprints site dedicated to helping you reduce your Carbon Footprint while running your organization more efficiently.

Footprints is a must-have tool for any organization concerned about the impact of their business on our world. Footprints is a simple add-in for Adobe Connect Pro, the most powerful and flexible web collaboration tool available in the market today. One of the many unique features of Connect Pro is the ability it provides companies to extend the basic functionality with custom applications written entirely in Flash. Footprints is just the latest custom application pod from RefinedData a Premier Adobe Connect Pro Authorized Reseller.

Every time a salesperson or a service representative gets in a car or on a plane, they are contributing to global warming and the reduction of the world’s finite supply of non-renewable energy resources.

With the widespread availability of Web-based conferencing and virtual classroom technology, it’s now possible to teach, sell, train and collaborate with colleagues around the globe for a fraction of the cost of traditional meetings. And those cost savings are measured in more than just monetary terms.

Did you know, that it takes a large tree an entire year to absorb the CO2 produced by a single car journey of just 60 miles (100Kms). Many of the meetings and presentations we all attend could be be just as effective if held virtually on the web using products like Adobe Connect Pro.

Footprints revolutionizes web conferencing by actually calculating the Carbon and Financial savings of your virtual meetings and tracking the cumulative benefits across your entire company. There’s nothing quite like it available anywhere.

Footprints, works by calculating the approximate location of each attendee in a virtual meeting based on their IP address, converting that to their physical Latitude and Longitude and then determining the roundtrip distance they would have to travel to get the the meeting host’s location and back home again.

Using widely accepted formulae for converting travel distances to the Carbon Emmisions that those journeys would generate, we calculate how much CO2 each person has saved by attending the meeting virtually instead of jumping in a car or boarding a plane to be there. We can’t of course calculate how much time and other resources you saved in the process.

Footprints shows each attendee their Carbon savings, the total savings of the entire meeting and how much the organization has saved the planet over all of the meetings that have been run using the tool. It’s a great way to demonstrate to your clients and employees that you take the impact of your operations on the environment seriously.

Learn more about Footprints and how it could help you in your organization on the following pages.

We’d also be happy to discuss how RefinedData could help your organization implement a complete eLearning, Training or Web-Conferencing solution to save cost, improve efficiency and do your part to help reduce the impact of your operations on the environment.

We offer the full range of Adobe Connect Pro software as well as our own hosted LMS solutions based on an enhanced version of the popular Open Source Moodle platform. Offering additional functionality and features as well as tight integration with Connect Pro, it’s no wonder we call it RefinedTraining.