The Royal Wedding of William & Kate

The global village is preparing for the Royal Wedding of William & Kate in London, today (their time) and what a wonderfully celebratory occasion it is for people to be distracted from the usual day to day issues where gold carriages, crowns and tiara’s are prominent in the streets of this great city. Or is it?

The television audience is estimated to be 2 billion people and it is a public holiday in Britain and for the first time it seems there is an air of negativity regarding this type of event in the ‘home’ country. Employers are bemoaning the lost production and revenue; demonstrations will undoubtedly occur and in Australia talk of republicanism will be bubbling away again as evidenced by Q and A last evening.

With the event carefully stage managed an Australian comedy group, ‘the Chasers’ have been banned from the event. Surely they cannot be serious. 10000 journalists are descending upon London and yet no ‘Chasers’ absurd really and I quote Jerry Seinfeld –

“It’s a classic English thing of let’s play dress-up. Let’s pretend that these are special people.
“That’s what the royal family is – it’s a huge game of pretend. These aren’t special people – its fake outfits, fake phony hats and gowns.”

And yet many Australians will enjoy the coverage and many more magazines will be sold as people from over 60 countries around the world tune in.

With Chorus Call’s teleconferencing we have available for our clients, toll free access to many of these countries around the world, and if we don’t have a country connected with a toll free number and you need it – we will get it.

Time for a Chorus Call?

Queensland Is Changing

South East Queensland is changing in many ways as the world globalises and migration of all types and reasons continue to occur.

Recently I was at a meeting with another Chorus Call employee held in a Queensland government office, there were four people in attendance, all have chosen to live and work in Brisbane and surrounding suburbs and yet the origins of all in attendance was as disparate as could be.

One from South Africa, another New Zealand and another from Wales in the UK while I, the writer of this blog was born in the bush in Victoria.  (blog posted by an American)

Many years ago the US opened its doors to migration and became a ‘super power ‘delivering the world’s first ‘Melting Pot’ of peoples. This trend continues today in many places and enables the wider community to celebrate diversity.

As the community grows and choice becomes more wide and varied, competitiveness and innovation coupled with high service levels become more important and this is what we are working to achieve at Chorus Call Australia, Brisbane based, office in Sydney and a Queensland company.

If you need a Chorus Call you should now know where to come!

Business Continuity

Recently I was talking to one of our clients across the ditch in Christchurch New Zealand, her name is Elizabeth and she quite graphically conveyed the horror of the earthquake in Christchurch, last February. Of course Japan’s experience was even worse, but Elizabeth described the terror of being in their office, first, flooring underneath them moving, objects falling, brains scrambling trying to remember the training they had received and what to do.

Outside the roads were bubbling, cars driving, buildings moving, shaking and debris falling with all of this happening in a short real period of time but our minds seem to slow motion these events for reasons not known to me. Their small and very beautiful city was being attacked and as someone once quoted, “mother nature does not know right or wrong, only balance and imbalance”

It is now 45 days since the tragedy and as the rest of the world moves on our friends across the ‘ditch’ continue to deal with issues following the quake like insurance damage and payouts, parts of the city remain unsafe and around 10% of housing has been either destroyed by the quake or will be by hand as many properties are unsafe.

We at Chorus Call have developed a product specifically to assist business communicate during these times of disaster and other stress tests with the launch imminent and the product being more than useful.

Check our website – its launching very soon!

Do you have a Business Travel Horror story?

As part of our new marketing campaign, Chorus Call Australia has been soliciting Business Travel Horror Stories.  In exchange for taking our quick 5 photo survey and submitting a story, takers are entered into our drawing for the New iPad 2 .

If you have a travel story you’d like to share, or would like to enter our random iPad 2 drawing, please visit: http://bit.ly/winiPad2 – Hurry, contest ends 12 April!

We have been receiving some excellent stories so far, below is one of our favourites.

Submitted Story:

"I had to travel from Melbourne to facilitate a training program in Wollongong on one day and another in Sydney the following day. Thank goodness I decided to catch a flight from Melbourne early on the day before. What should have been a four hour trip, at most, turned into a seven hour saga of traffic jams, delayed flights, missed transport connections at the other end and the loss of my car booking because I hadn’t been able to contact the car hire company while I was in transit to advise of the delays.

The following evening I had to drive from Wollongong to Sydney. Most of the trip was fine, until I got to within four kms of my destination. That final stretch took almost two hours as the traffic was at a standstill, for no apparent reason! On line training and conference calls will always be my first preference from now on!"