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Linking Butte to the World - without Airfare...Video Conferencing
The Montana Standard, By Tim Trainor, April 2010
A professional videoconferencing company has opened in Butte, linking the Mining City to the rest of the world.
Fisher Video Conferencing, Court Reporting and Videography, a family-owned business based in Bozeman, opened an office in the Silver Bow Center, 125 W. Granite St., last month.
Chuck Fisher had been working as a court reporter in Gallatin County since 1978, and he watched as his industry fell into heavy demand. Each year there were more lawyers, more lawsuits - and fewer court reporters.
"There is a real lack, nationwide," Fisher said via high-speed video link from Bozeman. "This is a way for us to try to fill the gap."
Along with his wife, Laura, and their three children, the Fishers first began to experiment with video before the technology could keep up. Now, however, high-speed connections have sprouted up around the country and the world, from Kazakhstan to Havre. "We've linked up everywhere," said Chuck's daughter, Carisa, business development coordinator for the company. "The smallest towns in Montana, the East Coast, even Europe."
The service is used for more than court reporting, however. Carisa said that a number of industries can find ways to take advantage of the technology. In the past, she said, companies have used video conferencing as part of the hiring process, interviewing numerous job applicants from across the country in the course of a day.
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Fisher Video Conferencing: Effective Solution for Meeting "Face to Face"
Alleviates Travel Hassles, Conserves Resources, Saves Money and Time
Bozeman Magazine, November 2009
Over the past year, Fisher Video Conferencing, Court Reporting and Videography has opened a network of video conferencing facilities throughout the state; offering an affordable alternative to meeting in person that is virtually as good as being there, saving Montana's professionals invaluable time and money.
Originally founded as Fisher Court Reporting in Bozeman by Charles and Laura Fisher, the family-run company (which currently employs all three of the couple's children) has offered court reporting, videography, legal support services, and hospitality for over 30 years.
Through these years of experience, the Fishers have recognized the unrelenting travel schedules of attorneys and court reporters, the long distances between Montana towns, the unpredictable travel conditions of winter highways, the increased travel hassles of air travel, and the waste in cost, time and resources of business travel.
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Video conferencing service aims to ease court reporter shortage...
Helena Independent Record, by John Harrington, Aug. 14
Hoping to grow his family business and embrace modern technology to accompany his age-old profession, veteran court reporter Charles Fisher of Bozeman launched Fisher Video Conferencing, a statewide business that employs his entire immediate family.
The firm has video conference locations in six Montana cities, including one in The Placer on the Downtown Walking Mall in Helena.
"There's kind of a shortage of court reporters in the world, and it occurred to us we could bring the business to other cities using this method," Fisher said.
Court reporters are responsible for producing an accurate transcript of proceedings in courtrooms, as well as pretrial depositions and other legal hearings. Fisher has been in the business for 31 years.
He's joined in the video conferencing venture by his wife, Laura, daughters Carisa and Kasey and son Dereck.
"This allows court reporters to have a presence in more areas, and can be a tool for attorneys as well, enabling them to stay in their hometowns and take depositions in other towns," said Carisa Fisher...
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Video conferencing links distant meetings...
Northwest Montana Daily Inter Lake, by K.J. Hascall, Aug. 02
It's not uncommon for attorneys to drive many hours to take a deposition before a trial.
Nor is it uncommon for prospective buyers of Flathead Valley property to fly from across the nation or world just to look at homes.
For those people, there's a solution to long trips and lost productivity: video conferences.
Fisher Video Conferencing, Court Reporting and Videography opened an office on Main Street above Big Sky Martial Arts in February. It is one of the family-owned company's six Montana offices. Other offices are in Bozeman, Helena, Billings, Great Falls and Missoula.
The company is capable of hosting video conferencing with offices all over the country.
Chuck Fisher started the business 31 years ago for court reporters (the firm now has 15) and attorneys and has expanded, with the help of his wife and three children, into a service that his daughter Carisa Fisher said is based on hospitality and hosting...
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FISHER VIDEO CONFERENCING: Escalating travel hassles and costs should increase the popularity of videoconferencing for business and academic meetings...
Billings Gazette, Mont., Jan Falstad column, Nov. 23
Fisher Video Conferencing Services of Bozeman has started a videoconferencing network connecting Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena and Missoula, and the service could expand to Butte, Kalispell and smaller Montana cities. The high-definition system was started by the owner of Charles Fisher Court Reporting of Bozeman, which has been in business in Montana for three decades.
"If you have a client out-of-state and you want to do a progress report with them and you have pictures and plans, this videoconferencing puts you face-to-face with your client," Charles Fisher said.
A Missoula hospital used the service to narrow down six applicants for a fundraising job. And a man vacationing in Yellowstone National Park drove up to Bozeman for a job interview in Minnesota.
"He came here from the park, sat down and interviewed in Minneapolis and he was hired," Fisher said.
Fisher has opened five offices, including a Billings office in the old Custer Hotel above Jake's Restaurant.
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