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Good morning, everyone.
Thank you all for attending.
This is NCRA's TRAIN program,
and it precedes the bulk of the Boot Camp program,
which will take place over the next three days.
But this is NCRA's really newest initiative,
and it's a grassroots nationwide realtime training program.
And this committee here has been hard at work.
We have Sue Terry, Regina Tell, Toni O'Neill,
Sarah Nageotte, Ron Cook, and Viola Zborowski.
And there's also Lisa Knight and Linda Kaiser
and... I'm missing one.
And Mary Burzynski on the committee.
So thank -- the committee's been very hard at work,
and they've put together a really interesting program,
and I know they'll be around all weekend to talk about it.
So without further ado, here they are.
Thank you, Adam.
As Adam said, I am Sarah Nageotte.
I am one of your NCRA directors on the board.
And I want to welcome you.
It's always difficult to have a seminar
at 8:00 in the morning on a Sunday.
So I thank you all for being here,
and really you're going to have a great couple of days here,
and NCRA thanks you as well.
First I would like to get started by a couple things.
If you have questions, we're really going to ask you
to write them down, and at the end we want to leave some time
for a little give and take.
Also, there's a half-hour break after this seminar
and the start of Boot Camp.
And we will be available to answer any questions.
We'll also be available
throughout the next couple of days as well.
So if you have anything at all, please don't hesitate to ask us.
We will be here.
So what is TRAIN?
The last two years, the NCRA board embarked on
a Writing Our Future program.
And one of the major findings from the Writing Our Future
is that NCRA must do everything within its power
to encourage more court reporters
to become realtime capable.
So we've formed the Grassroots Realtime Training Task Force,
and out of that you have TRAIN.
And what it is is we want to encourage
reporters around the country to set up small-group trainings.
And this has been done in many states successfully,
and you will hear about that
throughout the rest of the morning here.
So NCRA wants to be at the head of that,
and we want to help each and every state,
but we really need the grassroots,
the members and the state leaders,
to encourage this and make it happen.
So why realtime?
And you've really heard this over and over,
and you're probably sitting there thinking,
"How long have we heard about realtime?
Is this going to be anything different?"
So why realtime?
You make more money.
You can make more money.
It's a premium service.
It commands higher fees, more business referrals,
and it puts you in line for promotions.
A lot of times we are hearing now
that attorneys that are introduced to realtime
are asking for realtime reporters
not so much because they want the service
but because they know that it --
the realtime writers demand a higher quality,
and they want that quality.
And you save yourself time and money.
You reduce transcription time by as much as half.
Has anybody that provides realtime to themselves noticed
that you are reducing your transcription time?
WOMAN: Mm-hmm, yes.
The quicker turnaround time by your scopists.
They don't have to work as hard.
If you're changing things on the fly
and you're watching your screen as you go
in the courtroom or on the deposition site,
your scopists are turning out those transcripts as well
faster for you.
And that frees up your time.
So what do you do if you have more time?
You can enjoy life a little bit, enjoy your kids a little bit.
Court reporting does not have to be
a tiring and exhausting career.
We can enjoy life, and realtime will help that happen.
The marketplace is demanding realtime.
We are in a world today
of "we want it, and we want it now."
So realtime makes that happen.
The rough ASCIIs.
If you're providing realtime to yourself,
even if the attorneys are not getting that or the judges,
but they want something at the end of the day
that they can work off of to prepare for the next day.
It's cleaner because you're looking at it
throughout the day.
Daily copy: that's more and more happening,
where they want it right now, and they want the final product.
And it also puts you in line for CART and captioning careers.
CART and captioning careers, that's instant, obviously,
the captioning on TV.
And if you're a realtime reporter,
you can go achieve to that next level.
The bottom line is realtime is going to make all this happen.
94% of our members say NCRA
should promote realtime as the "clearly superior method."
And this came out of the Writing Our Future survey.
Our members, us, working reporters everywhere,
say that we should be promoting realtime as the superior method.
And 28% of judges surveyed out of
the Stenographic Opportunities in the Courts study
said that the most important steps that reporters can take
to enhance their role in the courtroom of the future
is to provide realtime.
Now, 28% may not seem like a lot,
but that was in the overall survey.
And it was a "check what ones you feel are important."
But of all of them, realtime was the highest.
The next closest percentage was 19%
in that judges felt that reporters should provide access
for e-filing and e-case management systems.
That can also be achieved by realtime.
So our clients in the official arena
-- the judges, the courts -- feel that realtime
is what stenographic reporters should be doing.
So why do reporters provide realtime?
We embarked on a survey just this month in February
of 2,000 reporters.
And you had a choice: are you a realtime reporter,
you had this set of questions.
Are you not a realtime reporter, you had this set of questions.
Of the reporters that do provide realtime,
63% said they do it in order to save on transcription time.
And I will say, you all received a copy of this.
And at the end of the day,
and I will touch on more a little bit later,
each state that's in attendance today
will receive a jump drive that has a copy of this presentation
as well as other resources, and I'll touch on that later.
And it is a whistle... and a jump drive.
So you'll get more information on that in a little bit.
So what are the biggest benefits of realtime?
Save on transcription time.
And what's interesting to know is now 71% said that.
So even if that was not their objective
in providing realtime or doing realtime for themselves,
71%, the highest, noticed that that was the biggest benefit.
I am going to turn it over now.
Again, this is an all-inclusive program; it's still developing.
And we're going to be touching on some things
that we are going to provide along the way.
And we're really just going to all wrap it up.
But next I'd like to turn it over to Toni.