Problem with media uploading (RESOLVED)
Hi,
This morning Fuze Meeting experienced a malfunction with media uploading and transcoding. We’re very sorry that this disrupted your day. We understand that Fuze Meeting provides a service that you use at critical times and the downtime, rare as it maybe; we at Fuze Meeting take it very seriously.
We were able to resolve the issue in 30 minutes and allow media uploading and transcoding to resume.
Please know we are working tirelessly to ensure this doesn’t happen again. It is incredibly painful for us see this happen. We hope you accept our apology and we thank you for being a Fuze Meeting customer.
The Fuze Meeting Team
Fuze Meeting for iPad
Like most of you, we at Fuze Box have been eagerly awaiting the news of the iSlate, iTablet…iPad. It’s quite nice if I say so myself…but it’ll only be as good as its content. So our intrepid Fuze Meeting team are already working on developing the easiest, boldest and most powerful collaboration service for the iPad. We have a couple of months of work to do while Mr. Jobs and team deliver the iPad but we’re confident that web conferencing and collaboration will never be the same. Stay tuned to this post by subscribing to the RSS feed for future announcements.
You Beta Help Us. Or Else.
Fuze Meeting is looking for a special, select few to join our Beta Testing Group and help us test out our new products. In the coming weeks we’ll be testing Skype integration and new and improved screen sharing. Imagine how impressed your friends will be when you tell them about your tour of the Fuze Meeting Lab. We have a coffee pot that will blow your mind.
Add a comment or email us to participate! Better yet – @reply us on twitter at @fuzemeeting
Major advancements. Minor annoyances.
Dear Fuze Meeting-ers,
Unfortunately, as we pave the way to web conferencing perfection, there’s bound to be a little roadwork. If you haven’t logged in since the last release, you’ll be prompted to install the new plug-in. *pause for moans* Now then. Once you install, you’ll enjoy these spanking new features:
- Better screen sharing performance
- A single click to accept all attendees into a meeting
- Improved audio conferencing dialog box with clearer directions
- Enhanced buttons to allow posting of replays to Facebook and Twitter
- Quick rejoin to a meeting in case of unexpected browser crash
- Improved flow to easily upgrade your Fuze Meeting account
- Flash logs you can attach to report problems to us should one arise
Leave us feedback on these changes by clicking the “comments” link.
Sweet! New TSA rules!
Avoid this line, use Fuze Meeting instead.
Thanks to the December 25th bombing attempt, the TSA is implementing increased measures to deter potential terrorist threats. Despite your undoubted state of elation from knowing you’ll finally be safe when you board a plane, we strongly advise you to seek other means of conducting important meetings. Web conferencing might be something you’ll want to consider.
While online meetings don’t afford you the perks of traveling – namely security pat-downs, screaming children kicking your seat, and those hilarious flight attendants – it does allow you to meet with whomever you need to from a remote location of your choice and cut travel costs. We know that doesn’t compare to free peanuts, but it’s a start.
Happy New (Fiscal) Year
With the New Year comes a renewed budget that’s just begging to be spent. But before you blow half a year’s allowance on flat-panel TV upgrades and that company bowling alley that’s been in the works for over a decade, take a minute to think practically about where to invest. Hint: web conferencing solutions.
Web conferencing gives your team a dependable, flexible, and most importantly, cost-effective way to hold web meetings with each other wherever your peeps find themselves. (Not the marshmallow peeps. They have no auditory capacity.) Plus with the money you save on travel costs, you can fund company bowling nights. Finally, your chance to bust out that old shirt from league play and rock everyone’s socks off.
Web Conferencing in Health care and Medicine
A conventional meeting involves a lot of preparation prior to the meeting and its success depends on several factors such as, presence of all the meeting participants in one room. With the advent of the web conferencing tools, the very idea of a meeting has changed. One of the industries that have benefited the most from this technology is the health care and medicine industry. With advancement in web meeting and conferencing technology, doctors are no longer limited in their ability to treat and interact with remotely located patients.
Since the health and medicine professionals are required to maintain confidentiality about their patient’s history and background, they look for conferencing solutions that are reliable and secure. Ease of use is another important factor since the patients should be able to use the web meeting software with ease.
- TREATING PATIENTS REMOTELY: A major advantage of online meetings is that you don’t have travel to remotely located patients as this would take a lot of time and time could be an issue depending on the severity of patient’s condition. Through a web based conference system a doctor can interact with patients via the web and evaluate their condition online. Using the audio conferencing tool, patients can provide details on their problem and the doctor can make analysis and diagnosis.
- COMMUNICATING WITH PATIENTS REMOTELY: Patients who have internet access and a web conferencing tool can easily reach their doctors, regardless of where the doctor currently is. This way doctors can easily follow up with their patients even when they are on a move.
- SHARING PATIENT REPORTS, PRESCRIPTIONS VIA WEB MEETINGS: When it comes to sharing patient reports, a doctor doesn’t have to organize a regular meeting but can simply resort to a web conferencing tool and conduct a virtual meeting. Over a web conference, the doctor can share reports, prescriptions and other related data.
Rehabilitation Systems, extensively uses web conferencing via Fuze Meeting to conduct online training for their cancer, heart failure, diabetes and pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Below are some of the benefits of web conferencing in the health care industry as quoted by Roger K Campbell, Director of Program Development at Rehabilitation Systems-
As the graying of America continues to increase, our day presses forward to develop and utilize increased efficiencies in health care through web conferencing and telemedicine, as the merger of technology and medicine. The ability to smartly outreach and serve the advancing requirements of chronic disease is imperative for stability in a rapidly changing health care system. As 2011 approaches and the fist of the baby boomer generation retire, our national health care resources will become strenuously taxed. Yet, with this health care crisis, we see the emergence of bright minds, ways and solutions. New web conferencing software developers, Fuze Meeting and medical scientists at Rehabilitation Systems, have created the merger of technology and medicine which represents a maximal online outreach of rehabilitation program development and rehabilitative health care for people suffering from cancer, heart failure, pulmonary and diabetes disorders. These advances in online training and conferencing are poised as a substantial cost containment solation to a burdened health care system.
Happy Holidays from Fuze Box
The title of the post really says it all. As we all finish up our last-minute holiday shopping and get ready for the caloric overload over the next few days, all of us here at Fuze Box want to wish you a Happy Holiday season. If you’re one of our Fuze Meeting customers, we sincerely thank you for your business this year and look forward to providing you enhanced web conferencing services and continued value in 2010.
From us to you, have a happy and safe holiday season.
Your friends at Fuze Box
Increase Efficiency and Profitability in Restaurant Business by Web Conferencing
Training is an ongoing process in the restaurant and fast food business and it has undergone a massive change with the advent of new software and technology. Have you ever wondered how Pizza Hut or McDonalds stick to their standards in the way they serve, treat customers and have a uniform attitude of service that their customers are used to? The credit goes to the owner of the company who has some preset standards and strives to see that his employees are polished to that perfection. The usual method of training or having an in-person meeting to keep everybody posted on recent development or modifications has been overridden by the concept of web conferencing and desktop sharing. Restaurants and famous food chains seem to be taking advantage of this advancement in web collaboration technology.
The process involves all the employees of a particular branch, for instance, to spend a weekend over a training class that they can access together or individually from their personal computers or other internet access points. During the training course, restaurants and food chains have the benefit of also exposing employees to basic etiquette or behavior patterns that should be uniform across all outlets. These real life situations are created via videos, images and case studies and files that can be shared online. Ever since its advent, the web meeting concept has brought in a high demand because of it’s quick accessibility. Web meetings also host tools for desktop sharing where a trainer could share his desktop, rather than video, power point or image files on his system with others. A free web conferencing access to the employees both for their feedback and for small tests taken from time to time could increase communication and pave way for a better employee training. The topics could vary from simple to complicated:
- A web conferencing solution helps lower the training costs significantly as the interaction takes place via the web and involves no travel.
- The web meeting solutions enable having meetings where the training center can bring together geographically separated employees from different branches to inform them of upgrades and latest changes in the menu items, pricing and other related information.
- Choosing the best web meeting software is very important for the company as most employees aren’t technically trained and they need an extremely user-friendly online meeting solution. Web meeting services that are easy to use even for a beginner are ideal for a restaurant or a fast food chain.
- A browser based training program is always much more accessible and useful when compared to a program that requires a software download. The software download depends on the internet connection, speed and download permissions on the employee computer, which can sometimes be a problem.
By blending the advancement of science and their training needs, restaurants and food chains have been able to establish superior standards for themselves.
Need to grow your business? Have a video camera? Read this…
Our Chief Strategy Officer and Official Email Hijacker, Patrick Moran, just posted an article on tips to use video to grow your business. Since we’re in the web conferencing business and have a relentless focus on high definition, online meetings, we think about video a lot. So check out Patrick’s post and we hope it helps you. Oh yeah, and lock your computer down, you never know when Patrick will come by!