Product Update: Fuze Meeting Launches The “Uh-Huh” Guy

Posted by Fuze Meeting - Kristen

Responding to an overwhelming number of comments on our blog (almost too many to read!), the product development team at Fuze Meeting is excited to announce the extension of our services to accommodate the taxing day of the working professional. Let’s face it, we know multitasking is rough and every so often, you need to step away from your desk to take care of some bid-nezz. Or, maybe you just can’t take the high pitched squawk of your CFO any longer (I sure can’t). NO MATTER! Fuze Meeting delivers!

Save that voice for the opera, Pavarotti.

For a nominal fee of $3 per meeting, attendees and hosts alike can opt to have the pre-recorded “Uh-Huh” Guy (or Gal!) chime in with the required “I’m here” noises that can attend that boring meeting so you don’t have to.

We know your personality and titillating voice are ever-so unique, so we’ve provided some options so you can present a perfectly tailored persona to attend the meeting that was inconveniently scheduled during your afternoon nap. To quote a lesser-appreciated philosopher, Stephanie Tanner, “How RUDE!”

Community Guidelines
and the No-Tolerance Ninjette

Posted by Fuze Meeting - Kristen

We realize if you’ve made it to the Fuze Meeting site and its associated blog, then you’re already probably a certified genius who knows how to conduct him/herself in an online community. But lest we are accused of under communicating, we thought we’d make it official.

• Do
  • Be chatty. We love opinions and inter-commenter conversations. We love dissent just as much as accolades (especially when witty).
  • Be courteous. Free speech has been all the rage for the past 200+ years, but please keep your comments in good taste.
  • Think first, submit second. This site is a public forum and once it’s up, it’s up. The web has an impressively long memory.

• Don’t.
  • Hate. Or use hate language/symbols, vulgarity or piss poor manners. We’ve got no tolerance for that business.
  • Spam. Setting the obvious Karma implications aside, this is still no fun and ruins the spirit of commenting. Spam includes identical repeat posting or posting anything unrelated to the topic and/or specifically intended to drive traffic to another site.
  • Break the law. Actually a good life-rule. Unless you want to go to jail. If you don’t know the law, learn the law.

We’re so excited to have an engaged and energetic community. Unfortunately, there are some e-baddies out there who can mess things up for the rest of us so we hired a no tolerance ninjette (female ninja) to do the dirty work.  Our ninjette has the right delete any comment or ban any user, with notice or with ninja-like stealth, at any time and for any reason. *swish swish* (ninja swords)

4 New Uses For Your Laser Pointer
(Now That You’re Web Conferencing)

Posted by Fuze Meeting - Kristen

I know. It was hard for me to let go also.
In the whole of history, has anyone ever declared “Behold, GROWTH” with such a sense of accomplishment as when pointing at a line graph with an invisible red beam? Of course not. Are on-screen pointers nearly as fun? No. And we can admit when we’ve been beat.

But don’t worry, we here at Fuze Meeting like to make sure you enjoy 360 degrees of customer service, providing life solutions for otherwise sticky problems.

4 New Uses for Your Laser Pointer

1. PET EXERCISE – Happy March and all, but did you really want to go outside in this weather?

2. PROTECTING HOUSE (also requires a smoke machine) – Any burglar worth his salt could tell you that a laser beam wafting in smoke at the front door means man eating tigers at the back door. Best to stay away.

3. DANCE PARTY LASER SHOW – Glow stick brandishers, step aside. There’s a new kid in town and he’s wielding a laser pointer. Next article: What To Do With Your Glow Sticks Now That You’ve Switched to Laser Pointers Now That You’ve Switched to Web Conferencing.

4. GO SEE AVATAR – Remember how the planet of Pandora used to be all blues and greens? Me neither! Bring 2 and enjoy the 3D experience before it’s too late!
Now slip that pointer in your back pocket, hug your kids and crawl into you own bed. After all, you chose to live here for a reason and thanks to a little web conferencing; you’re right where you belong.

Got a use for pointers that we didn’t think of? That’s what the comment section is for.

Photo courtesy of Sulmhoor

Sweet! New TSA rules!

Posted by ralenda

Avoid this line, use Fuze Meeting instead.

Thanks to the December 25^th 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.

So easy a 5 year old can do it!

Posted by patrick

As a dad AND a VP of marketing at a growing internet company in silicon valley, sometimes you need to work on the weekend.  Well, this weekend I bought a new Cisco Flip HD video camera and brought my 5 year old twins into the office with my while I worked on an upcoming Fuze Meeting release (top secret!).

The following video was produced as a result.  It is titled “So easy a 5 year old can do it!”  I am biased, but I suggest watching it full-screen.  It is under 2 minutes.

Fuze Meeting from Patrick Moran on Vimeo.

Now, I’ve used my kids in work videos in the past, but this roughly edited, raw sequence seems to capture the essence of their cute-ness, as well as the essence of our product.   I added a little obligatory ukulele music to make it flow. I showed it around the office, and people told me I needed to share it via our blog.  Hey, why not.

Let me know what you think of it.  And please share with your friends if you like it!

Video Killed the PowerPoint Star

Posted by patrick

Don’t get me wrong, I still love PowerPoint and all business documents in an online meeting.  But folks — the shackles have been removed.  Fuze Meeting brings HD and the ability to present, share, and annotate on HD video and hi-res imagery in addition to your standard fare of business docs.  You can do so much more!

Other web conferencing and online meeting solutions are like your air mileage plans, full of restrictions.  No video, no HD, too many steps to get a meeting going.  Ugh and sigh… We, the people, are all about video and imagery.  Would you buy a new TV that wasn’t HD?  Would you watch YouTube or Hulu video if it were all in text and bullet points?  I didn’t think so.  Why should you compromise quality anywhere else in your life, especially the part that generates a paycheck?  You shouldn’t.

Your demand for quality should be consistent in everything you do.    Fuze Meeting will deliver and will never make you compromise on quality.  Make Fuze Meeting your next scheduled or ad-hoc meeting http://www.fuzemeeting.com.

Posted by Patrick Moran for my friend Brook West.