Fuze Meeting at an Apple Store near you
It’s no secret that here at Fuze Meeting we pride ourselves on our mobile collaboration expertise. So it’s always nice to receive, and share, great news about any of our mobile apps.
Today, we can officially announce that our awesome Fuze Meeting iPad app is now on all iPads in every Apple Store in the U.S.!
Our iPad customers love the full range of functionality our app offers, including HD video conferencing, so we’re confident that Fuze Meeting will wow the millions that enter Apple Stores on a daily basis.
Huge thanks to our product and development teams for the hard work on getting our app pre-installed. It’s a huge compliment to have a company who values quality user experiences, such as Apple, include us on their marquee in-store product.
If you happen to be in an Apple Store any time soon, please check us out and tell us what you think by visiting our Facebook Page or on Twitter @fuzemeeting.
Thank you Apple and thank you to our amazing customers!
Webinar, Webcast, Online meeting, Web conference – Which is which!?!
As pointed out by BNET, we are in an industry that doesn’t really have a well-defined vocabulary.
You’re going to talk to your team or your whole company with PowerPoint, video, maybe there’s a handout. Should you use a webinar? Webcast? …Choosing the right tool can be overwhelming.
So, what does Fuze Meeting offer? When will you have to go to another source? Without further ado, here’s a quick glossary recap and a note about what you can do with Fuze Meeting!
Web conference or online meeting (BNET also includes web meeting/webmeeting in this camp)– Hosts and attendees collaborate with the help of the internet. All attendees can share their computer desktops, collaborate/annotate on uploaded media, or collaborate on a whiteboard or notepad. (more…)
Fuze Support – All Fancy & New
As you perhaps have noticed, the Fuze Meeting support team is migrating our support tools and processes to a different system. The largest component of this migration, our fuzemeeting.com support pages, is now up! Go to Fuzemeeting.com and you’ll now notice a new left-hand panel for chat/problem reporting and a new top level navigation item for support – both utilizing Zendesk. You can also go directly to our support pages by visiting http://support.fuzemeeting.com.
With our new support tool, what can you expect? (more…)
Mendocino Film Festival uses Fuze Meeting to connect a director with his audience!
At FuzeBox, we pride ourselves in being the web conferencing solution to a myriad of different types of businesses and professions – everyone from after school tutors to board members of Fortune 50 companies utilize our solution for its ease of use and feature rich platform, but when the Mendocino Film Festival, one the fastest growing festivals of its kind, came calling we knew we were in for a new type of challenge.
Recently the Director of the Mendocino Film Festival, Michael Fox, reached out to us with a dilemma: the director/lead actor of the award-winning movie The Athlete AKA Atletu/Atleten (about Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bilkia) was scheduled to attend the festival and host a Q&A session after his screening. However, he was now being called to NYC to accept yet another award for his astonishing film.
The Director, Rasselas Lakew was distraught! How could he be in two places at once to promote his film? (Enter Fuze Meeting, stage left)
With only days before the scheduled Q&A session between the Director and his adoring Mendocino fan base – the Fuze Meeting Team sprang into action! By the following afternoon we had sent Rasselas an iPad2 and had him trained on our app!
And…it went swimmingly! Check out this picture of Rasselas as he accepted the award for best narrative feature, from 3,011 miles away!
And how did they think it went? Well, we’ll let them speak for themselves!
“Fuze Meeting forged a connection between the filmmaker and the audience for an intimate Q&A session in a unique and authentic way,” declared Michael Fox, Executive Director of the Mendocino Film Festival.
“The Video conference I had via Fuze was extremely user friendly…it was easy to set up and it’s connection was fast and effective. The whole experience was phenomenal” said Lakew Rasselas director of The Athlete.
We love our jobs here at FuzeBox and getting to hear feedback like that from a new user makes the race to be the best in web conferencing that much more rewarding!
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This blog post was brought to you by guest blogger Floyd Tucker! When not rocking out with his band or whisking off to Mendocino to facilitate cross-country meetings , you can find him training new corporate clients on the wonders of Fuze Meeting.
Why Telepresence is a Corporate Jet
Perhaps you’ve seen the news … we’ve just launched a new product: Fuze Telepresence Connect! If you’re familiar with telepresence systems, you probably see what a game changer this is. BUT…if this whole telepresence idea is new to you, then let’s see if we can clear things up…
Picture a corporate jet. Really fancy, pretty much only for executives, it’s expensive to buy, it requires a whole team to operate, it costs a lot just to maintain in a static state, and enormously more if you want to actually use the plane as a plane and turn the thing on. It really is THE ultimate flight experience, but most of the time…it just sits there on a tarmac – not being used and gobbling up money.
Fuze Telepresence Connect
Maybe you’ve seen the news today, but FuzeBox is out to revolutionize the telepresence industry with our newest launch, Fuze Telepresence Connect. Check out this video, and we’ll be updating the blog with more info shortly!
The future & our contest winner!
Last weekend we co-ran a contest with TechCrunch where entrants had to comment on what the future of teleconferencing looks like.
Congrats to the chosen winner Jerry Schuman who takes home a shiny new iPad 2 with his comment:
Weekend Giveaway from TechCrunch!
A rare weekend blog post from you friends here at Fuze Meeting, we just wanted to let you know that we’ve sponsored a giveaway for one shiny new iPad 2 via TechCrunch!
All you have to do is
1. Like us on our Facebook page.
2. leave a comment explaining comment on the TechCrunch article describing what you think the future of teleconferencing will look like.
We’re already getting some great responses and the article has only been up for a few minutes! There seems to be a lot of love for holographic video conferencing and robots. Hm…looks like our dev team has some work to do…
10 Free Resources for the PowerPoint User
By now, I’m sure most of you know that uploading content to your online meeting is the best way to have your presentation or images look their best. BUT… our stunning PowerPoint/Keynote upload functions can only look their very best if your presentations are as slick as you are, so here’s a list of tips to get you on your way to a jaw-dropping presentation! (more…)
You guys really care about hold music!
We couldn’t stand it any longer! We held a poll, and we had over 200 people vote over the past couple of days. “Ambient” was such a runaway favorite that we just pulled the trigger! (When you know you’ve got a winner, why wait?!?!) Congrats to those who recognized “Smooth” as the outgoing hold music that we’ve had for about a year…you’ve been paying attention!
So, one more time – feel free to jam out to “Ambient” from our last post – or just start your meeting a little earlier and sit back and enjoy the smooth grooves.
We REALLY appreciated all the comments about our hold music, so thanks for the feedback everyone!
To answer a few of them:
Hold Music vs. Silence vs. Beeps (more…)
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