Quick tip: For your first webinar, shoot for the 45 minute session
The truth is, if you’re hosting a webinar, it’s pretty likely that you’re an expert in your subject area and you could probably talk for days and days about it.
Control yourself (and respect your audience.)
Whet their appetite and say enough “big picture” stuff to establish yourself as an expert, but most importantly, give your audience confidence that respect their time. With your Fuze Meeting subscription, you can have as many webinars as you like for the same monthly fee, so consider splitting up your 2 hour monologue into a few bite-sized sessions.
Avoid PowerPoint fatigue and focus on your message instead!
In the end, you’ll leave them wanting more.
Fuze Meeting is the #1 Choice for Lawyers with iPads!
The mobile collaboration site, iPad 4 Lawyers put up a post reviewing meeting apps for the iPad. (You can read it here.) The author included all the big ones in his comparison: GoTo Meeting, WebEx, Adobe, and Fuze Meeting. And for the most part, the comments he used to describe our competitors are pretty much the same things we’ve noticed when testing out their apps.
In response to the review of our iPad app (he gave us “a solid B+”), we have to say…thanks! And we’re confident we’ll get into the “A” category very soon!
His one major area for improvement – a desire to annotate directly from the iPad – is a feature request we’re aware of and are working on.
That said, he missed 2 major features that would be sure to interest any tech-savvy attorney. (more…)
What’s Current In Collaboration!
From Fast Company
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net on The Future of the Cloud
CEO of our cloud brethren at Box.net talks about the future of the cloud and why his enterprise model is disruptive.
“For the first time in enterprise software history, individuals at any level can adopt technology to help solve their problems.” (more…)
Save the earth from your office!
Earth Day is here! Maybe it means that you’re going to give a little cash to offset your carbon footprint, or maybe it means you’ll make a point to finally learn about all the things that can go in a compost bin. (We’d love to help you, but it’s different in every county.) Whatever you plan to do, take a second to consider most of your waking hours.
That’s right, it’s probably work!
So why not take some steps to see what you can actually do to make a real difference in your office? (more…)
3 things you need to know about video conferencing etiquette
Lighting, clothing & background
Well, a week into your video conferencing subscription, and I’m sure you’ve noticed…there’s a way to do it well, and then there’s the “other way.” Needless to say, there are about 4000 little tips and tricks we could dish out, but for NOW, we’re going to focus on the three most important and easiest to master.
1. Lighting matters. The difference between one light bulb is, well, the difference between night and day. The only difference in these images below is flipping on one little desk lamp. So do yourself a favor and brighten up!
Tip: If you have a bright light shining right at you and you *still* look dark, you’re probably backlit. If able, spin yourself around so you’re facing into the light, and I bet you’ll look a lot better.
How to get Apple’s Keynote in your Webinar
As you know (because we’ve said it over and over and over again), Fuze Meeting allows you to export your Apple Keynote files and use them as shared content in a Fuze Meeting.
While our Keynote support great, some folks do better with a few instructions, so you have 2 options. you can watch our webinar replay of how to do it, or you can scroll through the embedded PDF below! Let us know if you have any questions.
How To Use Eventbrite for Webinar Registration
Ever since we launched webinar mode, we’ve gotten quite a few questions about registration.
While Fuze Meeting doesn’t have event registration in the product quite yet (it’s coming soon!), we’re always happy to direct people to our just-as-easy-to-use-as-Fuze-Meeting recommendation for free webinar registration: Eventbrite.
Our guess is that if you’re looking for event registration, you’re looking to do one of the following:
- Promote your event
- Offer event registration
- Capture lead information (more…)
DimDim! Give us your tired, your huddled masses yearning to meet online
UPDATE: Our 2-day demo for displaced DimDim users will take place
January 11th and 12th from 9-5 Pacific time
Stop on by any time for a lesson on how to easily transition from DimDim to Fuze Meeting!
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Original Post:
When Salesforce announced their acquisition of DimDim this afternoon, twitter was alight with tech-savvy folk wondering what they were going to do for a web meeting solution when DimDim locks its digital doors.
@heatherlloyd
OMG, @dimdim aquired by saleforce and being shutting down. Crap. Suggestions for Web-friendly Webinar platforms? Anyone? Anyone?
@ JulReDesigns
Oh @DimDim. Your timing couldn’t be worse. #acquired
You think collaborating in 4G doesn’t matter?
Think again.
Have you seen our home page right now (click on the learn more)? We are embracing the fact that we’re fantastically 4G. And, that we’re in fact, the ONLY 
option if you have a 4G device.
So – what does it all mean?
For you non-techies out there, there are two things you need to know about 4G for now:
1. That download and upload speeds are wicked fast
2. That it’s an entirely different technology than is used for 3G
This means that if you don’t have a 4G device, you won’t be able to experience the benefit of 4G – connection speeds when you’re on-the-go that rival those you currently have on your computer. If your mobile device can go as fast as your computer, you’ll become less dependent on the computer for the sake of a good connection and THAT means that you just got more mobile.
So what will you notice?
May I Offer You Some Webinar
With That Update?
Wow, Fuze Meeting just hit the Android tablets on Thursday and already with another major update for the browser-based software? Well, I can promise you two things: the engineers haven’t been sleeping much and Fuze Meeting just got a whole lot better. We’ll delve into these more later, but …
First things first: We’ve just released a webinar version! To launch in webinar mode, you’ll need to be subscribed to our Pro account (view the pricing page), so if you don’t have Pro, you can upgrade by clicking on the ‘My Account’ button once you’re logged in. BUT, once you have Pro, there’s no extra charges to access webinars.
In webinar mode:
- You can have up to 100 attendees
- Attendee information is hidden from other participants
- All attendees are auto accepted into the webinar
- All attendees start the meeting on mute
And, these other updates will be hitting everyone’s account:
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