Does Fuze Meeting work on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion?
Yes indeed!
As you head into your weekend and update your Apple software, rest assured, you can still meet with Fuze Meeting!
Two quick things to keep in mind. (more…)
Our #1 Requested feature: Export Fuze Meeting Recordings
The truth is, we’d known there was a request or two for this shortly after launching, BUT we just put this feature officially on the road map. WHY, you ask, did you FINALLY get around to this?
Because we are getting great feedback on our support pages, and our #1 requested feature is to allow exported recordings! We of course want to make our customers happy, and knowing what you want helps us to give it to you. (more…)
Burning Man uses Fuze Meeting to present their Desert Arts Preview
If you’ve been watching our Twitter stream, then you already know that we love to tweet out Fuze Meeting recordings and webinars that would be interesting to a larger audience (so if you have any, let us know!). For one of the coolest uses of Fuze Meeting we’ve seen so far, check out a webinar in action as the Burning Man community (YES **THAT** BURNING MAN) presents their annual Desert Arts Preview.
https://www.fuzemeeting.com/replay_meeting/9dcd7ce9/1661461
A little background: (more…)
Current in collaboration: Fuze in the Nuze
Two articles we think you should be sure to check out:
A review from PC Mag for Fuze Meeting Pro
It’s a pretty beefy review, and the editor, Will Fenton, obviously spent a long time looking at just a narrow feature set of ours (we love it when editors take long hard looks!). He has a lot of feedback – some good, all honest. Take a look and let us know what you think? Or…if you have specific questions, feature requests or feedback, be sure to leave it on our support page! (more…)
Q&A With Fuze Support – Failing PowerPoint Upload?
This is part of an ongoing series where we highlight useful posts from our support pages. While we love to share helpful tips on our blog, you can always find up-to-date information and even participate in the conversation at http://support.fuzemeeting.com.
Q: My PowerPoint upload is failing. What do I do?
A: The majority of PowerPoint files will upload without problems. If you are getting errors, here are some reasons PowerPoint files fail to upload:
- Power Point contains embedded video and audio. Instead remove the video and upload it as a file to Fuze Meeting.
- The Power Point was originally created on a Mac and then later modified on a PC. You may want to run the PowerPoint compatibility check, fix any errors and try again.
- The Power Point is very large in file size and contains a lot of slides (over 200) . Reduce the size or break your slides up in smaller sizes and upload them.
- The file is marked as read only. Remove the read only flag prior to uploading your PowerPoint
Have a comment, other question, suggestion? Then visit our support pages and continue the conversation!
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.
Help Choose Our New Hold Music!!!
Every so often, we grow wearisome of the same hold music day in and day out! That said, the FuzeBox team has narrowed down our selections to a top few, and we need your help to choose the winner! (You *may* recognize one of them if you’re a loyal Fuzer.)
Polls are open through the end of May!
If none of these songs are particularly inspiring to you, don’t worry! We plan to change our hold music more frequently going forward, so if you have any songs (royalty free, please!) that you’d like us to check out, let us know in the comments section!
Customer Success Story – Flickerbox, Inc.
Interactive marketing agency Flickerbox finds success using Fuze Meeting for project management and 
connecting remote teams.
Founded in 1999, Flickerbox is a full-service interactive marketing agency that blends marketing methodologies with strong visual design and progressive technical expertise to create websites, lead generation tools, and product demos for companies in the B2B technology space.
Flickerbox’s favorite things about Fuze Meeting:
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The need:
One month into the company’s WebEx subscription, Flickerbox CEO Paul J. Martinez noticed that their new web conferencing software had virtually no adoption. It turns out the development and production teams had such a hard time figuring out how to use it, that they eventually gave up on web meetings all together. Needing to unite his geographically-remote teams, the company signed up with Fuze Meeting and the online collaboration commenced.
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.
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