Online events and streaming

April 19th, 2010 @ // No Comments

On Friday 16th at lunchtime we were contacted by the wonderful people from Seminars.ie. Their dilemma was how to get some of their guest speakers into Dublin’s National Concert  hall for an event over the web the next morning. Unable to travel with the European airspace lock down. The volcanic ash plume from Iceland had put the [...]

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Autocad through online meeting rooms

April 8th, 2010 @ // One Comment

As is often the case with group collaboration most industries require additional professional expertise when working on and managing projects. Engineers, Architects and Designers are one particular group that can benefit from sharing their screens and collaborating remotely. In this short two minute tutorial you can see the autocad application being shared through video from [...]

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Dervala Hanley speaks with Limerick Open Coffee

March 11th, 2010 @ // No Comments

DERVALA HANLEY RETURNS to Limerick for a few days and has agreed to a roundtable Social Conversation in Limerick’s Absolute Hotel for two hours from 1100 on Wednesday, 10 March 2010. Dervala sparked creative thoughts during a classroom lecture in Tipperary Institute a few months ago, pointing to specific ideas about innovation, creativity and working productively in highly [...]

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Social Media webinar

February 12th, 2010 @ // No Comments

Krishna De, a well respected social media consultant in Ireland has a few pointers on using the new webinar solution from onlinemeetingrooms.com. Take a look at what Krishna’s take on the solution is. I have been hosting teleseminars and webinars for 5 years – however here in Ireland not too many organisations host webinars and [...]

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Turn your webinar into a whiteboard

February 10th, 2010 @ // No Comments

Teachers and educators generally are looking at whiteboards these days, in this tutorial you can see how to use webinar to broadcast your slides and with the integrated drawing facility you can turn your webinar into a whiteboard. Particularly useful if you are considering training people remotely. We suggest using a tablet for better control – [...]

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How to create a Poll during your online meetings

February 3rd, 2010 @ // No Comments

The information gathered from polling those that attend your online meetings is a valuable way to ascertain and evaluate the quality of your presentation or indeed the information retained by your students. Polls call be set up before your meeting or even on the fly and activated at any time during your meeting. You can also set up [...]

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Remote speakers and Health Informatics

February 1st, 2010 @ // No Comments

Back in 2006 we were approached by the Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) to provide services for the streaming Dr. Susan Newbold’s presentation from Maryland in the U.S. After some initial training with Dr. Newbold, she was able to login from her home office and give her presentation to the conference where a group of [...]

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Every business can learn to use social media

January 28th, 2010 @ // One Comment

Shiv Singh (Author of Social media for Dummies)  gives his keynote presentation at the recent launch of Seesmic Look. Well worth watching if you have an interest in Social media.

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Sometimes a wave is as good as a shake

January 26th, 2010 @ // No Comments

There is no question, representatives, at times, need to shake the hand of the person they do business with. What happens after that is where online meetings come in. Business done? Connecting online then allows for a continuous stream of face to face meetings… this reminds customers and groups of people that sometimes a wave [...]

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Working with the OPEN COFFEE movement

January 25th, 2010 @ // One Comment

“Historic First for National College of Ireland Business Incubation Centre” The National College of Ireland Business Incubation Centre recorded an historic first this week as journalist Mark Little conducted a live webcast interview with incubation centres from Limerick Institute of Technology and the Tipperary Institute, using online meeting room technology. The session was initiated by [...]

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