May 20th, 2010 @ admin // One Comment
Over a 30 minute time slot Ciaran got to engage with up to 25 people
February 12th, 2010 @ admin // 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 teleseminars at the moment. With services like OnlineMeetingRooms.com and their new simple webinar service, I predict that may change!
Webinar in Action.
Out of interest here are the results of the polls I ran today with the participants – the webinar was about blogging, podcasting and online video:
- How likely are you to implement social media in your business in the next 90 days – 60% of the participants said yes, 20% did not vote and 20% were unsure
- Have you ever attended a webinar previously – 30 of the attendees had attended a webinar previously
- Would you attend a webinar in the future if it was a paid event – 75% of the attendees said yes!
- Was the OnlineMeetingRooms.com webinar platform easy to use – 100% of the attendees said yes.
Webinars For Lead Generation And Boosting Profits Made Simple – Review Of OnlineMeetingRooms.com
January 5th, 2010 @ admin // 2 Comments
Companies, organisations or governments can save money, tax payers money, bottom lines, mileage allowances, work efficiencies and get true return on investments. They must absolutely accept the virtual option in 2010 and beyond through online meetings. So often touted by the so called and ever increasing large entities that are MS and Cisco, government bodies are typically directed for various reasons to buy into the employers within their country. Of course, employment and revenue is on the mind of every elected politician. The fundamental flaw in democracy starts here, politicians cannot get elected without funding, who funds the politician ? And so unified communications or “unfunded communications” (if you fund it) started. What a ridiculous waste of money and time this term and implementation causes. What smart phone battery or laptop truly supports voice and video over IP for any length of time? What software and what proprietary licences do you need to subscribe to if your organisation wishes to avail of these services ?
Open source video conferencing has been around for many years, notwithstanding the power of the flash plugin, why reinvent the wheel? – just upgrade your switches … get a little more bandwidth, even get a dedicated element to the management of your bandwidth, you have the kit! you probably have the network – web based, without the need for massive investment in servers, no need to buy anything else with the exception of a webcam and a headset.. how hard can it be to reduce your annual spend on meetings via travel?
Accepting our political leaders are not software savvy for the most part, their advisors are supposed to be. Do you need to install something ? #FAIL. Do you have to have windows for it to work ? #FAIL. Do you need propriety hardware for it to work ? #FAIL. The solution must be web based for future proofing and economy of scale. Bandwidth is the key, switches allow data transfer, everything else is down to your vendors “cloud” or in our case rackspace << a data center, why would your company take on more than you need to… why reinvent the wheel?
December 8th, 2009 @ admin // No Comments
A Piece from InsideView
This academic semester, I’m bringing founders, promoters, directors and effective social media communicators into my Social Media classroom and letting them explain how they frame their online business dealings with a personal dimension. We will record and share most of those guest appearances through clips recorded through Online Meeting Rooms. Those success stories reveal honesty, passion and commitment to the extended online communities that I’ve used to good effect since 2004. In 2010, my students will have stories >> read the full post
A Piece from the Anseo Blog.
After a couple of months of trying, I finally found a school willing to try out videoconferencing with me. Using Online Meeting Rooms, a brilliant online package from http://www.onlinemeetingrooms.com, my school, Carlow Educate Together hooked up with the Athy Model School, 20km down the road for a Christmas Carol sing-off.
Each school sang two Christmas carols to each other. Our school were treated to two popular Church of Ireland carols and we sang “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” and “Ceallóga Sneachta ag Titim”. The kids were really enthusiastic and clapped and cheered each rendition. Read the rest of the post.
A Piece from the IIA
Our white papers are now coming close to publication. We intend to widen the circle of collaboration and with this in mind we plan to publish the documents (via the wiki) in draft format. We will then invite people to review and post comments directly to the wiki. We also intend to host a review session for each document, online of course, using the services offered by OnlineMeetingRooms.com. I’m personally very excited about this as it provides the opportunity to gather the expertise from practitioners and interested business professionals in a constructive and engaging manner. Read the full post.
Using Firewire DV and onlinemeetingrooms.com
Getting the most out of desktop web and video conferencing through onlinemeetingrooms.com can be as simple as taking an old DV camera and porting it through your firewire option. In most cases webcams suffice but if you want that extra clarity and powerful zoom Onlinemeetingrooms.com supports DV along with high resolution bandwidth server side. Thanks to Bernie Goldbach for the use of his video.
So many business professionals rely on PowerPoint to get their message across to an audience. As previously demonstrated the New .FLVplayer allows you to stream a flash video into your meeting. I use a number of different tools when it comes to online meetings. One I particularly like is Camtasia 6 (which is Now also available for MAC) from Techsmith.com. (Download for PC here) Camtasia is highly recommended if you are involved with making tutorials, streaming presentations from services like Screencast , if you like slideshare or you’re involved with coaching and training. For the purposes of this demonstration I have borrowed an excellent PowerPoint from Mr. Bernard Goldbach A senior multimedia lecturer inTippinst.ie .What I have done is simple, I have recorded the PowerPoint (quickly, for the purposes of the tutorial) in Camtasia, rendered the video out in .flv format and hosted it on another great service, my dropbox. Then I’ve called the public URL (you can see the link in the image) and posted the URL in the .flv player. Notice too that you can allow users to scrub the play head, this means users can play, pause or “scrub” to the slide they want to focus on. This gives the viewer control over the pace of the presentation. You can also switch your guests video streams off during the video presentation. This can be a good idea sometimes when trying to reduce possible distraction from the main presentation video you want your guests to see.
VLE, Whiteboards, video conferencing and budgets.
Computers in schools from what I have seen, and agree with the author have been in place but rarely used. I have often discussed with Bernie Goldbach the need to connect Third levels to second levels in some form or fashion using onlinemeetingrooms.com We have done it before with guest speakers at Tipperary Institute and Principles of other Schools, in this case Daithi O Muruchu. Daithi was unable to attend the conference, he was streaming to the conference from another http://www.gaelscoil.com/in Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick. http://www.anseo.net/?p=1538
This is an example of how the principle of a first level school is able to get involved with a third level hosted conference. Whiteboards connected to a PC could give a valuable window into any third level or any School for that matter. As the Anseo piece goes on to say Schools can find the budgets for the whiteboard. If the school also has a broadband connection education could change significantly in Ireland with just a few simple connections. Teachers and lecturers could work with different classes in a simultaneous, sychronis way… Students, the digital generation are ready for this type of interaction, specialist teachers could extented their skill sets to class rooms throughout the country as well as to remote schools or desktops at home. Training is of course the key, the complexity of any “solution”, platform, VLE call what you like is the barrier to entry. Streaming Video, screen sharing and whiteboarding are the future, if so, many schools have them they are one step away from the digital classroom.
