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Event Management
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Microsoft Live Meeting offers an outstanding and lavishingly rich set of event management features.
Usability is very good and flexibility in the number and variety of options offered to the user is excellent.
The basic access menu to all of the event management facilities is very simple and easy to navigate through.
If you decide to use the option "Meet Now" you can setup a meeting in no time at all by filling out information in a screen just like this one (click to enlarge).
If you intend to schedule a meeting for a later time, a simple one-page scrolling Schedule Meeting form, like the one below, provides direct access to all the features and options available to the organizer (click to enlarge).
To send out invitations to contacts for a scheduled Live Meeting the organizer needs only to input the list of attendees emails that need to be invited in the following dialog box (click to enlarge):
The presenter/organizer can choose also among two alternative configuration setups offered by Live Meeting. These are nothing else but two "presets" leveraging the number of different features and facilities that can be controlled via the Meeting Options control center. (See Moderator's Controls for more info).
A section labelled View - Reports in the main navigation provides access to a well organized and easy to understand summary table reporting key data relative to the previous meetings held online. Here is an example (please click to enlarge to 1:1 size).
Microsoft Live Meeting finally provides an excellent set of Preferences controls divided in User and Meeting Preferences.
The User Preferences screen allows the editing and management of the presenter password, the setting of the default reference time zone as well as a few other basic options allowing the activation of ActiveX controls for the sending of Outlook invitations and the ability to select personal info, reports extension, billing info and (in the future) the preferred interface language.
On the other hand the "Meeting Preferences" facility offers an exhaustive array of options allowing the presenter/organizer maximum control and flexibility.
Deserving a special note of attention is the introduction of a few uniquely valuable options that will make the day of many online event organizers. These fine touches show more than anything else, the great amount of LISTENING and appropriate solutions and refinements adopted over time by the Placeware team. Here is a very representative sample of them:
The presenter/organizer can also easily "manage" all events by accessing the Manage facility which provides her with an overall administrator control over all of the settings and configurations of each meeting scheduled, ongoing or already run.
The Microsoft Outlook Add-In
With the add-in, you can perform Live Meeting Web conferencing tasks using Microsoft Outlook, without logging into the Live Meeting or entering your personal place meeting ID and key.
After installing the add-in, you can:
This add-in is NOT available in the trial version of Microsoft Live Meeting. For more info please see this page.
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Posted on October 09, 2003 at 08:16 AM
Updated on November 17, 2003 at 03:22 PM
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