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	Microsoft Live Meeting

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Microsoft Live Meeting offers a very good online presentation system with an outstanding set of event management facilities. Probably, along with the presenter controls this is the key strength of this Web conferencing tool.

The system is highly customizable and Microsoft has attempted to simplify the interface and the controls available.

Participants can be enabled to take control of the presenter computer through a very simple facility integrated into the application sharing control.

Among the new features introduced by Live Meeting that have impressed me is the newly acquired ability for the presenter to interactively customize through a simple facility which components and features will be active and "visible" in the meeting room. This simple tool provides great flexibility in the final use and applications that can be made of Live Meeting and it tremendously enhances its potential range of applications. Well done.
Also the participants can easily select which of the Live Meeting presentation panels to display and they can also easily communicate back to the presenter and to other participants.

Many good shortcuts are now available making the presenter work extremely easy and efficient. Great usability. This is a very important feature when making a presentation online and I am surprised by the number of web conferencing tools that are still overlooking this aspect.

The help system has been completely redone. It is very comprehensive and rich with visual illustration and links to related topics. Well done.

Events can be recorded in full and made available to others for access at a later time. Unfortunately the Recording Control Panel is not active in the try-out version.

Overall I found Live Meeting a great Web conferencing tool with no audio, with a pricing model in line with other "enterprise" tools available on the market. Live Meeting offers impressive usability improvements and the whole lot of Placeware great tools.

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Posted on September 30, 2003 at 02:38 PM

Updated on October 02, 2003 at 09:26 AM

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