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Web Touring - Co-BrowsingPowerPoint Presentation Facilities Main Presence Awareness A co-surfing facility or, as VCOM labels it, "Follow me" mode, is available to all users. This feature works quite well and reliably. The technology behind this functionality is quite simple. The URL addresses of Web pages to access are redistributed to all meeting participants. When the "Follow me" mode is activated, all session participants will thus be able to see the Web sites being accessed though the loading time for each one may certainly differ due to varying connection speeds. A common limitation of standard co-browsing technology is the fact that participants of a web touring session will not be able to see when the presenter scrolls a page to show a particular item. In addition, it is easy for participants to "branch off" in any direction by clicking links that appear on any web page. To "sync back" those curious participants that may have gone off to see some secondary links VCOM provides a "Synch Web Page" command which "re-aligns" all participants to see the same page.
Though there is no easy way of monitoring when participants are all seeing a co-browsed Web page the moderator can request the participants to signal their status by briefly pressing the left Ctrl key -which provides a visual clue next to each participant name (meaning: I am seeing the page) or by giving a short notice in the text chat box.
The URL box utilized to input the addresses of Web site pages to access is not too user friendly. A drop down menu stores a history of all URLs inserted but this becomes easily unusable as too many URLs clog up its access. To clean up such history of URLs one needs to access the Options -> Clear URL's command.
There is no easy way to store selected Web page addresses as one does with Netscape bookmarks or IE favorites. Available controls allow the presenter to move forward and backward among pre-visited URLs and to refresh the currently displayed Web page. What VCOM resellers tout as the advised best method of presenting content available on Web pages to be co-browsed is to "pre-navigate" all of the URLs required, and then by using the backward and forward navigation controls, go through such selected Web pages more easily during the actual presentation. Unfortunately this works only in some instances and when the predetermined path of URLs to navigate is not too long.
PowerPoint Presentation Facilities Main Presence Awareness
Posted on June 18, 2003 at 05:04 PM Updated on November 17, 2003 at 03:05 PM
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