Announcing WebEx™ Version 7.3 Enhancements
Communiqué recently upgraded to WebEx™ Meeting Center 7.3. The new WebEx Meeting Center offers an updated user interface and access to enhanced features and functionality. Now meeting on-the-fly, sharing presentations and other documents is easier than ever. WebEx™ Meeting Center 7.3 now includes:

• Improved user interface design
• QuickStart screen - Provides one-click access to commonly used features
• PowerPanels™ - Open, close and resize participant, chat, notes, video and polling panels
• Floating incon tray - Enables floating panels when sharing applications
• Multipoint video - Show images from up to four video webcams
• Polling enhancements
• More..

Click here to view full release notes. To register for a training session click here.

Helpful Resources:

• WebEx Quick Reference Guide
• WebEx Detailed User Guide

Communiqué Conferencing Selected by Elearning! Magazine as a Leading Webinar Solution for 2nd Consecutive Year
Elearning! Magazine readers and professionals from organizations nominated and cast ballots for the best e-learning solution providers across nine product categories in the Best of 2006 Elearning Awards. “Winners of this year's awards represent the best and the brightest among hundreds of solution providers," said Catherine Upton, Publisher of Elearning! Magazine. “More than 50 percent of e-learning professionals rely on word of mouth and referrals as a source of product information,” Upton said. “This awards program provides a venue for adopters to share what brands and solutions really work for them.”

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Best Practices for a Successful Webinar Event

Many companies have recognized the benefit of web and audio conferencing for conducting meetings, however, sometimes feel their virtual events lack the results they were expecting. The problem typically lies with the approach and delivery of an online event. When planning your webinar, plan as if it were a live presentation. Web conferencing technology not only makes tradition seminars more affordable, they facilitate reaching a wider audience, and add considerable advantages over traditional onsite seminars such as interactive Q&A, real-time collaboration, and the ability to digitally archive for playback from a company website...more

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Make More of Your Monday Meetings

The Monday morning meeting is a business week staple. It’s a great opportunity to update teams on what happened the previous week and set goals and expectations for the week to come. Web conferencing can add an extra element to these meetings turning them into interactive, collaborative working sessions that really start the work week off on a positive note.

Adding web conferencing doesn’t mean increasing the complexity or formality of the normally quick and casual Monday “touch base” conference call. A link to a web conference is as simple to incorporate into the meeting information that you typically distribute as are the dial-in numbers and passcodes for the audio conference. And you can even elect to use the same web conference link every week – a kind of standing meeting room for your weekly calls.

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