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Benefits |
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| Planning |
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Scheduling
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Set
up events in less than 10 minutes and post them to a public
calendar, allowing participants to register for and join your
webinar. |
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Registration
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Use registration questions to capture attendee contact information
(and pre-qualify them) before your event.
Process registration requests and manage contact invitee lists
from one simple interface. |
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Microsoft®
Outlook® integration
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Increase
attendance through meeting invitations that allow invitees to
save the information to their Outlook calendars. |
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Practice
mode and presenter prep
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Conduct
a dry run without opening up the web event to participants.
Meet privately with your co-presenters before you begin your
webinar. Once you're ready, "open the doors" by unlocking the
event and allow everyone to join. |
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Accessing
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Full
or no download
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Prior
to an event, participants have the option to join with either
the full or light version (no download). The full version gives
participants access to all interactive web conferencing featues.
The light version is ideal for participants who only need to
view content and video, are using Macs, prefer not to install
software or have limited bandwidth. |
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Conducting
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Business
quality audio
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Use OpenGo® audio conferencing to automatically call you
and all participants when the web conference begins, eliminating
the need to remember dial-in numbers.
For high-profile events, use our Operator
Assisted Conferencing services. |
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Webcasting
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Allow meeting participants to listen to the audio conference
using their computer speakers. |
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Configurable
meeting interface
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Maximize your own viewing space for sharing documents, applications
or whiteboards by selecting 'Full Screen'.
Drag to resize all viewing panes and tool bars, or close and
open them with a single click. |
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Recording
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Create a fully synchronized playback that replicates a live
meeting, including all visuals, annotation, polling, audio and
video.
Choose to e-mail out an easily accessible link to the playback
secured with password-protection or download the recording to
a local machine or network. |
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Document
viewing
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Share any document or presentation by converting it into a format
that you can easily share and store in your virtual library.
Preserve your presentation's slide transitions and animations.
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Application
sharing
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Share any application regardless of whether participants have
it on their computer. |
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Browser
sharing
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Share anything on the web without allowing participants to surf
independently.
Pull from your existing bookmarks while keeping them private
from your participants. |
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Whiteboarding
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Collaborate and brainstorm within online meetings using a shared
online whiteboard. |
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Video
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Flexible
video options let you and your co-presenters take the podium,
ensuring all participants focus on your message. |
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Annotation
tools
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Focus
participants on specific content by using a wide range of annotation
tools. |
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Participant
Interaction and Management
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Chat
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Send private text messages to a co-moderator or participant
without interrupting the online meeting or web seminar. |
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Polling
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Gain immediate feedback from participants using polling questions
that are pre-planned or created on-the-fly.
Publish results in the online meeting, if desired, and use easy-to-access
reports to track responses. |
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Questions
and answer
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Effectively manage inbound questions. Take questions from the
group, answer them personally or assign them to others to maximize
efficiency of your web event. |
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Participant
list
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Monitor participants' activities during the online meeting or
web seminar using a detailed list of who is on the phone and
web. Customize your view to show details. |
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Force
full screen
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Set your participants' view so the document or application you
are sharing fills their entire screen. |
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Force
zoom/unzoom
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Set your participants' view so their screen automatically focuses
on a specific area of the document or application you are sharing
and return it to normal view. |
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Advanced
Security
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Optional
128-bit encryption
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Choose which features to enable for encryption, including video,
application sharing and document viewing. |
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Security
passcodes
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Add another layer of security with moderator-created security
codes unique to each online meeting or web seminar. |
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Conference
lock
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Prevent unauthorized access to your web seminar and limit disruptions.
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Post-Event
Administration
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Stored
documents
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Grant users access to posted documents related to your online
event and designate access options, including password protection,
to maximize flexibility and security. |
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Playback
of recorded events
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Choose who can access your recording by password protecting
it, e-mailing out a link for playback or downloading it to your
computer or network.
Detailed reports show who has accessed your recorded web conference
and how long it was viewed. |
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Online reporting
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Access online reports showing who registered for the event and
who attended as well as in-event details such as chat, Q&A and
polling.
Track activities outside the event by viewing details about
event playback and stored documents. |
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Site
Administration
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Raindance
Seminar Edition offers robust site administration capabilities
including:
- The
ability to add, update, activate and deactivate moderators'
audio and web accounts
- Log
in as any moderator to access their events, recordings,
documents, reports, etc.
- View
events in any state (e.g. not yet scheduled, scheduled,
in progress, completed, etc.)
- Access
site-wide reports on account creation and storage
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