Microsoft® Live Meeting Overview
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Interactive: Engaging for Groups
of All Sizes
Integrated: Integrates with Microsoft
Office and Existing Systems
Easy to Use: Familiar and Easy for Organizers
and Meeting Participants
29¢ per
minute / per person Includes Toll- Free Audio
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Live Meeting gives
you the power to work together with colleagues, customers,
and suppliers, no matter where you are. For online
meetings, training, and events, Live Meeting is the effective
meeting solution that enables you to collaborate with either
individuals or large groups—without leaving your desk.
With meeting attendees participating from their PCs, you
can kick off a project, brainstorm ideas, edit files, collaborate
on whiteboards, and negotiate deals at a fraction of the
cost
and hassle of travel.
Live Meeting provides unique interactive
tools, integrates with your existing systems and productivity
applications,
and incorporates a familiar and easy-to-use interface that
improves
remote collaboration and enables effective meetings for companies
of all sizes. And with the real-time collaboration capabilities
in Live Meeting—with proven 99.99 percent uptime availability
and always-on Secure Sockets Layer encryption—you can
conduct every meeting with confidence.
Interactive:
Engaging for Groups of All Sizes
Whether you are brainstorming with a remote colleague or presenting a go-to-market
(GTM) campaign to an audience of 1,000 customers, Live Meeting offers
a media-rich set of tools that enable you to customize the level of interactivity
needed
with your meeting participants.
Meet your company's collaboration needs
from small spontaneous meetings to
large training sessions and presentations.
- Leverage the full capabilities
of Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations with high-resolution
support for
all types of animations and slide
transitions, and enable participants to better engage by switching in
or out of full-screen
view as they choose.
- Share any printable document on-the-fly for
online review or editing. With this high-resolution viewer,
participants can zoom in or zoom
out without losing the quality of text and graphics.
- Share control of software
on your desktop without losing sight of participant feedback
or text questions. Meeting participants can request control,
and presenters can quickly grant control to any participant. Presenters
can customize the
color depth and screen resolution to better interact with participants
who have varying
degrees of desktop capabilities.
Encourage audience participation
through collaboration features such as the Question Manager.
It enables any of the presenters
to view
and respond
to
questions by
replying to individuals or to all participants. Other interactive
tools include: Real-Time Polls, Mood Indicator, Chat, Annotations,
Whiteboard,
Text Slide,
and Web Slide.
- Draw, annotate, and type simultaneously to simulate
the natural interactivity of an in-person meeting environment.
Share ideas while collaborating
on a whiteboard or brainstorming on a Text Slide.
- Retain all meeting documents
and ongoing annotations, edits, and whiteboard and
text brainstorming sessions in your virtual meeting room.
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Integrated: Integrates with Microsoft Office and Existing
Systems
Through integration with your existing systems, you can use Live
Meeting to collaborate in a convenient online meeting or training
environment.
From meeting
setup and
preparation to meeting management and follow-up, Live Meeting provides
a streamlined environment for hosted Web conferencing.
- As part of
the Microsoft Office System, Live Meeting enables you to initiate
ad-hoc meetings from Microsoft Office programs such as Microsoft
Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office
PowerPoint,
Microsoft Office Project, and Microsoft Office Visio, or from instant
messaging (IM) applications
including Microsoft Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger. Organizers
can schedule
meetings using Outlook (even when offline), send separate meeting
invitations to presenters and attendees, and automatically include audio conference
information in every meeting invitation.
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Easy to Use: Familiar and Easy for Organizers and Meeting
Participants
Because Live Meeting incorporates the Microsoft Office look and feel
and streamlines common meeting tasks, participants from around the
world feel
at home using
it. And because it is a hosted Web conferencing service, you can
quickly and easily
deploy Live Meeting across your department—or across the entire
company around the world.
- Get new users up to speed through quick,
in-meeting help resources for common tasks tailored to the
meeting phase and the role of the meeting
participant.
- Manage the presentation or classroom easily through intuitive
drag-and-drop opening of files, thumbnail navigation
of documents, and a common
resource list that maintains an inventory of content available for the meeting.
- Easily
maintain control of meeting participants through features
such as Meeting Options that enable the presenter to
turn interactive
tools on or off on-the-fly depending on the level of interactivity needed.
Other participant management features that work to improve
efficiency include:
- Promotion
of attendees to Presenter or Active Presenter
- Viewing attendee
profiles
- Sending e-mail messages to participants from the
meeting
- Inviting and removing participants from the meeting
- Schedule
a meeting anytime—this virtual meeting location is
always available for ad-hoc meetings—no reservation
required. By sending meeting guests to the Meeting Lobby
instead of directly
to the meeting,
the presenter
has an additional mechanism to screen participants and permit
or deny entry.
- Record your presentation as easily as clicking
the mouse, without any special equipment required.
It is easy for people who missed
the meeting (or class) to view recordings on-demand using Microsoft Windows
Media Player
or
by downloading the recording for viewing at their convenience.
You can leverage your presentation many times with full-quality recordings.
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