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WebEx Layoffs and Management Changes?
I just saw a column in the India Times stating that WebEx recently laid off employees and changed top management roles and titles. The article claims that several middle-management employees were aske...
Action In The Collaborative Meeting Space
Wednesday was a busy day on the wires for companies talking up their web conferencing solutions. But it was almost entirely devoted to collaborative team meetings rather than event software for large ...
Web Conferencing For Training And Education
Stream57 put out a press release today announcing new features targeted at the use of their webcasting product for e-learning and training applications. This started me thinking... I've been noticing ...
Publicare Updates Their Web Conferencing Comparison
Publicare just announced an update to their comparison study of web conferencing solutions. The comparison site is www.webconferencing-test.com. I have written about the site before... At first in a d...
Innovative Features In Conferendum
I got an email from Wolfgang Berger in Germany, asking if I would like to take a look at a relatively new piece of web conferencing software from his young company, Conferendum. I took him up on the o...
Charging For Webinars - Part II
I don't often post follow up articles on my own blog entries, but "Can You Charge For Webinars" generated enough public and private comments that I thought it deserved another look. First of all, I wa...
Can You Charge For Webinars?
Of course you can charge people to attend your webinar, but is it practical? It's often small businesses that ask me for advice and assistance with setting up fee-based web seminars. These may be cons...
Flashy News From ON24
It's a busy day for ON24. They just announced a new Adobe Flash version of their main webcasting console, and introduced a completely new product - A virtual show platform. The Flash-based webcast con...
iLinc Releases Version 10
iLinc put out a press release today announcing the release of version 10 of their web conferencing software. Hosted clients should automatically see the new release the next time they log in. I got a ...
Cool Conference Live - Free and Easy
Every so often I get a call or an email from someone saying that they want to hold a very basic web conference, but that cost is their number one concern. They don't want to spend a lot of time......
I Look At iLinc
On Monday, iLinc Communications announced that they had sold the majority of their audio conferencing assets to Premiere Global Services for $4.1 million. The press release also said that the company ...
ON24 Grows Volume
ON24 published a press release today that was focused on management changes in their sales organization. Fair enough... Congratulations and best of luck to the new guys heading up North America and EM...
PresenterNet Adds Animation
The support team at PresenterNet quietly sent out email notifications this week that their technology has been upgraded to allow additional functionality for users. The big enhancement is that Present...
New Features In Adobe Connect Pro
Adobe just announced a new release of Acrobat Connect Professional that is supposed to be available by the end of the month. I got a briefing and demo of the software, but I have not had a chance to p...
ShowDango Provides Webinar Indexing
Showdango is online with functionality to let visitors search, sort, and click through to upcoming webinars and webcasts. It's still in beta mode, and I usually try to wait on reviews until I know a s...
Brainshark Offers Content
Brainshark recently unveiled an online service that lets users access recorded presentations by subject matter experts in various fields. It's called the Brainshark Content Network and is officially i...
ReadyTalk Adds Event Management
ReadyTalk just announced the addition of event management to their web conferencing service. I got a chance to go through the new features with Mike McKinnon, the Social Media Director for ReadyTalk. ...
Product Review - Netbriefings Proclaim
The folks at Netbriefings asked me twice to review their newest product called Proclaim, so I finally gave in. It is primarily intended for creating recorded on-demand presentations that combine slide...
ON24 Supports Self Service SaaS Solution
ON24 issued a press release today announcing a new version of their hosted webcasting technology. The new service is labeled Webcast Center Pro (WCC Pro) to distinguish it from Webcast Center Enterpri...
Trends In Web Conferencing
This is yet another in my series of posts from the iLinc customer summit in Arizona. Andy Nilssen gave a presentation this afternoon in which he showed off several interesting trends, directions, and ...
Is Green Measurable?
I'm blogging from iLinc's annual customer summit, being held in Scottsdale, Arizona. Not much going on in town this week... Just a major golf tournament and a little event called the Super Bowl. Tomor...
Web Conferencing Usage Survey Now Online
Web conferencing technology/service vendors, this is for you. Nobody really knows the true size of the market and how widespread the use of our medium is. Asking the clients about their usage won't ev...
Adobe Connect Support Update
I just spoke to Tracy Wilson, the director of Adobe's customer care organization. We had a conversation last month after my article on problems with customer support for users of Connect Professional ...
iLinc Gets The Point Across
I just saw this short video from iLinc. It's selling the concept of web conferencing as well as promoting themselves (natch). Nicely shot, not too sledgehammer in the approach, and warmly humorous. To...
Adobe Connect Outage Yesterday
I got an email from an angry Adobe Connect Professional customer asking if I knew anything about the "Adobe Connect crash" on Thursday. I hadn't heard about it, so I contacted Adobe and talked to Davi...
Webinar Functionality Series Started
I just started a major new series of articles over on the Webinar Wire. Over the next few weeks I will discuss differences in feature implementation as found in various conferencing technologies. I'm ...
A Look At IVT Studio
Interactive Video Technologies (IVT) asked if I would like to do a mini review of their IVT Studio webcasting product. I agreed and in short order found myself on a conference with Phillip Whalen, the...
Adobe Support Frustration
I like Adobe Acrobat Connect. The Professional version has a lot of advantages for enterprise conferencing use. I even appear as a frequent guest speaker on Adobe's public educational webinar series. ...
Insight24 Opens New Syndication Channels
Insight24 has two new ways to promote recorded webcasts, podcasts, and videos that are registered on their network. These haven't been announced yet, so you are getting an early scoop. The first addit...
Continuing My Look At Microsoft Live Meeting 2007
I still can't act as a presenter using the Meeting Web Access (MWA) console. Recent tests included uninstalling all antivirus software from my machine and running Live Meeting from the Administrator's...