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Ken Molay
Cary, NC USA
Webinar consultant, blogger, and services provider
Interests: film, scuba
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omNovia Adds Speaker Notes And Other Updates
Last month I wrote a post saying that too few webinar/webcast products allowed presenters to see their PowerPoint speaker notes inside the conferencing console. The folks at omNovia must have been waiting for an engineering challenge, because it's just one... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at The Webinar Blog
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Patent Suit Could Affect Web Conferencing Industry
If you follow the web conferencing industry, products, or players it is worth your time to read the following long article from Roland Rick Perry on Seeking Alpha (a website for stock investors): Microsoft's Skype Named In Copytele Web Conferencing... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Should You Use Polls In Webinars?
Let's get your point of view as a webinar attendee and see how it matches other people's opinions about webinar polls. I would like you to answer this poll from your experience attending webinars, not hosting or presenting them. As... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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WebEx Reporting Insanity
I just finished one month of repeated emails, phone calls, and online test sessions with Cisco WebEx tech support. We found the answer to the problem I originally reported to them and in an attempt to save others the same... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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New Presentation Aid For PowerPoint
I just tried out a cute little add-in utility for PowerPoint called MagPointer. It gives presenters some convenient ways to interactively highlight information on PowerPoint slides during a slideshow presentation. If your web conferencing software relies on screen sharing to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Tips For Webinar Polls
Interactive audience polls are a marvelous feature of web conferencing software. They can engage an audience and give them an opportunity to feel like an active part of the discussion, even when there are too many audience members to hear... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Adobe Integrates Webinar Info With Web Page Design
Last month Adobe bundled some of its web management products under a new name. The new Adobe Experience Manager includes Adobe CQ for web content management and Adobe Scene7 for organization, storage, and delivery of rich media and other digital... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Web Conferencing Frustration–Uploading Pictures
I got a note from a reader detailing her frustration at trying to upload a head shot picture of a presenter in her web conferencing product. She kept trying and the upload kept failing. After some back-and-forth with a tech... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Katrina, hopefully if you provide a copy for attendees (and they ALWAYS ask for this, whether it's useful or not) you can provide it in electronic form and the majority will only view it online. If a lot of people print it out, it's wasteful, but I don't think you can pragmatically take that guilt upon yourself. The person who prints is ultimately the one who has to take the responsibility for using up resources.
Commented Apr 17, 2013 on Why Should You Print Your Presentation Slides? at The Webinar Blog
Why Should You Print Your Presentation Slides?
I work with many guest speakers on client webinars. I always tell them to print out a hardcopy of their slide presentation as a backup. They usually don’t. Why do I make this unreasonable request? After all, printing is inconvenient, wastes paper and toner, and makes it harder to incorporate las...
Webinar Presenters Want Speaker Notes
I keep hearing this request from guest speakers on webinars. "Where can I see my PowerPoint notes while presenting?" For most webinar technologies, the answer is "on the hardcopy you print out and keep on your desk." That is a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Netbriefings Targets ON24 With Familiar Language
Wow, this is weird. Netbriefings today (April 11) issued a press release announcing a campaign targeted at current users of ON24 webcasting technology and managed services. ON24 customers can get a free fully managed webcast from Netbriefings to compare the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Video, Video, Video
Wonder what the current Big Thing in web collaboration is? Let me call your attention to these recent press releases: New Global Survey by Wainhouse Research and Polycom Finds That the Use of Video Conferencing as an Enterprise Productivity Tool... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Thanks, Mary!
Commented Apr 8, 2013 on AnyMeeting Targets Other Vendors' Customers at The Webinar Blog
AnyMeeting Targets Other Vendors' Customers
It's so much fun to watch companies take direct aim at each other! At least it's fun when you are standing safely on the sidelines and are not directly involved. Today AnyMeeting put out a press release announcing "an aggressive campaign taking on WebEx and GoToMeeting in the small business mark...
AnyMeeting Targets Other Vendors' Customers
It's so much fun to watch companies take direct aim at each other! At least it's fun when you are standing safely on the sidelines and are not directly involved. Today AnyMeeting put out a press release announcing "an aggressive... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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How To Get The 'Right' Audience
Let me help you improve the success of your next public presentation. It doesn't matter whether you will be speaking to an audience with you in a room or to a remote audience via webinar or webcast. It doesn't matter... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Steve, you are looking for a feature called "breakout rooms." A few vendors have implemented this. I am on the road without access to my notes, but I know that Adobe Connect does this well. Other vendors, please feel free to add a reply if you have the capability as well.
Commented Mar 26, 2013 on Open Chat In Webinars: Best Practices at The Webinar Blog
Open Chat In Webinars: Best Practices
Most web conferencing products give hosts the option of displaying or hiding attendee chat messages for other attendees. In a small collaborative session, chat is usually left public, as an open forum to stimulate discussion and a sense of community. In larger webinars and webcasts that are open...
Webinar This Week For Asia/Pacific
Do you live in Hawaii? Malaysia? Singapore? Australia? New Zealand? Are you frustrated when you see announcements of webinars scheduled for the convenience of continental North American and European audiences? Good news! The antipodean gang at Citrix Australia have invited... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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TalkPoint Releases Webcasting Survey Results
I love the fact that some of the big players in the web conferencing / webcasting space are giving us real data on usage, trends, and preferences from their users. Today I thank TalkPoint for making available the results of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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omNovia Gets More Enhancements
The developers at omNovia have been on one of their development sprees lately. The webinar/webcast/web conference platform does not go through formal release cycles and version numbers. On any given day, you may log in to find some new functionality... Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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More good info, Jim. So it certainly looks like this was a partial outage rather than something that hit all users. I appreciate the update.
Commented Mar 11, 2013 on WebEx and GoToMeeting Die Simultaneously at The Webinar Blog
WebEx and GoToMeeting Die Simultaneously
Both Cisco and Citrix experienced catastrophic failures of their online hosted web meeting services on Friday, March 8. Cisco customers lost access to WebEx (I am trying to figure out whether it affected only a subset or all of the Event Center, Meeting Center, Training Center versions). Citrix ...
Thanks, Walter. I definitely need to track down more info! That helps.
Commented Mar 11, 2013 on WebEx and GoToMeeting Die Simultaneously at The Webinar Blog
WebEx and GoToMeeting Die Simultaneously
Both Cisco and Citrix experienced catastrophic failures of their online hosted web meeting services on Friday, March 8. Cisco customers lost access to WebEx (I am trying to figure out whether it affected only a subset or all of the Event Center, Meeting Center, Training Center versions). Citrix ...
WebEx and GoToMeeting Die Simultaneously
Posted Mar 10, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Onstream Announces DIY Webcasting
Onstream Media has offered high end enterprise and government webcasting for a long time now. I don’t write about their products much because they have always been sold as end-to-end service and technology bundles. Onstream prides itself on providing complete... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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Stacy, I am trying to send you test cases, but email is not going through. Please email me with the proper address to send to. Thank you.
Commented Mar 1, 2013 on Objects That Can Mess Up Your Webinar Slides at The Webinar Blog
Objects That Can Mess Up Your Webinar Slides
Webinar technology vendors use different methods to display PowerPoint slides to attendees. One strategy is screen sharing. Citrix GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar are probably the best known examples, along with just about every low-cost solution intended for collaborative web meetings. Another stra...
40 Tips For Webinar Success
AnyMeeting just sent out a newsletter including free download of an eBook: “40 Tips for Webinar Success.” At first I thought they were sending me a personalized email with 40 tips to help my business. Then I realized they weren’t... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at The Webinar Blog
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