17 posts tagged “collaboration”
On a scale of evaluated features ranging from 1 to 10, Yugma 3.0 Professional achieved a score of 9.0, barely behind the 9.1 received by WebEx MeetMeNow 2.1 and the 9.5 awarded to Citrix GoToMeeting 4.0, according to www.webconferencing-test.com reviews of online- collaboration products.
Now in its eighth year, the Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit has become the premiere industry insider event for the conferencing and collaboration community.
The 2008 event will feature:
- Wainhouse Research analysts speaking on trends and technologies affecting conferencing and unified communications, including audio, video, IM, and social networks.
- MIT Media Lab's Professor Andrew Lippman keynoting on viral communications and digital life
- Enterprise customers speaking on their experiences with new solutions, including telepresence and video.
- Experts in enterprise training and education discussing applications and opportunities for rich media solutions.
- A half-day showcase featuring ~18 technology demos. Here is the agenda.
Click here if you want to see some of last year's presentations (June 5-7, 2007 in SFO).
UPDATE (7/30/2008): Highlights of the event have been posted at NetBriefings blog site.
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At Web 2.0 Expo this week? Stop by booth #640 and get a demo of the new Yugma (Version 3). It's better than ever. Persistent, always one, super easy to use. It's way more than just simple desktop sharing. As described in their YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe9qU3H3LJk), it defines a new and easier way to get things done over the web -- call it "fluid collaboration."
It's really like two products in one. On one hand you can use it to present to people anywhere anytime without and need for a download. On the other hand, if you want to collaboration fully, as if everyone was working together around the same PC, then you download the java app. Runs on WIndows, Mac and Linux.
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Yugma - LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS - now twice daily To register, click here: http://tinyurl.com/2lr8bl Yugma
is now hosting LIVE demos daily -- Mondays through Fridays. These live
demos are great for new and existing Yugma users. Yugma is dead-simple
easy-to-use for team collaboration, hosting web conferences, webinars,
and elearning applications. Nevertheless, a lot of people like to "see
before they use." The live daily demos are a great way to see how Yugma
works, and is also a great place to learn how to get the most out of Yugma. Best part if Yugma's basic service is free forever, and works great on both Mac and Windows!!! To attend any of the live demo's you have to register at http://tinyurl.com/2lr8bl . |
Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) October 3, 2007 -- ClassroomRevolution.com, LLC and Yugma, Inc. (www.yugma.com) are pleased to announce the creation of a Joint Cooperation Agreement created to promote robust, reliable and inexpensive online learning and collaboration tools.
As a Moodle Partner, ClassroomRevolution.com has been authorized to provide Moodle services for the entire U.S. Market for the past four years. Using their experience and skills, the staff of ClassroomRevolution.com offer clients a variety of services, including: fully managed Moodle hosting, comprehensive Moodle training, Moodle development, and Moodle customization. Moodle (www.moodle.org) has long been recognized as a leader in the field of online learning management system (LMS) software. Moodle is an open-source project which has spread throughout the Internet, with over 30,000 registered sites using Moodle¹ to deliver online courseware as of September 2007. The architecture of Moodle is also built using open-source software technologies including PHP and MySQL.
Yugma is a free web conferencing and online collaboration service that is also built using PHP and MySQL open-source technologies. The philosophy of open-source is also evident by the commitment of Yugma to offer a collaboration service that enables users to host sessions and invite up to 10 participants free of charge. Premium versions of Yugma are also available which allows for up to 500 participants per session. Yugma Premium Services also extends a rich feature set including: the ability to share mouse and keyboard controls with other attendees, scheduling of sessions, session recording and webcast, whiteboard tools, built-in file sharing feature, and more.
Together, Yugma and ClassroomRevolution.com combine to offer a dynamic and compelling alternative to products that cost far more. The Joint Cooperation Agreement seeks to promote a complete solution for online course delivery, including live interactive collaboration. "Yugma provided an easily accessible download that afforded our Moodle training participants an opportunity to bridge the barriers of time and distance." said John Westbrook, Course Share Network Coordinator at the Alabama Independent School Association."Yugma is very user friendly with the needed flexibility to ensure successful online conferencing."
¹ Moodle.org. "Moodle: Moodle Statistics." http://moodle.org/stats 2007.
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Media Contacts:
Jonah Cagley
Yugma, Inc.
jonah[at]yugma.com
www.yugma.com
Thomas Caswell
ClassroomRevolution.com, LLC
tcaswell[at]classroomrevolution.com
www.classroomrevolution.com
Yugma is an easy web conferencing service that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux that is available free forever. The company makes it's money from users who upgrade to their premium services. They just recently released a new premium service called Premium 500. With Premium 500, users can easily host unlimited virtual meetings and webinar / seminar presentations with up to 500 attendees on each session. This new larger service is ideal for large associations, non-profit organizations, e-learning organizations, businesses, religious organizations, web conferencing software reviews, and online communities. The service can also be used in smaller group situations or to Yugma one to one to enable instant and spontaneous collaborations throughout the day, and to collaborate in any application.
The new service is very easy to use and works seamlessly across Windows (XP and Vista), Mac and Linux systems. Priced at $89.95 a month, it provides full access to all of the features found in the other Yugma Premium services, including free teleconferencing, whiteboard, annotations, private and public chat, multiple presenters, mouse and keyboard sharing, scheduling, technical support, and the most recently released features "Recording and Broadcast" and "Shared File Space."
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One of Yugma 's best kept secrets is the Shared File Space feature. It's a simple yet powerful cross platform utility that lets you easily share files with your team or clients. Sure, you can email files around. But how often have you run into email systems that refuse to accept large files like graphic heavy presentations and videos. The Shared File Space feature gets around this issue. Once you use it for a short while, you realize that it is just like having a shared drive, on the web, at no extra charge. The nice thing about it is that you get 100MB of storage even with the Premium 10 account. That's on top of the 200MB of storage space you get for storing recorded sessions online at Yugma.
Well, we're always trying to make things easier and more useful. So we just recently revamped this feature with a more intuitive look/feel and function. To access the feature, just click the Shared File Space button on the Yugma control panel. The Shared File Space feature allows you to set up different groups with different individuals in each group. For example, you might have different projects. Or you might want to have an internal documents space for your team, and a different document space for your clients to access. To copy files back and forth from the Shared Files Space just select the file(s) and then click the right or left arrow buttons. Premium users can access their Shared Files Spaces at any time. Yugma Free users can only access Shared Files Spaces when they are in a session a Premium user. You can manage the creation of groups and group members from the Action option at the top of the Yugma Control Panel. You can even check the history of who modified the files, and when they were modified -- alla version control. Give it a try. Let us know what you think. *** Here is a demo of the enhanced Shared File Space feature. By the way, the demo was created by using Yugma's simple Recording Feature . It allows you to record what you are doing, upload it to the Yugma website, and then broadcast it to others . Check it out.
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A couple of weeks ago, Yugma released its enhanced recording and broadcast feature. In short, the new premium feature lets you
- Record what ever you are doing on your computer
- Save your recordings on your computer
- Upload your recordings to Yugma so you can broadcast them to the world
The cool thing is that you can record anything you do on your computer, using any application! On Windows, Mac, and Linux! Yes, you very own easy desktop recorder! Think user created content...
Here is a sample recording. It highlights how you can use the new Shared File Space feature in Yugma.
Think of the possibilities: Elearning, software demo's and how-to's,
recorded whiteboard or annotation sessions, self paced presentations. And if that's not enough, this is just the beginning of a really cool
set of new features we are working on and beta testing this summer and
fall before releasing. We're even working on Yugma's beauty as well as
its brains. We'll spiff up the look and controls to make it look
cooler (e.g., distinctive new control panel, youtube -like media player controls, blinking recording button, export utilities, etc.).
I’m in love! The opportunities to grow your business are mind-boggling.
The other day, one client who's down in Kennebunk, Maine, saved 90 minutes of driving time, plus gas and the cost of parking in the Old Port. His investment: 2 minutes in downloading the software. For the small business owner or entrepreneur, you have to give Yugma a look in this "The World is Flat" world we live in. Whether you use their teleconferencing service, call a client direct, or set up a Skype conference to lay on top of a Yugma session, the opportunities to grow your business are mind-boggling.
- Rich Brooks, Flyte - http://tinyurl.com/2ffk4z
This extremely useful app takes desktop sharing and conferencing to the next level.
I actually found this to be one of, if not the most useful apps I've 'played' with to date. I can open it up, tell a friend, or a co-worker to hop on, and we can have a conference. The thing that I really like about this app is that it is all live, fast, and quick. Instead of having to upload or email a file to the other people, I can just pull it up on my own desktop and show it to them.
-Jake Dahn, Center Networks - http://tinyurl.com/28jmqt
Champagne anyone?
Have you ever hastily slapped together a PowerPoint demonstration and felt like you needed some good solid feedback on your spur-of-the-moment masterpiece before you head off to show to a client or whomever might be the informee to your slideshow? Now, what if you were remote, and didn’t have a confidant nearby to say yea or nay? Well, it just so happens that a few enterprising folks behind the conferencing utility known as Yugma thought of very similar potential dilemmas, apparently, because what they’re offering is a solution that rids you and your team or circle of worry. For free. Champagne anyone?
-Paul Glazowski, Profy - http://tinyurl.com/3d7jck
Yugma is one big killer web app—Give it a try!
-TechBuzz - http://tinyurl.com/2epuw3
Live Collaboration Nirvana = Skype + Yugma
Yugma is our latest find, and it is really cool. We are using the free version which is a java-based program that enables screencasting. I can initiate a webconference through Yugma, and our developers can all see my screen as I browse. It also includes markup tools so I can highlight the page so show exactly what I am talking about. Control of the screencast can be passed to any member on the conference.
-Chris Schultz, Voodoo Ventures - http://tinyurl.com/26nmmv
Yugma is brilliantly clear.
Yugma's strapline says it all: free web conferencing, forever, anytime, anywhere, Windows and Mac. It's a beautiful web-based tool for video conferencing, the kind of thing that doesn't need an install from your school IT Technician. It took about a minute to open up, register and get going. Brilliantly clear, with the option to share your desktop (so you can draw, write, illustrate) and a nice set of annotation tools to 'point' out what you're talking about.
-Ewan McIntosh, Edublogs - http://tinyurl.com/yslvn2
Weird name, but Yugma ROCKS for web conferencing!
Easy to use, free, and the product performance is great. Uninstall Yugma?
Yu gotta be kidding.
-The Business Web - http://tinyurl.com/2afmur
I was very, very impressed with Yugma.
I don’t showcase a lot of web applications, but this one is different. Web conferencing is necessary for a lot of businesses. From sales, to web design, and more - any job where you work with a team over a long distance needs web conferencing these days. Mac support in this area is a bit limited, and most services cost a monthly fee, or per session fee…but Yugma is different. All in all, I was very, very impressed with Yugma. If you need to do any web conferencing, either with your clients, or with your co-workers, this is a great free web based solution.
-Michael, Apple Gazette - http://tinyurl.com/ysx2hq
Yugma is the trifecta of easy and effective online collaboration.
I love Yugma. It is extremely painless to setup, use, and it is free to do it. Yugma is a web-conferencing tool that has excellent annotation tools, easy controls, and a simple sign-up process. It took me little more than ten minutes from sign-up to knowing how to use Yugma's tools and launching my first web conference without the trouble that WebEx usually gives me. This is the perfect tool for anyone who is teaching a class, discussing a group project, or even collaborating on a business deal. I can't tell you the many times in the last few months that I wished I had a service like this to illustrate a point visually instead of over the phone.
-Ryan Carter, Download Squad - http://tinyurl.com/24oy74
I can’t stop gushing about Yugma.
I can’t stop gushing about Yugma. It’s finally broken the barrier for inexpensive, interactive screen sharing between Macs and PCs. It’s fast, it works, it’s cheap and seems to have all the core features of the big guys like Webex and GoToMeeting. It amazes me that it took so long for someone to develop a product like this. Nobody has made it this easy to share between platforms.
-HalfDawn - http://tinyurl.com/yux29w
Essential for a total collaborative working environment.
With only a handful of other web conferencing applications currently available, Yugma's free service offers just about the same functionality as with the other paid subscription based web conferencing products. If you're a newcomer to the world of web conferencing, or if you're looking an alternative to your existing application, Yugma is hard to pass on.
-Pear Logic - http://tinyurl.com/2hpow6
By far the best we’ve ever used.
We have been utilizing virtual meeting software for years to meet online with our designers and programmers in Argentina, France and India. Web based programs like GotoMeeting served our needs well for PC based meetings, but once we transfered some of our staff over to Apples we were no longer able to utilize 90% of the virtual meeting services available. Enter Yugma, a really fast and affordable virtual meeting service that is by far the best we’ve ever used, plus it’s cross platform compatible.
-Azin Mehrnoosh, HiDef Web Solutions - http://tinyurl.com/2ff5do
The price and features are fantastic. You can’t beat Free!
Yugma is a new collaboration tool that lets users share a common online visual workspace and their desktops. It is impressive. Yugma offers free web conferencing sessions for up to 10 attendees (free version) to collaborate and share ideas online. It is a cinch to start a session and we use it often for sales and training support at Evolving Solutions and YourTeam Online.
-Chris Nadeau, The Perfect Balance - http://tinyurl.com/2gmb5q
Wow!
Free web conferencing tool. There are premium subscriptions available, but this puppy allows you to share your screen, audio conference, include a whiteboard, have chat, and all without ads. It also lets you create a widget that you can add to a website to let users web conference with you in one-click. Wow! Can we say "another virtual reference competitor" y'all?
-Librarian in Black - http://tinyurl.com/2d8775
The easiest conferencing setup on the internet.
If anyone is looking for a cross-platform web conferencing tool this is your answer. This tool will work with PCs and Macs as well as with any web browser. It’s JAVA based and is the easiest conferencing setup I have run across on the internet. I’ve looked at them all from Adobe Connect to WebEx to Microsoft LiveMeeting and none of those products have the cross-platform ease of use as Yugma. And the kicker is that it’s FREE to use!!
-Scottie Scheldberg, Scottie’s Blog - http://tinyurl.com/2heqtz
