6 posts tagged “presentations”
Robyn Greenspan, ExecuNet's Editor-in-Chief, recently wrote about telecommuting:
If you're already checking email from a mobile device, developing presentations on the weekends, and taking international calls during the night, why not take your remote accessibility one step further and regularly work from home? With technology advancing at the same pace that gas prices are increasing and environmental concerns are mounting, a couple of days per week at the home office can save time, money and the planet.
Back in 2006, when $10 bought roughly four gallons of regular gasoline, companies were already adjusting their benefits to accommodate for rising fuel prices. According to research conducted by WorldatWork through The Dieringer Research Group, 12.4 million Americans were allowed by employers to work from home at least one day per month — up from 9.9 million in 2005 — and a 2007 study from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) revealed that more than half of surveyed employers offered some form of telecommuting option. If employees worked from home just one-and-a half days per week, research from the University of Maryland found a cost savings of $4.5 billion annually (based on gas at $3.33 per gallon).
Web 2.0 services like Skype and Ring Central for voice communications, Yugma for web conferencing, and SiteSpeed, Eyejot, and Ekko.TV for video make it easy to work virtually.
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.).
We just posted the schedule for Stage 2. Check it out at https://www.yugma.com/stage2/.
If you are at the Web 2.0 Expo, stop by booth #322 during the time posted. You can also attend virtually by clicking on “Join a Session” and using the Session ID noted for the presentation.
It's going to be great... "See you there!"
Yugma is reaching out to Linux community and Microsoft for May 1 “Show Us The Code” deadline
[Note inserted on June 3: View youtube video to see what happened at the 5/1/2007 meeting.]
Yesterday, I issued an invitation to both the Show Us The Code and Microsoft communities regarding a virtual “sit down” for the May 1, 2007 deadline. Yugma’s web collaboration software would enable key players from both groups to join a live session and present their sides.
As many of you know, in a letter to Steven Ballmer, the Linux community has requested that individuals “Publicly pledge your support for Microsoft showing the public the code within Linux that violates their intellectual property by May 1st, 2007. “ Through an open invitation to key players and observers, we intend to provide a forum for each side to address the other.
We’ve been watching this movement and wondering what would materialize on May 1 to complete this debate. Since people all over the world may want to participate, we wanted to offer a solution that would work regardless of geographic location and platform. We’re hoping that we can be one of the catalysts to end this question of code ownership.
The full text of the letter follows:
OPEN LETTER TO: Linux Community & Microsoft
My name is Karel Lukas, and I'm the COO at a web collaboration company called Yugma. I've been following the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft’s position closely, and understand how important this issue is for the future vitality of the Open Source and Linux communities.
As the May 1st deadline approaches, we at Yugma have been wondering what the ultimate conclusion of this debate will be. Will it quietly fizzle out? Will Microsoft continue to press their case and ignore the challenge? As we are approaching the May 1st deadline, we propose that we all collectively drive this debate to a proper conclusion.
Yugma is about to launch our Linux version, which will make our collaboration service interoperable between Linux, Mac, and PC. We think that makes us the perfect platform for hosting a virtual "sit-down" between the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft on the day of the deadline.
For this event, we are offering to host a live debate between the Show Us The Code group and Microsoft on May 1st. Microsoft can present the alleged offending code live. Leaders from the Linux community can respond. Yugma will record the session and make it available to both parties afterwards for their own distribution. The date, time, and meeting information follows:
Date/Time: May 1, 2007 at 12:00 Noon Pacific Time
Place: www.yugma.com (click Join Session button)
Teleconference Bridge: +1-218-486-3889
Yugma Session ID: 109-433-046
We think Yugma would be a great venue for educating more people (and the Tech press) about the Show Us The Code movement as well as Microsoft’s position. We are in the process of contacting key contacts within both organizations to identify the key participants for the event. Likewise, key contacts from the Linux community and from Microsoft can contact us at showusthecode@yugma.com . We will be exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco April 16-18. If any of you will be there, please stop by the Yugma booth and we can discuss in person (booth #322).
