Breeze Meeting

Macromedia's Breeze Meeting is among the premier entries in the net conferencing computer software arena. This short article is one in a set that describe the options that come with the major web conferencing computer software

products and services which are currently available.

Allow me to say first that the functionality and options that come with Breeze are way too plentiful to

be completely described here, and I'll cover only a few of the Breeze Meeting features to provide you with a sense of that which you can accomplish with the package.

Meeting Rooms

Very simple "meeting room", your virtual meeting place, is persistent, which really is a fancy method of saying that this content of one's meeting - notes, presentations, and chat contents are automatically saved for you personally. Meeting rooms might have a custom layout defined that's also automatically saved. Incidentally, Mac users, Breeze supports OS X 10. 2 and 10. 3.

Application and Desktop Sharing and Handheld remote control

Any web conferencing computer software worth the name includes the power for the presenter to talk about applications on his/her desktop with another participants in the meeting. One very powerful utilization of this technology is remote computer software installation. I described within an earlier in the day article in this series the procedure of receiving a credit card applicatoin computer software upgrade using conferencing computer software. The most recent release of Breeze includes improved desktop sharing which allows shared presentations to be considered in full-screen mode by the participants. Additionally, the presenter (the meeting controller)

has got the choice to synchronize all of the participant's screens. The handheld remote control facilities of the merchandise now support full screen mode also. If you're unfamiliar with it, handheld remote control actually let us one participant get a grip on the desktop of yet another - the very first time I watched the mouse pointer on my screen underneath the get a grip on of another person, it seemed a little eerie, but I quickly adjusted - its an extremely powerful facility.

Attendee Management

If you are holding an on line meeting of any sort, wouldn't you wish to have the ability to track who is/isn't there and also to know if they are connected correctly? Breeze offers the ability for the presenter to see who's in the meeting and their connection status. If the objective of your gathering is training, attendance is taken for you personally!

Audio Conference Call Get a grip on

One of the ways web conferencing computer software products and services supply the audio part of the meeting is via a telephone conference call. Breeze now incorporates the capability to get a grip on an external conference call from within the applying. You are able to dial out to meeting participants, get a grip on the mute/unmute function

(in case somebody gets a tad too verbal), even eject participants if necessary (the overly verbal guy! ). Additionally, the controls to record the meeting are the main interface.

Microsoft Outlook Integration

Breeze has become built-in with Microsoft Outlook. Anybody employed in an work place (and inundated with meetings) will appreciate the ease of this feature. You are able to schedule

Breeze meetings and invite attendees right in the familiar Outlook environment. Users may even join very simple meeting from their Outlook calendar.

Multi-point Video

The main one facet of a genuine meeting that web conferencing usually does not provide may be the visual presence of the participants. Breeze now features improved multi-point video - and therefore multiple users could be supported with video input from webcams. I suspect it's not going to be well before video input becomes a far more common facet of all web conferences.

Whiteboarding, participant polling, participant permissions, and moderated Q& A sessions are a few of the other Breeze features that can not be covered here.

The final very interesting bit about Breeze is that it runs under Flash, which will be already installed of all computers, meaning they are able to all access Breeze Meetings without installing any extra computer software.