live meeting user group webcast on roundtable and live meeting 2007

Event organising with Live Meeting 2007 and Round Table

Presented by Chris Dalby

Live Meeting User Group

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About LMUG

• The Live Meeting User Group is a collaboration forum primarily aimed for Live Meeting users, resellers, developers, and partners. 

• The aim of the User Group is an occasional social evening in London or Reading, combined with an online outlet for collaboration and support with regular Live Meeting webcasts.

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About Chris Dalby

• Chris Dalby is founder and Director of Yellow Park, a Microsoft Certified Partner located in Kent, UK. 

• Yellow Park specialises in network infrastructure, support, unified communications, online integration and training. An early adopter and reseller of Live Meeting 2005, Yellow Park serves a diverse range of clients of all sizes and also delivers local government training.

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OrientationDuring the Webcast• How do I give feedback to a presenter?

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OrientationQ&A and Raise Your Hand

Use the Q&A menu to ask questions. Raise your hand and the Presenter will initiate a 1:1 chat with you.

Orientation Full Screen Mode

To view content in Full-screen mode, press F5 or click full screen from the bottom right.

To return to normal view, press F5 or escape.

Orientation Audio

To join the webcast audio, click the Join Audio menu

Orientation Audio

If you loose the audio during the webcast, click to reconnect

Orientation Download Handouts

Orientation Webcast Objectives• What’s new in 2007?

• Different types of meetings and events

• Viewing and creating events

• Registration pages and surveys

• Using content to engage participants

• An introduction to Round Table

Poll 1What experience do you have of Office Live Meeting?

I use OLM 2007 regularlyI have used OLM 2007 once or twice beforeI am an experienced Live Meeting 2005 presenterI have only attended as a participantI have never used Live Meeting before

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What’s new in 2007?Describe key improvements in OLM 2007

• Virtual break-out rooms

• Enhanced colour palette and annotation tools

• Fully integrated event registration

• VOIP in both directions

• Handouts

• Webcam integration

• New recording options

• Improved web-based meeting client

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What’s new in 2007? The Sales Pitch• Streamlined Meeting Client to highlight meeting content

• Improved interactive features and Annotation Tools

• Enhanced Audio Options, including bridging of Computer and Telephone Conferencing

• Enhanced Media tools, including video playback and Webcam & Round Table video

• New High Fidelity Recording format

• Updated Meet Now experience

• Enhanced Conferencing Add-in for Outlook

• Virtual Breakout Rooms for eLearning and training

• Integrated Live Meeting Events Registration

• Pre-Meeting or In-Meeting File Transfer via Downloadable Handouts

• Improved Web-Based Meeting Client

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What’s new in 2007? What’s New for Attendees?• Enhanced User Experience

• Much improved Web Access Client

• New Personal Recordings

• Improved High Fidelity Recording Format

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What’s New for Attendees?Enhanced User Experience

• OLM client automatically upgrades when joining a meeting

• Help in the meeting

• Toolbars according to permissions

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What’s New for Attendees?Much Improved Web Access Client

• The new Web Access Client more closely matches the software experience

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What’s New for Attendees?New Personal Recordings

• When enabled by the presenter, meeting participants can record meetings locally

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What’s New for Attendees?Improved High Fidelity Recording Format• The new High Fidelity Recording Format

contains audio, video and presentation content.

• Select whatyou wish toview

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What’s New for Presenters?

• New Meeting Content

• Voice and Video

• eLearning Tools

• Collaborate with Interactive Tools

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What’s New for Presenters?New Meeting Content

• Upload and playback a variety of resources during meetings, including video files.

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What’s New for Presenters?Voice and Video

• New voice and audio options means you have a choice of Computer audio (VOIP), telephone conferencing audio, or both.

• Presenter webcam or Microsoft Office Round Table shows current speaker.

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What’s New for Presenters?Round Table

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What’s New for Presenters?Round Table

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What’s New for Presenters? eLearning Tools

• Breakout rooms allow smaller group activities

• Automatically assign people to rooms or drg and drop

• No computer to computer audio with breakout rooms

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What’s New for Presenters? Collaborate with Interactive Tools

• New annotation tools give an advance colour palette.

• Hover over comments to see who wrote the annotations

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What’s New for Presenters? Collaborate with Interactive Tools

• Shared notes

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What’s New for Presenters? Collaborate with Interactive Tools

• Upload handouts for meeting participants to download during the meeting.

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What’s New for Presenters? Meet Now from the start menu

• Meet Now using the Start Menu

• Currently cannot Meet Now using the add-in for Outlook

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Events and Registration Creating Events

• The Events and Registration service is now fully integrated with Live Meeting

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Events and RegistrationDemonstration

DEMONSTRATION• Viewing and creating events

• Registration pages and surveys

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Events and RegistrationEngaging the Audience

Live Meeting Video on Events

An introduction to Round Table Presented by Mark Deakin, Microsoft UK

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http://blogs.technet.com/markdea/default.aspx

Poll 2

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What topic would you like in the next webcast?

Using virtual breakout roomsUsing Audio and recording meetingsLive Meeting for collaborative eventsAdvanced presenter techniquesAdministrator trainingAPI for developers

Our Next Webcast

• Tune into the next LMUG webcast on 26th February 2008, 4pm GMT.

• Topic to be decided during this webcast

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Photo by Robert Brook

Thanks for the photo Robert ;)

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Get Involved

• We are actively encouraging the community to get involved in LMUG:

• Blogging on http://livemeetinguser.org

• Collaborate in the forums

• Content ideas to drive direction

• Host a webcast

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More Information

• LMUG Website: http://livemeetinguser.org

• Chris Dalby: Blog http://yellowpark.net/cdalby/• Email: dalbyc@gmail.com

• Unified Communications User Group• http://mucuguk.org/

• Instructor Led Training:• http://microsoft.com/livemeetingILtraining

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