Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Free Web Conferencing & More for Mac, Windows & Linux

By Rich Brooks on MaineToday.com in the Internet Marketing 101 blog

Adobe Selected for U.S. DoD Contract

DISA’s Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Program to use Acrobat Connect Professional

Citrix GoToMeeting Wins eLearning Guild Platinum Award

Recognized by Guild Professionals for Highest Customer Satisfaction Rating among Web Conferencing and Virtual Classroom Tools

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

High Quality at Low Prices Lead to Record Growth at Great America Networks Conferencing

Great America Networks Conferencing announces growth and expansion numbers. They continue to attract new clients due to their excellent quality at affordable prices. They also announce their new products that have launched recently and what is in the research and development phase.

EarthLink Expands Small Business Services through Citrix Online Collaboration Solutions

EarthLink Customers Can Now Cost-effectively Extend Business Reach with Online Demos, Meetings and Large Events

Chaotic Travel Season Spurs Cruise Line to Offer Innovative Creature Comfort: "Virtual Get-Togethers"

Cruise West Eases Strain for Traveling Guests and Extends into New Markets Worldwide with Citrix GoToWebinar

Monday, June 25, 2007

Interactive Whiteboards Enter the Web Conferencing Generation

Promethean and Elluminate announce strategic partnership to bring “Connected” learning to classrooms

Elluminate Enhances Leading eLearning and Web Collaboration Solution with Launch of Elluminate Live!® V8

New Features Increase Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning in Online and Blended Sessions for Groups of All Sizes

Friday, June 22, 2007

Web Conferencing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide

By Robin Good on Kolabora.com

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Citrix Would Be An Attractive Acquisition For SAP, Oracle

By Sramana Mitra on SeekingAlpha.com

First $1B Quarter for Worldwide Collaboration Services Market

Wainhouse Research's (WR) latest study "Q1 2007 Collaboration Service Provider (CSP) SpotCheck" indicates the worldwide collaboration services market achieved its first $1B quarter in Q1 2007.

iLinc Makes Significant Addition To Board Of Directors

New Board Member Brings Valuable Web Conferencing and Telecommunications Experience

Zoho Meeting Open to Public

Zoho Makes Free Web Conferencing Quick and Easy

Gartner Says Worldwide Web Conference and Team Collaboration Software Markets Will Reach $2.8 Billon in 2010

Due to the increasing need for companies to manage content at the enterprise level, the worldwide web conferencing and team collaboration software markets are expected to grow approximately 22 percent per year through 2010, from $1.3 billion in 2006 to $2.8 billion in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Web Conferencing Is Top Component in Teleworking Programs, According to Wainhouse Research WebMetrics Report

A Full 78% of Those With Teleworking Programs Identify Web Conferencing as the Top Component

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Sonic Foundry Highlights Enterprise Applications of Mediasite at InfoComm and EduComm 2007

Company is EduComm platinum sponsor and will provide event webcasting services

ONSTREAM MEDIA STRENGTHENS PARTNERSHIP WITH AUTONOMY TO PROVIDE BUSINESS-CRITICAL AUDIO, VIDEO & RICH MEDIA SERVICES TO FORTUNE 1000 CLIENTS

Onstream Media Extends Virage Implementation with IDOL to Deliver Faster and Better Digital Media Services

Montauk Financial Group Selects Cypress Communications for Hosted VoIP Solution

Financial Services Company Chooses C4 IP for Business Continuity and Productivity Enhancing Features

Audio Video Pc Web Meeting The Internet Has Been Crying Out For

Exploding demand for audio video pc web meeting desktop services is spilling over to the business customer support counters, where customers are provided interactive live customer service or product support without the need for long distance telephone calls and providing opportunities beyond email or other internet live text chat facilities.

Monday, June 18, 2007

iLinc Communications To Announce Fiscal 2007 Q4 And Year-End Results

iLinc Communications, Inc., a leading developer of Web conferencing software and audio conferencing solutions, will release its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter and year-end results on Thursday, June 28, 2007, before the market opens.

Premiere Global Services Enhances and Upgrades ReadyCast

ReadyCast Enables Simple, Affordable, International Audio and Web Collaboration

Tucson Commuters Can Avoid Traffic Hassles with Free Use of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting

Online Services Make Telework Fast, Easy and Secure

Friday, June 15, 2007

BrightCom to Present Telepresence and Web 2.0 Technology at Enterprise 2.0

BrightCom, a leading enterprise telepresence and web conferencing solution provider, will be pushing the boundaries of Web 2.0 Technology at Enterprise 2.0, The Collaborative Technologies Conference June 18-20 in Boston, Massachusetts. BrightCom will demonstrate its latest version of ClearView Session Manager 1.4.6 with enhanced 16 person multiway video conferencing solution with no multipoint control unit necessary. BrightCom will also be displaying its high end web conferencing solution Visual Collaboration System (VCS) as well as its telepresence suite solutions. ClearView Conferencing and VCS are fully integrated video, audio and web conferencing systems allowing enterprise business to move beyond out-dated email file sharing of today.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

MegaMeeting.com Video Conferencing Allows More Students to Access College Without Attending

Wellington College is using MegaMeeting.com’s browser based video and web conferencing software to dramatically change the way students access college and college courses.

iLinc And Conference Plus, Inc. Announce Significant Co-Distribution Agreement

Reciprocal Relationship Expands Capabilities and Offerings of Both Companies

Improve Your Online Presentation Skills With Free Educational Webinar

Register at http://meetandtrain.ilinc.com/public/wevent for June 28 online speaker training, brought to you by Meet And Train and Webinar Success

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Citrix GoToMeeting Helps Small Businesses Do More, Travel Less

Online Services are Changing the Way People Meet - and Compete

Linklaters U.K. Taps Accordent Technologies For Global Online Rich Media Training System

World's Fifth Largest Law Firm Uses Online Rich Media Creation & Management Solutions to Speed Knowledge Transfer Among Attorneys in 23 Countries

Corporate Client Demand For Webcasting Surges: Thomson Financial Crosses 100,000 Mark In Webcast Production

Video Webcasting Emerges as a Viable Corporate Communications Tool
Thomson Financial Unveils New Webcasting Operations Center in Boston

Monday, June 11, 2007

Vyew Syncs Live Web Conferencing and Asynchronous Collaboration for Creating, Managing, and Interacting with All Forms of Content

Vyew bridges asynchronous and synchronous workflows and also adds portability to finalized content for posting on blogs, social networks, and other online pages

Cisco Disappoints Customers with Aggressive WebEx Marketing

By Kris Tuttle on SeekingAlpha.com

The Green Options Interview: Denise Persson, Genesys Conferencing

I was interested in why and how a teleconferencing company is getting so involved in efficiency and fighting global warming. The public relations and marketing possibilities don’t seem as obvious as they would be for a retailer or for a brand more well-known by the general public.
By Maria Surma Manka on GreenOptions.com

Friday, June 8, 2007

Time for Lawyers to Collaborate in Real Time

By Brett Burney in Law Technology News

TalkPoint to Power the June 13th FDAAdvisoryCommittee.com Webcast of the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee Hearing on Zimulti

TalkPoint, leading provider of the Tools, Technology and Services for Interactive Internet Broadcasting and FDAAdvisoryCommittee.com, the leading webcast and DVD source for FDA Advisory Committee Meetings, today announced that TalkPoint will be powering the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting scheduled for June 13th.

Vyew Named Finalist in 'Webware 100' Awards by CNET Webware Editors and the Web 2.0 User Community

Vyew, which recently emerged out of Beta, today announced it was selected by the editors at CNET’s Webware as a finalist in the first "Webware 100" awards.

WebEx to expand business in China

from INTERFAX-CHINA

Management best practices key to video conferencing success

by James Murray in businessGreen blog

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

iLinc Now Available on Salesforce.com's Appexchange

New Integration Provides More Timely Access to Data Through Automation of Sales and Marketing Lifecycle

Sophisticated Reporting Comes to Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Users

WebAssist today announced the availability of Nutshell, a software service that delivers enhanced reporting for Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional.

RHUB Releases TurboMeeting 3.1 With Remote Support and Remote PC Access

RHUB Communications, Inc., provider of the advanced, host your own Web conferencing solution, TurboMeeting, announced the release of version 3.1 with special features for remote support and remote access to your PC.

Vyew: Free Live Web Conferencing

by Duncan Riley in TechCrunch

Microsoft Updates Live Meeting

Microsoft is raising the stakes in the Web conferencing space by broadening and deepening the capabilities of its Live Meeting Web conferencing service.
By Paula Musich on eWeek.com

Microsoft Debuts Major Release of Web Conferencing Service

2007 release of Microsoft Office Live Meeting supports 360-degree video, VoIP and rich media integration.

Microsoft Schools TechEd on Web Conferencing

Microsoft today introduced the next release of its Office Live Meeting 2007 Web conferencing software, a product the company hopes will compete with market leader WebEx.

By Stuart J. Johnston on internetnews.com

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

WiredRed Software Announces Support for High Definition Video Conferencing at No Additional Charge

e/pop customers enjoy HD conferencing without $250,000 telepresence price tag

Monday, June 4, 2007

ReadyTalk Announces Web Seminars for June

In the month of June, the ReadyTalk Web Seminar series will feature several excellent speakers on topics ranging from Ensuring Web Seminar Success to How to Create an Investment Grade Marketing Plan.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Internet Video Network Insight24 Launches Showcase Series Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes Offers Registered Users Opportunity to Win 42" Panasonic Plasma HDTV

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Employees call for an end to boring meetings

Survey suggests UK staff are increasingly keen on a web conferencing alternative to unnecessary face-to-face meetings
by James Murray in IT Week

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Onstream Media Corporation Set to Deploy Major Technology Upgrades to its VisualWebcaster Platform

Onstream Media Corporation, a leading online service provider of live and on-demand, digital media communications and applications, reported today that it has completed development of several enhancements to its VisualWebcaster™ platform that are designed to allow the company to maintain its technology lead in the webcasting marketplace.

Cisco finishes $3.2B WebEx acquisition

Cisco's tender offer has been finalized as the company seeks to enter the online collaboration services market with the acquisition
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service

Cisco Completes Acquisition of WebEx

Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced the completion of its acquisition of WebEx Communications, Inc.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Finally Real Business Level Conferencing Available in Second Life!

A new full service audio conferencing solution has arrived in Second Life. Great America Network Conferencing (GANC) unveiled its full service conference packages to companies or groups that want to hold large meetings in Second Life.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Understanding Laminitis Webinar Audience Deems it a Success

By Kimberly S. Brown in TheHorse.com

Artafact Teams With WebEx to Offer New Online Focus Group Software

Artafact LLC has partnered with web collaboration leader WebEx , to create an online market research solution that replicates the interactivity and insight of in-person focus groups without the cost and time delays.

iLINC POSITIONED IN VISIONARIES QUADRANT FOR WEB CONFERENCING

Web Conferencing to Be Available to 75% of Corporate Users by 2010

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

MegaMeeting.com Video Conferencing Helps Auto Finance Company Meet More Often & Travel Less

Before implementing MegaMeeting.com’s browser based video and web conferencing software, Automatic Auto Finance (AAF) would have to ask all of their employees to shut down two hours early or open two hours late so they could travel 90+ miles to meet.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

WebEx Experience Online Forum Saves Over 1 Million Pounds of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in First Week

New Online User Conference Format Eliminates Travel for Hundreds of Customers

Web Worker Payoff: Webinar Emcee

By Susan Heid in Web Worker Daily

Aperio Networks' Eventspan.com Proposes 'Web Event XML Schema' to Standardize Event Listings for Webcasts and Webinars

Eventspan.com, the forthcoming Web 2.0 search, syndication, and social networking website for online events such as webcasts and webinars, has released a draft of a proposed XML schema for the publishing of web event listings.

Onstream Media Corporation Fiscal Year 2007 Second Quarter Conference Call Recap

Onstream Media Corporation, a leading online service provider of live and on-demand digital media communications and applications, today provided a recap of the Company’s conference call held on May 21, 2007.

Growing Demand for Online Collaboration Fuelling Market Growth for the World’s Web Conferencing Markets

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c57529) has announced the addition of the Frost & Sullivan report: World Web Conferencing Markets to their offering.

PREMIERE GLOBAL SERVICES UPGRADES PGI NETSPOKE WEB CONFERENCING SOLUTION

GlobalMeet® Integration and Improved Self-Service Capabilities Give Small and Medium Businesses Feature-Rich Web Conferencing

Monday, May 21, 2007

Making it real

Teleconferencing is advancing with the improvement of video and sound, helping a $6 billion industry grow.
By Kimberly S. Johnson in the Denver Post

Arkadin Announces “Green to be Great” Eco-Friendly Event Series

New ArkadinAnywhere web conference system provides platform for global eco-talks

Interwise Receives 2006 Product of the Year Award

Interwise Connect Honored for Outstanding Innovation

ON24 Inc. Awarded Texas Multiple Award Schedule Contract

ON24's Webcasting Solutions Enable Texas State and Local Agencies to Hold Virtual Events

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Octopz grabs on to Web collaboration

Social network targets creative professionals by emphasizing visual effects
By Paul Krill in InfoWorld

Friday, May 18, 2007

Cisco Receives Foreign Regulatory Approvals Required to Acquire WebEx

Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that it has received the remaining foreign regulatory approvals required under the merger agreement for it to consummate the tender offer for all outstanding shares of WebEx Communications, Inc.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Enhance Your Intranet with Sametime 7.5.1

By John Roling on Intranet Journal

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Microsoft Testing Screen Sharing Tool

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

Inter-Tel brings next generation IP communications to Interop

Inter-Tel 7000, Unified Communicator v4.0 Head Up Power-packed Lineup

Video production pros at Backstar Creative Media partner with Netbriefings for webcasting technology

Production partners see new Proclaim webcasting tool as a competitive advantage

Accordent Engage™ Puts the Power of Enhanced Audio Webcasts and Webconferences in the Hands of Enterprise Users

Behind-The-Firewall Solution Dramatically Reduces Outsourced Conferencing Fees While Providing Enterprise-class Control and Security

Institute of Management Consultants USA Uses Citrix GoToMeeting to Help Reach Members - and Help Members Reach Clients

Consultants Discover the Value of Online Meeting Solutions

Monday, May 14, 2007

Sonic Foundry CEO to Explore Impact of Executive Webcasting During Chief Executive Magazine Webinar

Buinevicius to share insights on how webcasting can dramatically improve top level communications throughout an organization

Strategic Profits' Steady Stream of Leads from ON24 Inc.'s Live Video Webcasting

ON24 Inc. Webcasting Solutions Contributes to Increased Leads and Revenues

Interwise Connect Selected by ZipRealty as its Corporate Standard for Converged Voice, Web and Video Conferencing

Innovative Technology Supports Internet-Savvy Realty Company’s Accelerated Market Expansion

Magic Quadrant States that More Organizations are Providing Web Conferencing to All Employees, Alongside IM and eMail

Interwise Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Web Conferencing Magic Quadrant 2007

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Monash streams campus life to remote students

Monash University has deployed a Web conferencing tool to bolster its Masters of School Leadership program for off-campus students.By Darren Pauli in InfoWorld Netherlands

Onstream Awarded Contracts of Approximately $500,000 by State California for Streaming Services

Onstream Media Corporation, a leading online service provider of live and on-demand, digital media communications and applications, announced today that as a result of its recent four year California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS) contract, it has been awarded contracts by the State’s Resources Agency and the State's Board of Equalization to provide turnkey media creation, encoding, webcasting and archiving services for each of those agencies.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

iLINC TO PRESENT AT RENN INVESTOR CONFERENCE

iLinc Communications, Inc., a leading provider of Web conferencing software and conferencing solutions, announced today that it will present at the RENN Investor Conference.

Audio Conferencing Software promotes SMB collaboration.

Avaya Announces Meeting Exchange Express - a Conferencing and Collaboration Solution for Small and Midsize Companies

CommuniClique™ Announces Web Conferencing Feature

New Component Allows Attendees to Join Easily with No Plug-Ins or Downloads Necessary

Enunciate Conferencing Wins Another Prestigious Award

Enunciate's leader, Frank Cianciulli was crowned one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 during the 12th annual Awards Event organized by executive search firm, The Caldwell Partners International.

Rich Media Network Insight24 Showcases Axios Partners "The Real Cost of Backup Failures to the Enterprise" Webcast

Webcast Discusses Results From Survey of 250 Data Center Managers

Elluminate, Inc. Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant in Industry Report on Web Conferencing

Gartner Evaluates Elluminate for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

TalkPoint to Power the May 10th FDAAdvisoryCommittee.com Webcast of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Hearing on Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit

TalkPoint, the leading provider of audio and video-based Webcast services, and FDAAdvisoryCommittee.com, the leading webcast and DVD source for FDA Advisory Committee Meetings, today announced that TalkPoint will be powering the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting scheduled for May 10th.

ADxIT Announces Strategic Partnership with KZO Networks to Market New Webcasting Tool

ADxIT, (pronounced add-exit), an online marketing, learning, and integration company has announced a strategic partnership with Virginia based KZO Networks.

White Papers vs Webcasts: What Prospects Prefer - New Data

If you use white papers and newsletter articles to entice and educate prospects, we have new data that will surprise you about what they truly want.

From Marketing Sherpa

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Review: Not the Same-Old Sametime

By Charlie Schluting on Instant Messaging Planet.com

Monday, May 7, 2007

Slow adoption

Small businesses are taking it slow when it comes to deploying technologies such as VoIP and video conferencing.By Mohd Shariff in Express Computer (India)

Sunday, May 6, 2007

THE MAZE MELTDOWN

Crash may virtually change commuting
Traffic hassles could put people on road to high-tech meetings
by Ellen Lee in the San Francisco Chronicle

Thursday, May 3, 2007

iLinc Announces Preliminary Unaudited Fiscal Year 2007 and Fourth Quarter Results

iLinc Communications, Inc., a leading developer of Web conferencing software and audio conferencing solutions, today announced preliminary and unaudited results for its fiscal year and fourth quarter ending March 31, 2007.

Bay Area Highway Collapse Demonstrates Need for Teleworking Preparedness

Citrix GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting Help Companies’ Employees Work from Anywhere

Collaboration: Communication on steroids

With simple communication difficult enough to achieve within many organisations, making the move to 'collaboration' can seem a step too far. But emerging deployment and adoption strategies may give the latest collaboration technologies a fighting chance. Angela Eager reports.From Computer Business Review Online

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Sonic Foundry Hosts First Annual Mediasite User Conference in Response to Growing Demand for Web Communications

Users lead program on innovative applications and best practices for Mediasite

VariView Technology, LLC to Acquire Webcast Services Group From Reflect Systems, Inc.

Dallas, Texas, based firm to launch new Webcast services offering using ReflectWeb(TM) live event and VOD distribution platform

Web conferencing: How will it affect the relationship between Cisco and Microsoft

by Clive Longbottom, service director at analyst firm Quocirca on ComputerWeekly.com

European Collaboration Services Market Forecast to Hit $1 Billion in 5 Years

New Study From Wainhouse Research Details 12 Local European Markets