Help a Nerd Out! Ellen wrote to ask… “I’m looking for advice on most reliable web-based telephone services. I live in the foothills of a mountain in Phoenix and find that my cell phone calls get dropped often, despite installing a signal booster. My landline has a lot of interference, (which the phone company can’t seem to fix) and is …
Nerds in the News: 14 Great Low-Cost Tech Tools for Meeting Planners
Wow! We were covered in PCMA’s top stories update! Check out the August article that appeared in Smart Meetings. This nerd was happy to share some tools that are perfect for the meeting industry.
Whiteboards: Vyew and Twiddla
Let’s say you’re designing a new website with a committee, and you guys need to work together to find the right look. Twiddla is the perfect tool. Without registering or downloading anything, you can push a button, share a link and immediately be on the same page with as many people as you want. You can mark up a document …
Ustream: Live streaming service with extensive audience
For my modest live-streaming video needs, Google+ Hangouts more than suffices, but if you’d like to share your live events with others, you have several options, one of those being Ustream. Ustream is probably the biggest live streaming service, and the site is full with magazine-style live broadcasts with professional effects and lots of viewership. For those of us with …
Google+ Hangouts: Videoconferencing and live broadcast tool
Google+ Hangouts may change the way you conduct your meetings. Start your meeting in a matter of minutes by inviting colleagues to connect via their Google+ accounts (any Gmail account works). Each participant (up to 10) shows up in a video line below the main screen; and when people speak, they pop up to the main screen. In addition, you …
AnyMeeting: Screensharing and webinar tool
If you find you need more than just a call or even a video chat for your meeting, you can find many tools that let you share screens and work together online with a few people or many. One of my favorites is AnyMeeting, which lets you share your screen with up to 200 people for free, with session recordings, …
Speek: A cool way to teleconference
Whuda thunk that technology startups would seek to make teleconferencing more fun? The new options for meeting people via phone are very cool indeed. Instead of the traditional phone number and PIN code, the new systems connect with the web, smart devices and your computer with just a click of a button rather than a series of pound signs …
Meeting Scheduling Tools: ScheduleOnce, Doodle, WhenIsGood
Let’s do some math … You need to schedule a meeting with five attendees. You send out one email to ask, “When can we meet?” Each attendee sends you back a reply (x5), then you reply back (x5), then you send to the entire group (x1), then each attendee writes back twice (x5x2)…. When you add it all up, that’s …
Minutes:io: Easy online meeting notes
Just because you have a great way to conduct a meeting doesn’t mean your meeting is going to be productive. Ever have to transcribe handwritten notes from a meeting then spend half an hour sending them out to everyone? What a pain. Before meetings, you can use Minutes.io to prepare agendas and enter attendees. During the meetings, just keep the sites …
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