Working Virtually and Using Online Collaboration Tools to Learn, Teach, and Discuss: A quick product review of MS Live Meeting

chillibreeze writer — Andal Jaganathan & Joanna Budelman

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Chillibreeze has been operating as a virtual company since 2004. Our systems started out with basic email and in the early days we used Jot Spot for our company wiki and collaborative communication tool. Jotspot was purchased by Google and so we switched to using Google docs and Basecamp.

One of the recent online applications we have subscribed to is Microsoft Live Meeting. I recently asked one of our managers, Andal Jaganathan, how she liked using the application. Here is her quick review of the Microsoft Live Meeting product.

Product Review:

I used MS Live Meeting for recording a training session conducted by a client. It worked and now I have easy to use audio files of the training session. We were just three people in the meeting. We need to test the experience with a larger group.

Pros:

• It supports recording, thus proving very useful for training sessions. Non-attendees can view a recording of the session.
• We had no issues with the audio features.
• File sharing and desktop sharing are easy to use.

Cons:

• It requires downloads of software from MS. This could prove a problem with computers that do not use a licensed OS.
• I was not able to view a recording that was stored on the Live meeting server. Some incompatibility with my Internet Explorer. After several tries I gave up an opted to record the session on my comp and I got easy to use Windows Media Player files.

I had a trial run with other Chillibreeze staff before the meet with the client. So was able to sort try out features such as view desktop, file sharing, recording, etc. So the only glitches I faced was some bug in my IE which blocked playback of the session.

Overall, I’d say it is an easy-to-use platform. Wins hands down over WebEx, a platform we used earlier for the same meet and faced myriad issues with.

Other resources about working virtually:

• The Chillibreeze Story: How we started a virtual company in India
• Get writing career tips for the freelancer
• Virtual Offices of the Future
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—About our writer: Joanna Budelman is co-founder and director of Chillibreeze, and Andal Jaganathan is a writer and also the Manager of the Project Management Division of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt. Ltd. INDIA

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