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Tech Smart or Dumb Founded?

October 2, 2007

All of the technology created for events - registration, floor mapping, lead retrieval devices – is supposed to reduce the burden and increase our intelligence, but how often does it seem to just amplify our feelings of inadequacy? 

 

I recently participated in a training session for a Webinar tool designed to facilitate my presentation on Web 2.0 tools. I was amazed to learn of the limitations of the platform: no video, no links and no animation. This tool was more restrictive than PowerPoint slide features available ten years ago. With some constructive criticism and an open-ended question on how to improve the presentation, the vendor was able to migrate to a more productive solution.

 

Maybe English writer Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) who was considered a leader of modern thought during his time observed correctly: “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”


Posted by Stephen Nold on October 2, 2007 | Comments (4)


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October 2, 2007
In response to: Tech Smart or Dumb Founded?
Oscar Alarcon commented:

Stephen,
I’ve used GoToMeeting for online conferencing. It allows my audience to view my screen as I give my presentation which lets us be on the same (web) page, or at least the same screen. The real-time, screen-sharing features move things along at the presenters’ pace. The tool also allows guests to call in to hear the presenter speak and has a chat feature. Sorry no video. Only way I could do that would be to run Skype… and I don’t know if my processor could handle so much technology!!

Oscar




October 3, 2007
In response to: Tech Smart or Dumb Founded?
Stephen Nold commented:

Nice promotion for GoToMeeting, which I have also found as a fairly robust solution.




October 4, 2007
In response to: Tech Smart or Dumb Founded?
Mark Sylvester commented:

Stephen,
I am just back from MAX 2007, the Adobe event where I was able to better understand the capability of Adobe Connect Pro. This is their answer to WebEx and other solutions such as GoToMeeting. I am not sure how it works, but am going to be experiementing myself today. I met the Business Unit Manager, who it turns out, I worked with for ten years at Alias Wavefront, so my anticipation that this will be a great solution is increased substantially.

I worked with Breeze back in the day when it was a Macromedia product and I believe that Connect Pro sits on that code base (but don't quote me).

Good luck on finding a solution.

Mark




October 8, 2007
In response to: Tech Smart or Dumb Founded?
Stephen Nold commented:

Mark,
If I understand correct, Adobe Connect Professional is formerly the Macromedia Breeze product and Adobe Connect is an entirely new product altogether. I think the marketing team got left out of the discussion about brand confusion from this backward product naming scheme.
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I hear that this dedicated Web meeting application offers great real-time whiteboard capabilities but the windows sharing functionality can cause problems during presentations. It does host up to 15 users and uses Flash Player. I also understand it can integrate webcam feeds, which will quickly become a cool feature of most webinars to allow speaker visibility during presentations. Mac users will be happy to know that they can utilize this tool as both hosts and participants.
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I am sorry they left out session recording capabilities as this is extremely valuable to our organization for our qualitative interviews.
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I have only seen a few minor reviews, but expect to hear more feedback as the market begins to purchase this tool. Let’s plan to circle back in a few months to determine what impact Adobe Connect might have on the tradeshow and events industry.





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