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Web Conferencing Terms

Below are common terms used to describe some of the technologies and characteristics available in the Web Conferencing arena. Being familiar with these options can help you and your business to select the technologies that best fit your needs for improving growth and competitiveness.


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Data Conferencing - Refers to a communication session among two or more participants sharing computer data in real time. Interaction and presentation devices such as a screen, keyboard, mouse, camera, etc., can be shared on or controlled by another's computer. The data can include screen, documents, graphics, drawings and applications that can be seen, annotated or manipulated by participants.

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eMeeting - (See videoconference)

Meeting - In a meeting, two or more people come together for the purpose of discussing a (usually) predetermined topic such as business or community event planning, often in a formal setting. In addition to coming together physically (in real life, face to face), communication lines and equipment can also be set up to have a discussion between people at different locations, e.g. a conference call or an e-meeting.

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Video Conference - A set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. It has also been called visual collaboration and is a type of groupware. It differs from videophone in that it is designed to serve a conference rather than individuals.

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Web Conferencing - A tool used to conduct live or synchronous meetings or presentations over the Internet. In a web conference, each participant sits at his or her own computer, and is connected to other participants via the Internet. This can be either a downloaded application on each of the attendee's computers or a web-based application where the attendees will simply enter a "URL" or website meeting address to enter the live meeting or conference.

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Webinar - A type of web conference that tends to be mostly one-way, from the speaker to the audience with limited audience interaction, such as in a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, like watching a concert on the Internet. A Webinar however, can be very collaborative, and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter.

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Whiteboarding - A term used to describe the placement of shared files on an on-screen "shared notebook" or "whiteboard." Videoconferencing and data conferencing software often includes tools that let the user mark up the electronic whiteboard much as one would with a traditional wall-mounted board. A general property of this type of software is to allow more than one person to work on the image at any one time, with the two versions being kept in sync with one another in near real time.

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GotoMeeting Trial "Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc., offers the leading Web-based access, support and collaborating software and services including GoToMeeting®, the easiest, most secure and cost-effective solution for conducting online meetings. Citrix Online products are used by more than 10,000 companies worldwide."

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