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In-person meetings of any size are costly and require a lot of advance planning. Teleconferences are cost-effective, but they do not lend themselves to efficient interaction of large groups. Virtual meetings based on instant messaging are also cost-effective, and they can accommodate thousands of guests, but the speakers can easily be overwhelmed by questions and comments from the audience.
The solution? Instant Moderated Chat for Lotus Sametime.
Structured, real-time communications with large groups of people
Instant Moderated Chat provides efficient, centrally-controlled real-time communication between presenters and their audiences in virtual meetings and conferences. Instant Moderated Chat's intuitive console enables a live moderator to receive, filter, and then select which questions are passed to which speaker. The moderator can deny inappropriate questions and block certain guests and thereby retain strict control of the meeting's direction.
Scaleable to thousands of guests Meetings can be recorded Easy to deploy and to use Manages video and presentation materials Guests can join via a Web client (Firefox, IE, etc) or via a plug-in in a Sametime Connect client Guests can be given the option to join anonymously Supports multi-language meetings Very cost-effective Instant Moderated Chat is an application based on IBM Lotus Sametime that assigns different roles—guest and speaker—to the participants in virtual meetings. Role-based attendance allows a moderator to manage interaction between those who ask questions (guests) and those who answer them (speakers).
With centralized control over who can ask questions and which questions are passed forward for answers, virtual meetings become the perfect medium for efficient, cost-effective, and large-scale corporate communication.
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