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Free VoIP Headset Bonanza!

Roland Steinmetz — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:46:40 +0000

This month we are giving it all away! We have 100 Computer VoIP Headset sitting here, waiting to be send to YOU! So how do you get you hands on one? There are two option:

1. Sign Up And Trial our Global Flat Fee Conference Call service! This service is offering Europes lowest flat rate conference call at just €0.05 / minute / per participant plus local Irish dial in numbers for Cork, Limerick, Dublin and +100 plus more global locations. Try it today and get you free headset.

2. Sing Up And Trial our Video Messaging, Video Email and webcasting collaboration service. This is a unique video solution that brings ease of use video production combine with high quality results into the business world. Try video for you business and see how it will transform you communication today and get your free headset.

Here is the comfortable headband headset with microphone that is up for grabs.

Save Up To 90% With Local Dial-ins

Roland Steinmetz — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:12:21 +0000

Meeting.ie is the only Irish provider of Conference Calls with local dial-in point in Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Tralee, Waterford, Letterkenny and Galway. Try it today and save money instantly with Ireland lowest flat rate conference calls!

What Is A Conference Call?

A conference call is a phone call, in which the person or organization placing the call wants more than one caller to participate in the call, either actively or as a listener. The call host notifies other participants via email or calendar about the conference call. Participants can join the call directly by using a special phone number that links them across a “conference bridge,” or designated telephone number configured to link multiple phone lines. Meeting.ie reserves such a bridge for each group of conference participants and uses it to connect groups and users.

Who Needs To Make Conference Calls?

Conference calls are made by your neighbourhood businesses, professional bodies, membership associations, major corporations, sports clubs, relatives and friends; anyone and everyone. Members of our growing national and international community of users now communicate more effectively and economically. Whether they only need an answer to a quick question, or have a major announcement to share with thousands of participants, they know Meeting.ie isn’t just another conference call company.

Cost savings with local dial-ins and Small Business Conferencing?

Small business owners can now invite up to 50 people to participate in a domestic or international conference call, to and from over 45 countries, via toll-free or local access numbers. With our low global flat rate and superior conference call services will reduce your conferencing costs by up to 90%, compared to other conference call companies.

When you need to call Dublin, London, Boston, Berlin, Bangalore, Australia, China or any other foreign country, a local access number service will save you time and money. International calls consist of dialing an exit code, country code, and then the telephone number. With traditional long distance carriers a monthly fee is added to your phone and conferencing bill. You will save substantial money by using local conference call dial-in points.

How is a Local Conference Call Differs from a standard one?

A Local Conference Call provides a local access number that makes the need for international calls unnecessary. Having a local number you can call directly local instead of a long distance call. The participants do not have to dial outside of their country and now not even outside their city anymore to participate in a call. This leads to immense cost savings due to not dialling a long distance and / or national numbers.

Cost savings between 50% – 90% are achieved by the customer instantly.

Meeting.ie is the only Irish provider of Conference Calls that has local dial-in point in Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Tralee, Waterford, Letterkenny, Galway. Try it today and save money instantly with Ireland lowest flat rate conference calls!

7 Tips For Powerful And Effective PowerPoint Presentations!

Roland Steinmetz — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:40:09 +0000

Here are some tips for producing powerful and effective PowerPoint Presentations!

1.Keep it Simple

PowerPoint is software that is designed as a convenient way to display graphical information that would support the speaker and supplement the presentation. The slides themselves were never meant to be the star of the presentation. Remember that people have come to the presentation to hear what you have to say and only want to read the slides as a support. Don’t let your message and your ability to tell a story gets derailed by slides that are unnecessarily complicated, busy or full of useless information. Also try and have lots of white space or free space in your slides. If there are white spaces in your slides then don’t feel compelled to fill them with unnecessary graphics or text boxes that do not contribute to the presentation.

2. Limit bullet points and text

Your presentation is for the benefit of the audience. But boring an audience with bullet point after bullet point is of little benefit to them. Next is the issue of how much text you should have in a slide? Some of the best slides actually may have no text at all. This may sound strange but the best slides will be of no use without the narration you give. Remember, the slides are meant to support the narration of the speaker. Some people who miss the presentation may ask you to send then the PowerPoint slides, but if the slides are good they will be of little use without you.

3. Use High Quality Graphics

Use high quality graphics, including photographs. You can take photos with your digital camera and put them in your slides. Never stretch a small, low-resolution photo to make it fit your layout- doing so will degrade the resolution even further. Avoid using PowerPoint Clip Art. Most of your audience will have seen these a million times before. Also the inclusion of Clip Art often undermines the professionalism of the presenter.

4. Use appropriate charts

Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their onscreen charts. There are several ways to display your data in graphic form; here are a few things to keep in mind:

Pie Charts: Used to show percentages. Limit the slices to 4-6 and contrast the most important slice either with colour or by exploding the slice.
Vertical bar charts: Used to show changes in quantity over time. Best if you limit the bars to 4-8.
Horizontal bar charts: Used to compare quantities. For example, comparing sales figures among the four regions of the company.
Line Charts: Generally used to demonstrate different trends.

5. Choose your colours and fonts well

The right colour can help persuade and motivate. Studies show that colour usage can increase interest and improve learning comprehension. Colours can be broken down into two general categories: Cool (green and blue) and warm (orange and red). Cool colours work best for backgrounds, as they appear to recede away from us into the background. Warm colours generally work best for objects in the foreground (such as text) because they appear to be coming at us.

Fonts communicate subtle messages in and for themselves, which is why you should use fonts rights. Use the same font set throughout your entire slide presentation and use no more than two complementary fonts.

6. Use video or audio

Use video and audio when appropriate. Using video clips to show concrete examples promotes active cognitive processing, which is the natural way people learn. Using a video clip not only will illustrate your point better, it will also serve as a change of pace, thereby increasing the interest of your audience.

7. Spend time in the slide sorter

According to the segmentation principle of multimedia learning theory, people comprehend better when information is presented in small chunks or segments. By getting out of the slide view and into the slide sorter view you can see how the logical flow of your presentation is progressing.

The Nuts and Bolts of Webcasting and Video Messaging

Tapsya — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:59:41 +0000

This expert webcast in our “Stand Out From the Crowd” series with Gary Anderson, CEO Netbriefings and his superb management team will take place on the 24th of March, 2010 01:30pm – 02:00pm GMT.

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE LIVE SESSION ON THE 24TH 13:30pm GMT

This is the “Nuts and Bolts of Webcasting and Video Messaging” web event and we will talk about the following:

Recording video messages
Live meetings and web events
How to conduct live webinars
Setup, greeting, playlists
Starting and stopping to record
Scheduling live meetings
Invitations
Presenter and participants screen
Understanding webcasting screens
Push video and slides
Q & A

If you want to attend this event or have a questions please comment above in “Comments” or send us an email to webcast’at’meeting.ie

Cork Company Fosters a New Wave of Lean, Green Business Machines

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:41:35 +0000

Cork Company Fosters a New Wave of Lean, Green Business Machines
Meeting.ie helps companies skip the trip to make cost and environmental savings

CORK, Ireland – In an era where companies large and small are falling prey to economic climate change, Meeting.ie Director Roland Steinmetz says it’s survival of the leanest out there. And the online meeting solutions company is feeling bullish about the future.

“More and more businesses are looking to distributed meeting solutions like video conferencing and web collaboration to save on travel costs,” he points out. “Mobile workers – the people who travel for work or telecommute – are the fastest growing workplace segment and companies are looking a lot harder at ways to bring these people together and put them in front of clients without putting them on a plane.”

The result is explosive growth in the virtual meeting industry. According to a report from Frost & Sullivan, video conferencing is poised to grow into a $4.7 billion industry worldwide by 2014. 80% of managers surveyed who have not yet deployed virtual meeting solutions plan to bring them on board over the next two to three years. Steinmetz says that according to the new figures released by Meeting.ie, his company has saved its customers more than 14,000 hours of travel time, not to mention a lot of plane fare.

“The return on investment for particular segments like sales, research and development and marketing is astronomical. We’re talking pennies for a meeting that takes minutes to set up, instead of hundreds or thousands of euros in travel costs for the participants.”

Fewer companies, claims Steinmetz, are motivated by the desire to go green, but the carbon savings made from services like web collaboration, conference calling and video conferencing are unmistakeable. His customers, he says, are poised to save nearly 2,000 metric tonnes of CO2 by the end of 2010. “That’s a lot of trees,” he points out, “Since an average tree absorbs about a ton of CO2 over it’s lifetime, it’s actually a small forest of carbon savings.”

Shared Visions Re-Brands as Meeting.ie

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:51:15 +0000

Shared Visions has officially re-launched as Meeting.ie and we’re absolutely delighted to unveil the new, re-branded Meeting.ie website. Why the change? We’re on a mission to streamline and simplify our services, to clearly explain the value of what we have to offer, and to make our best-of-breed product solutions easy to choose and to buy.

Clear and transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing
Carefully packaged and explained services
Online purchasing for key conferencing hardware products
Solutions on a per-sector basis, with a focus on sales and marketing
A new, integrated helpdesk for support

We hope the Meeting.ie brand clearly conveys what we do – help small and large companies to meet smarter – and that our new site give you an excellent user experience. If you have any feedback or issues, please feel free to contact us – we’d love to hear your views.

Healthcare streamlined – Doctor via the click of a button!

Roland Steinmetz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:41:49 +0000

Although technology will not replace the visit to the family doctor, video conferencing is emerging as powerful component in telemedicine and telehealth. Video conferencing helps many patients, and enables doctors to communicate with specialists without local boundaries in order to make critical diagnoses faster.

Telemedicine is the use of medical information that is exchanged between treatment sites via electronic communications. Telehealth describes remote healthcare that may include clinical services. Telemedicine and telehealth may use video conferencing, still images, documents, e-health (patient portals for example) and remote monitoring of vital signs. According to reports Telemedicine is successfull applied in almost 50 different medical subspecialties areas including: dermatology, ophthalmology, mental health, cardiology and pathology to name a few.

IP-based videoconferencing (like our services) has empower the growth and evolution of telemedicine and telehealth. In the next 10 years virtually all telehealth transmissions will occur using Internet Protocol says The Association of Telehealth Service Providers (ATSP). This is especially important because it provides the real-time communication and interaction required in a doctor, or health provider and patient relationship.

Shared Visions Video Conferencing services help to further the growth, acceptance and adoption of telemedicine initiatives. Keeping telemedicine costs low enables providers to reach out to a broader audience, including those in rural regions and low-income patients who cannot afford to travel long distances for care. Once telemedicine reaches maturity, it will be possible to bringing top-notch health care to those who really need it via video conferencing and without the time delay and cost of traveling to a clinic in another state or country.

Here is a good example of already applied telemedicine. Want to know more? Contact us on telemedicine@sharedvisions.ie or call 021-492 89 54.