Collaboration Tools
Dear Friends,
Since our network is at the cutting edge of global cooperation I would like to invite our members to learn more about the collaboration tools that are mentioned further down. We need to learn how to use them!
Your help is most welcome!
Most warmly!
Evelin
Collaboration Tools - Special Event
There are now a bewildering number of computer-based collaboration tools on the market. They typically provide audio and video, whiteboard, chat, document sharing etc. And they cost varying amounts of money to use.
As a public service, the Internet2 Commons is hosting a special event to showcase a number of these products, and make them available to you for FREE.
This collaboration tools extravaganza is called the COLLABORANZA !!
Anyone, anywhere may participate. You need not be connected to Internet2 to participate.
Of course, the performance you obtain is related to the speed of your computer and the speed of your Internet connection.
During the week of May 8-12, these tools are available for you:
- RADVision Click-to-Meet
- Microsoft Conference XP
- EVO
- inSORS (Access Grid)
- Marratech
These are the vendors that have chosen to be part of the Internet2 Commons Hosting Environment.
The times 10 AM to 5 PM EDT (GMT-4) each day. Hours might be extended.
On these days, all these vendors will make multiple formal presentations about their products, and they will provide expert help desk services to answer your questions. You will need to install and activate each one on your computer to try them out. The tools themselves will be used for the presentations and the help desks. Details and Instructions will be provided on the Internet2 Commons web site http://commons.internet2.edu
Participants will be entered into a lottery to win Prizes, which includes (so far) an IPOD Nano, donated by RADvision.
A concurrent H.323 videoconference will be running in order to test which of the products are truly capable of inter-operating through an H.323 bridge. You will be able to talk with those vendors who have H.323 capability, and with one another to compare notes. Connection instructions will be on the web page.
Lessons learned and evaluations will be gathered to help potential adopters of one tool or another with their decision-making and to help producers improve their products. Everybody wins!
See you there!
Bob Dixon
dixon.8 @ osu.edu
