Meet and Collaborate Online
with Live Meeting Web Conferencing Software
Dynamic meetings with remote employees. Sales-winning demos. Company-wide training that's on-demand and instantly accessible. Live Meeting is real-time interactive web conferencing software that let's you meet and collaborate online in a productive, media-rich environment.
As part of the Microsoft Office suite, Live Meeting integrates smoothly and seamlessly with your existing systems. So, you can schedule a meeting from Outlook, drag-and-drop documents from Excel and Word or go on a web tour using your browser. It works with non-Microsoft products, too. That's the real power of Live Meeting. You can broadcast visuals of any type to remote participants in real-time.
With Encounter's Live Meeting web conferencing software you can:
- Host 2 to more than 2000 participants. Live Meeting is versatile enough to handle small group collaboration or major events for thousands of people
- Show any visuals, applications, web pages, documents, or software to remote participants in real-time
- Share control of documents, applications, or even your desktop to any participant
- Start audio conferences on-the-fly directly from the Live Meeting console
- Take advantage of our flexible service plans. With Encounter you're not stuck with a one-size-fits-all conferencing solution. We'll tailor a service plan for your needs
Getting started is easy
Live Meeting is a hosted service that requires a quick, one-time download for presenters and attendees. It takes just minutes to get up and running, so you can start hosting meetings right away. To start a meeting, you simply log into your Live Meeting account, upload your presentation materials and go. It's that easy. Your attendees log-in from from their PCs and from there you can kick off a project, brainstorm ideas, edit files, collaborate on whiteboards, and more.
A range of tools and features
From annotation tools to whiteboards for collaboration, to polling, surveys and chat for real-time communication, Live Meeting's tools and features keep meetings engaging and productive. Live Meeting comes in two editions, Standard and Professional.
Live Meeting Editions
| Core Features | Standard Edition |
Professional Edition |
| Presentation Tools | • | • |
| Application, View and Presentation Sharing | • | • |
| Document and Desktop Sharing | • | • |
| Persistent Content | • | • |
| Attendance Reports | • | • |
| Web Tours and Web Slides | • | • |
| Document Capture and Show | • | • |
| Secure Login and Content Encryption | • | • |
| Meet Now Instant Meetings | • | • |
| Application, Document and Desktop Remote Control | • | |
| Printing and Handouts (PDF) | • | |
| Replay Recordings | • | |
| View Details | ||
Live Meeting FeaturesPresentation toolsAnnotation—Draw, highlight and type directly on your slides in real-time in order to focus your audience's attention on the particular point you're discussing. Whiteboards—Illustrate an idea or draw a picture for your audience quickly and conveniently. Text slides—Instantly create interactive text slides to capture agendas, meeting notes, action items, or to track progress of team meeting notes. |
Application, view & presentation sharingBroadcast any visuals, applications, web pages, documents, or software to remote participants in real-time. Audience members will be able to see exactly what you are doing including all of your mouse movements and keyboard inputs. |
Document & desktop sharingBroadcast the presenter's desktop to all participants. Audience members will be able to see exactly what the presenter is doing including all mouse movements and keyboard inputs. Show and broadcast any document to all participants. Any document can be displayed and broadcast. To use document sharing, open any document and use the sharing feature to share anything with remote participants. |
Live Meeting Places: Persistent ContentUpload your presentation in advance. Add visuals, live web tours, or new interactive slides before your presentation begins. Reorganize or modify visuals quickly and easily. When it's show time, all your materials are safely and securely stored and ready for use. Plus, you can access your presentation materials from any system with special presenter security keys. |
Attendance reportsDetailed real-time usage reports let you track attendance to your sessions and events so you can see who attended and for how long. View trend reports for sessions and recordings to get a big picture view of how your company is using PlaceWare. See statistics on each of your recordings to measure how they are being used and by whom. |
Guided web tours and interactive web slidesTake your audience to any live web page. Each attendee can click on links, fill out forms, or use interactive media. Add web slides to your presentation quickly and easily just by entering the URL. The preview feature allows you to see the page before you show it to your audience. You can also add Flash and other animations to your presentation. One click brings attendees back to the main presentation |
Document capture and show (SnapShot™)Capture
any visual on your computer and show it to
your audience. Once you've taken a SnapShot,
use annotation tools to highlight information
quickly and conveniently. |
Secure login and content encryptionAll slide content is encrypted using 128-bit encryption to protect confidential information while in transit, while being stored, and when transmitted to each attendee in your session. Control
access to meetings with Meeting IDs and
Meeting Keys or through individual authentication
via Access Control Lists. Create attendee
keys or require individual user IDs and
passwords for each invited guest. As a
presenter, you can decide what type of
access control is most appropriate for
your session. |
Schedule meetings and Email invitationsSend invitations automatically to remote attendees with your own email application. Attendees can add session information to their calendar with one click. Create recurring meetings or sessions quickly and easily. |
Meet Now Instant MeetingsCreate an instant or ad-hoc meeting. Give access to colleagues, prospects, partners, or customers so you can quickly use visuals to get your point across. Provide one-click access to sessions plus the ability to send instant invitations to your audience. With the optional recording feature, you can even record your instant meetings or scheduled meetings |
Application, document & desktop remote controlsGive control of any application on your system to remote participants. PlaceWare's application sharing remote control is safe and secure and provides encoding to protect content plus access controls to prevent accidental or malicious damage to files. Attendees do not need any plug-ins to share, making it quick and easy to collaborate or provide hands-on learning. Remote control allows you to hand control of any document, application, or your desktop to any remote participant. Both you and the participant have full control of that application. |
Live Meeting replay recordingsRecord and save a copy of your session with PlaceWare ReplayT. Easier to use than a VCR, PlaceWare Replay captures everything in your session including the live demonstrations, annotations, notes, visuals and even live web slides. |
For large events
When it comes to online events, nothing beats the power and accessibility of Live Meeting. For product rollouts, corporate announcements, training classes, seminars and other large events, Live Meeting enables multiple presenters to simultaneously present to a large group of attendees. Any of these presenters can instantly become the active presenter and drive the meeting without having to pass control back and forth. Seating chart and feedback indicators inside the meeting console give instant feedback to presenters to help pace the session or highlight participant needs.
Or small collaborative meetings
When used for smaller meetings, the spotlight focuses on the collaboration features of Live Meeting. Participants and presenters can deliver presentations, share applications, or collaborate using text and whiteboard tools in a highly interactive, live environment. Presenters remain in control at all times and can share or take back the controls at any time.
Encounter's Conferencing Tools: The Icing on the Cake
Designed to make meeting registration and management fast and convenient, Encounter's Conferencing Tools are included with select Live Meeting Packages and include:
- The Meeting Page, which allows you to post agendas and deliver documents and messages before, during and after your meeting
- The Scheduling Page, for scheduling your meetings online and distributing electronic invitations to your attendees
- The Registration Wizard, which guides you through the process of creating a customized online registration page
Flexible Service Plans
Encounter offers Live Meeting conferencing packages scaled to meet your needs.Data-only, data plus audio, small meeting sizes or large ones, with Encounter you can choose what's best for your business needs.
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