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19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences

Tony Karrer

We’ve used Elluminate as our webinar system. It has issues with firewalls. Open discussions have worked, but they are risky. Thanks to Scott Skibell , we recorded the sessions directly off the web, i.e., outside of Elluminate and he produced great recordings. Technical Issues. I often find they meander too much for me.

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Can anybody hear me?

Learning with e's

No access to Elluminate. Proxy error or firewall problem. Eventually, bless 'em, they logged me into a specialised system - known as the access grid - which was open with no networking restrictions. Chat messaging on Elluminate was working OK, but not the best medium for presenting a live talk. They couldn't resolve it.

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Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary

Tony Karrer

Firewalls and restrictive corporate environments caused us considerable grief: Yahoo Groups were restricted in some corporate environments, Elluminate did not work through several firewalls, we had to switch to WebEx and that really goofed up the start of the course; Yahoo Toolbar (for MyWeb ) couldn't be installed on locked desktops.

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