{"288721":{"#nid":"288721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"WebEx: Meeting and Video Conferencing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGiving a presentation or attending a meeting just got easier with the campus-wide roll out of WebEx, a desktop web conferencing service that offers on-demand, real-time, collaborative web meetings and conferencing to all faculty, staff, and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith WebEx, you can host a live meeting and invite colleagues to join from wherever they are--using a desktop, laptop, smartphone, or iPad. WebEx works with PC, Mac, and Linux with apps for iOS, Android, and Blackberry. Since WebEx uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), you don\u2019t need a dedicated phone line either.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo start a meeting, simply sign in to Georgia Tech\u2019s WebEx site, set up the conference time, and email the details to your attendees from a link that WebEx sends you. Then shortly before your meeting, make sure everything is set up, much as you would if you were in a meeting room.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith its real-time access, you can toggle between a presentation and a live demo on your desktop or take a poll of your audience. You can turn on video if you want your audience to see you, allow attendees to use their webcams in a live meeting, share or edit a document, and brainstorm with others using WebEx\u2019s whiteboard. Because it\u2019s a robust system, WebEx can handle up to 500 attendees in one meeting, and with Tech\u2019s license agreement, your attendees don\u2019t have to be associated with Georgia Tech to attend a virtual meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOIT expects the full roll-out of this service to allow more collaboration both locally and internationally,\u201d says Kim MacLeod, Sr. Application Developer and WebEx Service Manager for the Office of Information Technology (OIT). \u201cOne Tech student needed to defend his thesis with faculty in several countries recently, and WebEx was the perfect solution.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMark Juliano, Director of Information Technology for the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, is already on board. \u0022I\u0027ve had two of my professors testing it,\u201d he says, \u201cand it\u0027s been working flawlessly for one in France and another in Germany.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELync and WebEx have overlapping functionality so in most cases, it comes down to personal preference. WebEx allows you to record audio and video using its own player for playback later or for archiving meetings, and you can keep the same URL for reoccurring meetings. In addition, WebEx provides 24X7\/365 end-user support from Cisco.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo access WebEx, visit the WebEx Self Service page at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.oit.gatech.edu\/webex\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.oit.gatech.edu\/webex\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGiving a presentation or attending a meeting just got easier with the campus-wide roll out of WebEx, a desktop web conferencing service that offers on-demand, real-time, collaborative web meetings and conferencing to all faculty, staff, and students.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Campus-wide roll out of WebEx, a desktop web conferencing service that offers on-demand, real-time, collaborative web meetings and conferencing to all faculty, staff, and students."}],"uid":"27572","created_gmt":"2014-04-07 11:10:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:11","author":"Kim MacLeod","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"174291","name":"OIT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"340","name":"collaboration"},{"id":"91021","name":"video conferencing"},{"id":"12556","name":"webex"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKim MacLeod (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kim.macleod@oit.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekim.macleod@oit.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kim.macleod@oit.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}