Over the next 20 years, nearly 80 million people will retire. This trend will lead to significant shifts in the workforce, and the potential for a tremendous loss in intellectual capital as senior staff depart. Enterprise social software can help organizations address these knowledge transfer needs.
Skype has launched a free online platform aimed at connecting teachers with other educators and classrooms around the globe.
The new platform called “Skype in the classroom,” is designed to help teachers find each other and related projects according to search criteria such as the age groups they teach, location, subjects of interest; and teaching resources that can be shared.
The time has come, AnyMeeting is now live. The transition from Freebinar to AnyMeeting is complete and the new features, including video broadcasting and meeting sizes of up to 200 participants, are in place. Not to worry, even with these great new features our service will remain free. To help with any questions you might have, we have included a link below that provides more information on how to use our video broadcasting feature. We have also provided a link with answers to frequently asked questions. Thank you all for your comments and suggestions, and we appreciate your continued support. The time has come, AnyMeeting is now live. The
Video-based communication startup Tinychat is attracting a lot of interest of late, not just from professional investors but also from celebrities from around the world.
The company just raised a $1.5 million round of financing from Ashton Kutcher, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Madonna manager Guy Oseary, among others, and hot artists like Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Bruno Mars have embedded Tinychat functionality deeply into their official websites.
Now any website owner can get Tinychat’s robust group video chat features onto their own pages, as the startup has just debuted an easy way for publishers to create and integrate a custom toolbar.
Video-based communication startup Tinychat is attracting a lot of interest of late, not just from professional investors but also from celebrities from around the world.
The company just raised a $1.5 million round of financing from Ashton Kutcher, Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Madonna manager Guy Oseary, among others.
Now any website owner can get Tinychat's robust group video chat features onto their own pages, as the startup has just debuted an easy way for publishers to create and integrate a custom toolbar.
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Online group collaboration tool Sazneo has announced its new iPhone-enabled web app, aimed at helping work teams communicate and stay connected no matter where they are.
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AgileArena is a simple, fast and productive project management tool for agile teams. Plan your backlog, see project progress in the dashboard and improve by using the retrospective tool.
In the race for greater productivity, team leaders eagerly latch onto the latest tool or productivity philosophy. It's only natural: we're keen to try new ways of getting things done. But in doing so, have we inadvertently become slaves to the machine?
As we all know, technology is changing the way that many people work. The Internet and mobile technology allow organizations to employ people regardless of location. At the same time, new software is enabling new ways to collaborate and new styles of work; there’s now a proliferation of tools, from simple hosted filesharing apps to complex integrated enterprise social networking tools. The array of choices in this “work platform” space can be bewildering, especially as many of them are very similar.
A new report at GigaOM Pro (subscription required) covers this landscape of new tools,
Collaborize Classroom™ allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions and lesson plans to a structured and private online community. (Shared in the cloud collaboration tool, powerful features for online discussions: http://wecollaborize.com/classroom.html #in)
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FuzeBox, the developer of an online meeting software, is launching its multi-party HD video conferencing technology for the iPad 2 and Android devices. Previously released in private beta, the software had been updated with support for more devices, an improved user interface, and more multimedia sharing and annotation options.
As I’ve written in the past, Fuze’s video technology provides a WebEx-like conferencing service that allows users to share screens and run meetings online. As opposed to its competitors, Fuze promises a sleeker more lightweight interface that incorporates HD video. I’ve tested the technology out multiple times, and not only is Fuze easy to use, but there is little to no latency and features high video quality.
In an effort to create a free software alternative to Skype the GNU Project has announced plans for GNU Call. The project hopes to provide secure over-the-internet calls to all users and rival the popular Skype VoIP service.
The GNU Project is one of the primary advocates and developers behind the free and open source software and provides a broad range of free software which is included in popular Linux releases.
Looking to capture a bigger slice of the lucrative market for small and medium-sized businesses, MySkypeOffice is rolling out a powerful desktop tool similar to Google Voice. MySkypeOffice, which is launching today in a free beta, offers a host of in-bound call management tools for businesses that rely on Skype as their phone system.
The features include the ability to dial by name or extension, and group users by department. MySkypeOffice can also route calls to any number, not just another Skype account, and can transcribe voicemails. Users can also record calls and use custom hold music for callers, and there’s the ability to screen voicemails as they come in and receive faxes. Users just need a Skype account.
Powwownow has released a new web conferencing tool, which is even simpler to use and is 30% faster than before, making it easier for customers to make conference calls, and allowing Powwownow to enhance its proposition as the best voice and web conferencing solution for SMEs in the UK, Europe and USA.
Avaya web.alive is the top collaboration tool for meetings, online training, support and sales. It has unique high quality positional voice (VOIP) and 3D graphics that immerse participants in the collaboration experience. You can easily share media such as slides, web pages, and perform desktop sharing. Try out web.alive for free on this site.
Web-based project management app offering unlimited storage, and many valuable features. A possible Basecamp alternative. All plans come with a free trial.
There are several brainstorming tools online but most of these are ultimately lists with nice graphics. Yutongo is a nice tool with a unique take on online (Yutongo: A Unique Brainstorming & Collaboration App - There are several brainstorming tools online but most of these... http://ow.ly/1bm5Vi)
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