Video Conferencing with Live Meeting

One of the great things about Live Meeting is how easy it is to use; especially if you’re already using other Office products such as Outlook.

Live Meeting comes with a free Outlook plugin, which will enable you to start a meeting straight from your Outlook client. You can also use the plugin to create invitation emails, and send to whomever you want to attend your meeting. The email generated automatically includes all access details for the meeting.

The attendees you’ve invited have two options if they want to join your meeting. Either they can download the Live Meeting client and install it on their Windows machine. Otherwise, they can use the web client, which can be used by anyone with an Internet browser and a broadband connection. Although this route does not allow certain features, it’s particularly useful for a webinar situation when a larger group of people may be attending without wishing to use every function of Live Meeting.

Click above image to enlarge : The plugin for Outlook adds three buttons to your Outlook client which can be used to launch the Live Meeting client, or schedule future meetings.

Click above image to enlarge: Once you’ve scheduled a meeting, a calendar event is automatically posted. Especially useful if you’re using Outlook’s shared calendars feature.

Click above image to enlarge: Instantly create invitation emails using the Live Meeting toolbar in Outlook. This gives the exact details for your meeting to anyone you send the email to. Schedule a Live Meeting just as you would set up an ordinary meeting in Outlook. Easy!