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what you think.
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Make it clear when you are an attendee (and are not allowed to
speak)
Background: I was trying to present a session, but the other end
where unable to hear me speak and I was confused why.
The reason ended up being, that the person who configure the
conference, configure me up as a attendee, not a presenter. A
attendee is not able to talk.
Give a messagebox informing the user of this, rather than
disable this option.
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Figure: Never disable this option - instead give a message
telling the user that he is an attendee without permission to
speak.
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Send invitation as an Outlook Appointment or provide a download
link for an Outlook Appointment (.vcs file)
Every now and then you get an invitation to a live meeting
session, and you want to make sure not to miss it.
What you want do then is to create a reminder / appointment in
your calendar.
This can be quite hard if you are in a different time zone!
It would be helpful if a similar link found in the newsletter
was displayed on the live meeting site.
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Figure: A Live Meeting site without the link to Internet
Calendar file.
PS: The functionality of downloading an Internet Calendar file
(.ics) is there in the newsletter, it’s just not per default
shown on a Live Meeting site.
Acknowledgments
Adam Cogan
Lei Xu