• Speak slowly and clearly
• Stay focused; avoid distractions
• Turn off your cell phone and office ringer
• Call in from a landline whenever possible
• Mute all participants to help control background noise
• Connect 10 to 15 minutes early to make sure everything is working correctly
• Reviewing meeting objectives as well as your desired outcome of the meeting
• Don’t wait for absent or late participants. Start on time or you set a precedent for always waiting for people to join.
• Keep your pre-determined end time – conclude by thanking people for their time and participation
• Ensure that after the meeting, you send a follow up email clearly stating action items, decisions made, etc.

By selecting the option to share your desktop, your meeting attendees can see whatever you have on your screen- a web site, a spreadsheet, or any job specific program you use without any installations. It’s so powerful and useful, no wonder it’s the most popular web conferencing feature today.

Using Live Meeting will bring you the following benefits:

• Effective and efficient response time increase within your business. By improving these two critical components, your business will be more than ready to accommodate any and all concerns, increasing your productivity in a way that will be essential for success.
• New product demonstrations, services instructions, and overall new product market entry will all be enhanced, ensuring a more successful reception of the items being marketed. This helps your company become more accessible, leveraging you into the mainstream and potentially increasing your business.
• Reach your employees and communicate with them effectively and professionally. Never miss any information, and stop worrying about whether or not you can get your message across the gap between management and employees.
• Expenditures and travel time will be reduced by using Live Meeting to ensure that your conferences are done even when people are far away from one another.

Features of Live Meeting Include:

• Real-time collaboration and feedback on documents and presentations
• Electronic whiteboard that allows presenters to add their own notes in real-time
• Sharing control of applications on other people’s desktops, chatting online with other members, and the ability to visit and share any meeting attendees’ websites
• Control can be shared by co-presenters to make presentations easier
• Handouts are checked for viruses when distributed for download, ensuring your meetings will not cause harm to any of the attendee’s computers, thereby preserving relationships between individuals
• Presenters are given webcam privileges to be seen during the meeting, and participants can record the presentation, share, create, and save notes for future reference.
• This is very useful for school events such as class registrations, and online exams, enabling those who cannot attend physically to still participate.