Breeze Live.Breeze Live, Macromedia (800-326-2128, www.macromedia.com), perpetual licenses start at $10,000 and annual subscriptions at $4,975. Pay per use option is also available. Note that these prices include access to all three Breeze modules. (For more pricing details, see http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/purchase/comparison.html) Breeze Live is a module of the Macromedia Breeze platform offering meetings and instant collaboration with colleagues over the web. Other components of the Breeze platform not reviewed here include Breeze Presentation, for publishing on-demand content, and Breeze Training for online course delivery and management. For web-based meetings, Breeze Live holds its own against the competition such as WebEx and Microsoft Live See Windows Live. Meeting. With Breeze you can create and produce slides starting with PowerPoint, add audio, video and animation, and publish in Macromedia Flash for audiences live or on-demand over the web. Because it is so easy to use, and is incorporated into the PowerPoint toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the with a plug-in, it's a cinch cinch a saddle girth on an American stock saddle. Tightens with a knot on a ring instead of with straps and buckles. to create live shared meetings, set up team collaboration, and provide instruction or organized delivery of information. It integrates with learning management systems; because it is SCORM SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model (web-based e-learning standard) SCORM Shared Courseware Object Reference Model SCORM Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model and AICC AICC anti-inhibitor coagulant complex. compliant, you can also deliver content through your existing LMS. As with most live meeting programs, the goal is to get to the meeting room. Breeze facilitates that with standard features, through Breeze Manager accessible from your web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. or right from the Breeze link in PowerPoint. Once you log in to Breeze Manager, you are ready to schedule a meeting with description, date, time, and duration. You can determine whether a meeting is open to all participants or just a registered guest list. BREEZE MANAGER The organization of screens in the Breeze Manager appeals to me, with menu tabs across the top of the screen, in logical order, from content, courses, meetings, users, reports, and account maintenance. Because I work with software every day, my idea of what is intuitive is pretty high so as a test, I borrowed a secretary from a client and watched her create a meeting. She stepped through the menu choices as if they had been designed for her. Even an infrequent user should be able to jump into the Breeze Manager and navigate with ease. While perfectly suited to collaborative meetings online, Breeze Live has a spontaneous element allowing more informal ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. use. By allowing instant access, with a click on a web address for your session, those invited can be instructed to log in and review materials ahead of time, not having to wait until the meeting connects them. Users can also view presentations on demand, through any web browser, and control the pace of the material. ACTUAL USE To augment PowerPoint with audio and animation, you import audio files and set timings to synchronize animation with slides and audio. A presenter's area allows you to review content that you upload for your meeting. Tip: As more web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
While Breeze Live is powerful in itself, it is only if you have the Breeze Presentation module that you can make real use of the content library. With it you can search archived meetings based on content by keyword search and hyperlinks to locate and play back the recoding Noun 1. recoding - converting from one code to another coding, steganography, cryptography, secret writing - act of writing in code or cipher . You can even add Breeze content to your corporate search engine. CUSTOM ROOMS If I wrote the script for an "extreme makeover" of an online meeting and training product, it would include the ability to set up custom rooms for a particular presenter or audience. Breeze Live rooms can be reused with specific settings through custom "pods" so they are ready for a meeting or presentation set to your preferred style. HELP AND SUPPORT Online Help is adequate, but you have to know what you are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . There is a good collection of searchable resources online at Macromedia.com including a Product Manual and a "Getting Started with Breeze" tutorial. Techies will love the development tools available for programmers and IT staff to fully customize Breeze features through the use of application program interfaces. Phone support is available during standard business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a . Now that Macromedia owns this product, you can import RoboDemo (now called Captivate) .SWF files in Breeze to create an animated simulation of your application. Content generated in RoboDemo/Captivate integrates smoothly as an instruction guide or live training aid. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS Breeze runs on Windows 98, ME, XP, NT 4.0, and 2000 and on Mac system 8.6 or later. It requires Internet Explorer 4, Netscape 4.5 or later, or AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. 7 and various other browsers. The Windows versions See Windows. require the Breeze Producer PowerPoint plug-in. REVIEWER'S RECOMMENDATION Breeze Live may seem to be on par with similar e-meeting software, but it stacks up as a superior choice for the blend of features, simplicity, and seamless integration. In my testing, Macromedia provides a superior choice with truly smooth performance, removing the fear factor for new or inexperienced users. Breeze Live delivers meetings that allow users to focus on the content, not on the computer. |
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