June 2006 Archives

I have issues. With Conference that is. In a recent event I took a number of calls from people trying to get into an event- they thought they had registered but they couldn't get in. There's no 'enrollment' per se, so nothing I could check to see if in fact they were enrolled, and enroll them if they weren't. I just said try again, and sent them the link to attend in case they were clicking the wrong one. And, in the same event, when I clicked to publish the recording it took a long time. Overnight in fact, centra was 'publishing recording'. But it never did so successfully. And Larry had the same recording failure with a later session. Not good. For now, I'm sticking with Symposium. And maybe I'll try eMtg :)

eMeetings are meant to be rather informal, so users don't really sign up (enroll)in one. Think of it this way.. you'd sign up for a face to face symposium or training event; you'd be invited to attend a face to face meeting.

It's a good idea to send invitations for Centra eMeetings. An invitation provides a link in recipients' email to click to attend. And, if the meeting's private (by invitation only), then the invitation is their key to the door.

- contributed by Larry Lippke

If you want to use multimedia in a centra symposium session, your best bet is to insert the file into the session. I've successfully inserted a swf, wmv... but I believe they play with the participants' player, so ask them to have whatever they'll need installed beforehand if possible.