MACROMEDIA BREEZE-FOR MEETING PRESENTERS, Manual

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INTRODUCTION
Overview of Breeze Live
Macromedia Breeze is a rich web communication system that eliminates the time and cost of
travel and unnecessary meetings. It enables organizations to easily share important information
over the Internet by connecting people to people, and people to information.
Macromedia Breeze includes a set of components that provide an integrated solution for your
communication, collaboration, and training needs. Breeze can be deployed with either some or all
of these components together:
Breeze Presentation
Personalize presentations with your own voice-over and easily deliver them
to standard web browsers through the ubiquitous Flash Player.
Breeze Training
Rapidly create content and build complete online training systems including
integrated surveys, tracking, analysis, and course management.
Breeze Live
Meet and collaborate instantly with colleagues over the Internet.
The underlying Breeze platform provides a flexible central library, administration tools, and more.
Breeze offers flexibility in deployment: a Hosted Service for enabling web communications with
zero setup time, and a Licensed Server for deploying within corporate firewalls for complete
control and security.
Breeze meetings
Breeze Live is unique among web meeting applications in that you use it not only to schedule a
meeting, but to create an online “meeting room” in which the meeting is held. When you create a
Breeze meeting room, you specify the way you want presentation material to appear in
participants’ browsers and you determine the kind of content—for example: audio, video,
PowerPoint, an application running on your computer—that is made available.
A meeting takes place during a given time period and then it is over. A Breeze meeting room exists
before a meeting and continues to exist after the meeting. You can use the same meeting room
(and meeting room setup) from one meeting to the next.
You create a Breeze meeting room using the Breeze Manager web application. For more
information, see the
Using the Breeze Manager guide. When you create a Breeze meeting room, it
is assigned a unique URL. Participants attend a meeting by going to the meeting room’s URL
with their browser. The meeting room is a Macromedia Flash application that runs in a browser
window using Macromedia Flash Player.