March 2nd, 2007
e/pop Web Conferencing – secure, web, VoIP and video conferencing. This web conferencing software goes far beyond traditional conferencing services (PowerPoint, application and desktop sharing), to include audio (VoIP) and video conferencing, remote control, and a complete set of real-time controls over layouts, users and bandwidth – all as standard, built-in features of the product.
e/pop is available as on-premise software and hosted service. For distributed networks, on-premise installation provides IT managers with maximum control over routing, performance and security. For example, internal web conferencing company requirements can be met by installing the server behind the firewall, eliminating the need to route any traffic outside the company network. For conferencing between internal and external users, e/pop supports SSL/TLS, and even supports using the customers own certificate and/or PKI for the highest level of secure web conferencing available.
e/pop web conferencing software has no server prerequisites (other than the operating system and a static IP address), thereby dramatically reducing installation and maintenance time. According to PC Magazine (May 2004) , e/pop web conferencing installs in “5 minutes and 5 mouse clicks!” e/pop is covered by Wainhouse Research, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, and many other research firms.
Multipoint Video Conferencing Software
e/pop is quickly becoming one of the most popular video conferencing solutions. Multiparty IP video conferencing is a standard feature in e/pop web conferencing, all the security, proxy and firewall compatibility, plus ease of installation and maintenance mentioned above apply. Many customers use e/pop for its video conferencing features alone. e/pop Internet video conferencing uses a browser-based client, and industry standard, off-the-shelf video conferencing equipment. This means you can conference with anyone with a (Windows) PC and an Internet connection, and it is far more cost effective than traditional, hardware-based point-to-point solutions.
Video Conferencing Case Studies, Applications and Commentaries
For your convenience, this site includes a brief video conferencing history page, along with commentary on the future of video conferencing. There are also commentaries on video conferencing in telemedicine, manufacturing, and specialty applications such as video arraignment and the latest industry topic, Cisco telepresence. This page includes video conferencing case studies, along with links to several articles on web and video conferencing. For general product information including screen shots, details on video codecs and recording formats, movies and clips (H263, MPGEG, MPEG4) , please visit video conferencing guides.
Read more here : http://www.wiredred.com/web-conferencing/
March 2nd, 2007
Anyone who has been running their own site/blog for a while can appreciate which statistics actually matter and the different types of visitor you get. It’s one thing to have excellent content that the search engines love but it’s crucial to ensure your visitors are reading more than the page they land on.
1 page per visit = bad
That’s the philosophy you need to adopt because someone who visits your site and doesn’t view any other pages could mean one of several things. Either your navigation is rubbish, the content is rubbish or the visitor didn’t find what he/she was looking for (and didn’t see anything else on that page offering any site-wide value).
1 page per visitor is bad because it doesn’t help you grow. True your traffic stats look fine but is your site suffering?
Multiple pages per visitor = good
Multiple pages per visit either means the visitors are enjoying your content, it’s relevant to what they were looking for or your site invites people to click around. This is good because it means more impressions and a higher chance of contribution. If people enjoy your content, they’ll return.
How do I improve my page views?
This was something I wanted to focus on when I redesigned the site. Previously I was averaging around 1.2 page views per visitor (probably less) because there was no clear link between articles. Because the site was fairly new I was unable to cross-refer between content and it was largely a one hit affair. You find the page through search engines, read it and leave it - whether it was relevant or not the behaviour is the same.
Related Material
This is a great way of cross-linking between articles - introduce a “Related articles” area that matches similar content by tag/title/topic because the chances are that if your visitor was reeled in on this topic then similar posts hold the most chance of securing them as a multi-page visitor. Multiple pages of good content can easily secure you a regular visitor.
Offer non-relevant links
I’ve found that showing the most recently commented articles is a great way of bringing old content back from the dead. Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s not useful and if sufficient search engine traffic is sent through it then one visitor is likely to comment on the submission. If someone commented on it then it means it has use and is therefore brought into view (on non-article pages like the homepage, for space reasons).
Navigation/archives
This is something I should focus on more because if you view all the articles in the Linux category, you’re presented with an ever-increasingly long list of submissions. This isn’t pretty and I doubt it’s useful but I’m unsure of how best to group them.
Having “Top Posts” is a good idea
This is something I realised while reading JohnChow.com - that having a “Top Posts” is a great way of presenting a blogging portfolio of sorts. First time visitors who are unsure of your quality can look here to see the best you have to offer. Therefore your most successful articles (or those of which you are most proud) should be placed here for all to see. Basically you’re saying “the content is interesting, here, look”.
Careful selection of your best material is key because there will be users on the brink of conversion who need that extra hint of excellence to subscribe to your RSS feed.
Collected from net for reference.
