Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Online Meetings Made Engaging Through TeemingPod

Meetings and conferences, these are a part of a professional life. Be it any profession, meeting together for brainstorming sessions or conducting conferences with clients who are overseas is a must for any business. This is when we have conference calls or webinar sessions to discuss, solve, disseminate information or even conduct polls to gather majority opinion. I am sure everyone of us have already faced such situations on the professional front. 
A typical day in any professional company requires one to interact with team members and conduct group discussions for a given task. With the teams going global, all of these team members are never in the same premises to book a conference room and resolve the matter. Also, due to busy schedules, it becomes difficult to gather all of them under one roof. Hence, most conference meetings or webinars are conducted online. During the call if a decision needs to be made, the message is sent via chat to which the members reply using the same chat window. The chat window displays the views of all the members in a very unorganized way making it very difficult to take a decision immediately.
So, how does one probably ease such situations at work? It is necessary that one finds an easy way to organize information and make use of a fixed structure to make faster and timely decisions.

TeemingPod is a tool which helps to organize information in a structured way and streamline the whole process. It is a SaaS component which enables you to add powerful social interactions right into your web pages. With TeemingPod, you can interact on any web page without moving from the current page. 
You might wonder how a social interaction tool can help in such online meetings! Well, it's pretty simple. You can create a TeemingPod account and invite all your team members to that pod. Pre-meeting, members can add their queries and concerns in the pod to which others can reply using FAQ and discussion activities. Hence, before the meeting commences, all the members can share information, thus making the calls more fruitful and decisive. During the call, everyone can login to the pod and can ask questions and reply to answers, share useful links etc., thus sharing information in a structured way.
When the times comes to take a decision, all of them can cast their vote and TeemingPod can show instant results in various graphical forms like pie-chart and bar graph. Thus, it helps to take instant decisions.

To add to its advantages, users can take a back-up of discussions in the pod for future reference! To top it all, it can be done in a structured and detailed way. Isn’t this something everyone loves to view as compared to an unformatted text file?

This approach is not only being used by teams for discussions or taking decisions, but also being used by CEOs to make a company wide presentation to share its vision!
Isn’t this just the right tool to be used for making any live presentation? We leave that up to you once you check out the free trial session!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Add Powerful Social Interactions, Easily…

A typical day in any professional company is never complete without discussions, meetings, brainstorming sessions and exchange of ideas and opinions. This can include collaborating with larger groups of people and trying to note down everyone’s ideas and suggestions. After all, social interaction is very much necessary if you wish to perform well in any given task. And this is something I first noticed when I began my steps on the professional front. I had to converse and meet many team members to know about the thought process and ways to improve my project.

A simple situation that I faced while collecting data for my project was the need to mingle with different team members. A senior suggested the use of online webinar and conference sessions. I eagerly lapped the idea and the end result – plenty of documents that had to be sorted out and a need to maintain everybody’s viewpoints. With already more than enough work on hand, I had this additional task of taking care of inputs and maintaining all views of people who did not agree with the reports.


Then one fine sunny evening, things changed when the team members yelled ‘Eureka!’ When I did grasp what all the excitement was about, I almost joined in the encore. They were celebrating the creation of a very unique product. This was designed to make social interactions easy and gave a whole new definition to the way a person interacted online!

TeemingPod, the new product on the block, is an innovative idea created by our team of inspiring engineers. TeemingPod surely changes the way a person interacts online. With this product, a user can use powerful social interactions right inside a web page to interact with others. It also provides a structured way of storing information which helps reduce all the discussion clutter stored in document format.


So did TeemingPod change the way I work?! It is a true marvel that now I can start a discussion or a poll required in one go and contact the concerned group through TeemingPod. Within a matter of minutes I can know about a group opinion in a single meeting! The FAQ section is where we post any questions related to the task and receive valuable and genuine feedback from all team members. It helps us to clear our doubts before the meeting. Thus we all are on the same platform and the meetings are much more fruitful.


Further, debate activity is the one which has resolved most of my issues. Through this activity I can review important, contradictory inputs from different sets of people without maintaining them in multiple documents. This also becomes helpful for all of us to refer to in our further follow-up meetings. Through the Link Set option, we can share important work-related links for reviews. The Tag Cloud section is where I can share and search for key words that saves time for the entire team!


Since then, there has been a complete change in the way my entire team works. We no longer have to manage multiple files that contain inputs. Our meetings have become more fruitful as most of the background information is already shared through TeemingPod for all of us to look at. Apart from saving time, TeemingPod added a fun element to the way we work. So, isn’t it time you tried it out as well?