Amazon.com Review
With Web-based conferencing being hot and growing hotter, Susan Peck and Beverly Scherf have put everything you need to enable your site to join the action into one concise volume. And that includes software for WebBoard, Web conferencing, and chat software for Windows 95 and NT. The book proper--a hybrid of guidebook and manual--guides you through the steps of conference system building, management, and use. You'll find additional practical insights and ideas from the case studies of a diverse group of conferencing systems. This book and its software are a great deal for those who want more interactivity on their sites.
Product Description
Building Your Own Web Conferences is a complete guide for Windows(R) 95 and NT(TM) users on how to set up and manage dynamic virtual communities that improve workgroup collaboration and keep visitors coming back to your site. This book comes with O'Reilly's WebBoard(TM) 2.0 software on CD-ROM. You'll get the software and expertise you need to:
- Provide real-time chat areas with the ability to sell advertisement space in your chat sessions
- Set up Web conferences to run in conjunction with WebBoard 2.0's internal Web server or with any Windows CGI- or ISAPI-compliant Web server (including WebSite and WebSite Professional(TM), FastTrack(TM), and IIS)
- Create forums that can be viewed in frames
- Give participants the ability to attach files to a message, including text, audio, video, and multimedia files
- Offer spell checking with WebBoard 100,000-word American-English dictionary
- Create multiple conferences in each conferencing area, and build "virtual boards"
- Remotely administer your conferences from anywhere
