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IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide

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IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide

Overview of this book

IBM Lotus Sametime software allows you to collaborate and communicate with others in real time. By using Sametime, you can communicate with your peers and teammates with the Sametime Connect client, embedded Sametime integration with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook e-mail, or on mobile devices like a Blackberry. You will be able to connect to your colleagues via text, voice, video, or by setting up an online meeting with colleagues in several sites or countries getting the information you need to do your job and make better and faster decisions.This user guide enables you, no matter what your skill level, to develop and increase your knowledge of Sametime and how to use each feature from start to finish. It shows how you can effectively collaborate with your colleagues and teammates both in your organization and outside your organization by using the features of Sametime. It's practical, and most of all, fun!This book takes you from the basics of Sametime through to the most advanced features with a focus on real work-related situations along with plenty of screen prints to guide you. You'll learn everything from how to conduct a quick chat to conducting an online meeting. Or perhaps you want to learn how to take advantage of Sametime's telephony features or set up an online poll? The book starts by teaching you how to install Sametime and set up a contact list of people with whom you interact. Next, you learn how the chat feature of Sametime works, from using basic text to sharing screen-capture images. You learn how to use Sametime both within an organization and with other external instant messaging services like AOL, Yahoo, and Google. However, Sametime isn't restricted to just the Sametime client. You learn how to use Sametime from a web browser as well as from a mobile device. Meeting rooms with screen sharing, whiteboarding, audio, and video features are covered, as well as how Sametime integrates into an organization's phone system so that you can have a single place to go for all your communication and collaboration needs. Learn how Sametime advanced features like persistent chats and broadcast communities can help your project teams stay organized. And finally learn about Sametime 8.5 and 8.5.1.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Creating a new online meeting


So now with your login information navigate your web browser to the main webpage of Sametime Meeting Center. Once there you'll see two links on the right side of the page to Attend A Meeting or Schedule A Meeting. On the left side of the page a link to sign in to Meeting Center will be displayed.

One method for creating a meeting is to schedule it in advance. After you log into Meeting Center, you'll see a link in the left-side navigation labeled New Meeting. Clicking this link will start the meeting scheduling dialog.

The New Meeting panel is used to schedule, configure, and invite attendees to your meeting. The Essentials tab of the dialog box has the basic information for the meeting such as the title, description, date, time, duration, and the password. A password is not required for a meeting but you can use that field if you want to make sure that no one enters your meeting without the proper permissions. We recommend you do this as you wouldn't want to...