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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Virtual Community</title><link>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/26.aspx</link><description>Learn more about how communicating through email, online forums, groupware, and other community tools can support your organization's goals and mission.&lt;br /&gt;Hosted by &lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/members/MeganKeane/default.aspx"&gt;Megan Keane&lt;/a&gt; of TechSoup Global.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Debug Build: 30619.63)</generator><item><title>Re: Video Conferencing --</title><link>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/98723.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:06:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">caa7681b-025a-49ce-809f-7435bfe4d232:98723</guid><dc:creator>cedcoffice</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/98723.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=26&amp;PostID=98723</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/p/18645/18645.aspx#98398"&gt;This post has a few links that may be useful.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/p/27866/97234.aspx#97234"&gt;This post discusses DimDim, which we have yet to test out but are intrigued by.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Video Conferencing --</title><link>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/98554.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:33:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">caa7681b-025a-49ce-809f-7435bfe4d232:98554</guid><dc:creator>Lgrindrod</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/98554.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=26&amp;PostID=98554</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;We are hearing strong calls for &amp;quot;video conferencing&amp;quot; capabilities from our field sites&amp;nbsp;spread out across the state.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;It sounds like people have been a utility such as Skype to conference with friends and family and some feel it would be a valuable replacement for the typical conference call meeting.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have also been in touch with a &amp;quot;sister organization&amp;quot; that has installed a point-to-point video conferencing system that connects 5 conference rooms around the state.&amp;nbsp; They say it is easy to use, and the culture is adapting to its use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve also heard many stories about conference facilities that gather dust.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As we begin researching how the various options might work for us in a production (business) environment, I was hoping I could get some examples of video conferencing installations (point-to-point or peer-to-peer) that seem to be working...or not.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Any advice on how to proceed would also be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>