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Facilitate.com
announces FacilitatePro 9.0™, the online
meeting solution for the “other kind of meeting”
Over 1 billion meetings a year are
held to brainstorm ideas and make decisions. Most web
collaboration tools don’t address the key productivity
pitfalls of these meetings. FacilitatePro online meeting
software is specifically designed to streamline the
decision making process in collaborative meetings.
25% of the 4 billion meetings held
each year aren’t just about listening to presentations.
They are about solving problems and making decisions,
according to Chuck McPherson, CEO of Interactive Meeting
Solutions, a high tech meeting firm in Santa Rosa,
California. Yet despite the buzz, most of the web collaboration
tools in the marketplace don’t address the key
productivity pitfalls of these meetings.
“Web conferencing addresses the informational
meeting, such as a sales demo or a training session,
where knowledge
is pushed out to an audience through a PowerPoint or
a desktop application,” explains McPherson. “There
may be some limited two way exchange in the form of
chat windows and simple polling. However, these services
don’t address the real productivity issues of
decision-making meetings, which have to do with overcoming
inhibitions, dealing with over-dominant players, and
keeping participants fully engaged. Online meeting
software like FacilitatePro flattens meeting politics
and keeps people focused on the end goal.”
The International Association
of Machinists adopted
FacilitatePro to help unions and businesses forge joint
decision-making partnerships Jim Reid, High Performance
Work Organization Partnerships staff, explains: “FacilitatePro
allows union members and management representatives
to brainstorm key issues anonymously, so that the best
ideas surface without any social or political inhibitors.
With FacilitatePro we are able to bring the two sides
of the table together, in a conference room or over
the Internet. The result is a common action plan to
promote job and business growth."
FacilitatePro web-based collaboration software is designed
to capture, organize, prioritize and document ideas.
Participants post their ideas via an electronic “note
pad” onto an electronic “flip chart” for
everyone to see. They build on the ideas of others
with text, attached documents, images, and web links.
The meeting leader transitions the group into decision-making
by turning the flip chart into a voting ballot and
selecting from a variety of voting schemes designed
to reach consensus. Instant voting results and graphs
provide a visual assessment of the level of agreement.
Once decisions are made, the action planning mode turns
the electronic flip chart into a simple Gantt chart.
For more information visit our live
software demonstration site or download a product overview.
About Facilitate.com
Since 1996 Facilitate.com has specialized in web-based
collaboration software tools and techniques that dramatically
enhance meeting productivity in the conference room
or over the Internet. FacilitatePro helps generate,
capture and formalize ideas with tools for brainstorming,
categorizing, voting, surveying and instant documentation.
Facilitate.com has helped over 200 clients in industry,
government and higher education transform meetings
into powerful opportunities to solve problems and take
decisive action. Visit us at www.facilitate.com.
Contact:
Danuta McCall
Facilitate.com
805-682-1148
Danuta@facilitate.com
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