Collaborative software for interactive web meeting

	Brainstorming
	Categorizing & Organizing
	Voting & Prioritizing
	Action Planning
	Surveys
	Document
	Chat

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Collaborate even when you can't find the time to meet

With FacilitatePro teams collaborate, contribute ideas and evaluate issues at a time and place convenient for them. Team members can work from home, from a hotel, or in offices thousands of miles apart. All they need is a computer, modem, and access to the Internet or their internal intranet. Project teams secure an electronic meeting room in Facilitate.com's virtual conference center, where the project leader sets up an agenda of topics for discussion. The team leader solicits input from participants, organizes the input, distributes a voting ballot, publishes the results and requests input for the next steps. Action plans keep everyone on track.

Supplement face to face meetings
Imagine arriving at an on-site meeting ready to take action and make decisions. Prior to meeting face to face, the team leader sets up a web meeting to solicit input from participants, identify the high priority items and construct a focused agenda with much of the initial information exchange completed. During the on-site meeting time is spent making critical decisions and cementing agreement on appropriate actions.

	A survey tool for easy data gathering
	An electronic meeting room with customizable agenda with topic links
	A brainstorming tool for rapid attributed or anonymous idea generation
	A categorizing tool for organizing and synthesizing ideas
	A sophisticated voting tool for prioritizing, decision making and consensus building
	An action planning tool for documenting next steps and responsibilities
	Report and export tools for documentation, communication and further collaboration

Imagine supporting a project using FacilitatePro . You are responsible for a project with a dispersed work team. Despite time and budget constraints your team needs to be working closely together. To supplement your weekly status meeting, you set up an ongoing web meeting to share daily updates. At their schedules permit, each team member logs onto the meeting over the web and enters his or her contribution to this week’s critical topics. Team members build on information already there, attach supporting files and request information from their colleagues. You’ve got the information you need to manage your project, and your work team can focus on delivering results without overload from meetings, conference calls or emails.

In four hours, the group has collaborated to make key decisions without leaving their offices. The cost and time savings from eliminating travel have more than offset the cost of the technology – in a single meeting.

View an example of an asynchronous meeting agenda