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Real Time Collaboration between Land Surveyors is Here!
By visiting this "room" on Vyew, you can share files, collaborate on projects and drawings and get your work done, together-in real time.
What is Vyew?
Do you use Google Chrome Browser? If so, Vyew is a free web app add-on that works in your browser where groups can create "rooms" like the one I have created and linked above. That "room" is exclusively for land surveyors and it goes way beyond chat...you can share or create anything and collaborate in real time. Surveyors can even make video conference calls in this room! Add it by going here and click install (while you are in Chrome Browser). It connects directly with your Gmail account and you can get going in less than 10 seconds.
Like I said....Beyond Web Conferencing:Vyew is a tool that allows you to meet and share information both in real-time and continuously. Upload images, files, videos and more into Vyew, and Vyew will store the information in one Room that anyone can access and contribute to at anytime.
- Easy to use, no installation necessary
- Both conferencing features and continuous collaboration features
- All information stored in one place for tracking progress and anytime access
- Great for Business, Educational, and Personal uses
Benefits
* Work and collect content and conversations continuously around a specific objective
* Meet and have discussions in real-time and at anytime
* Import and integrate any type of digital content
* Track and filter all conversations and input over the course of an activity
* Runs on all browsers and platformsā¦without any installation of client software
* Duplicate content and track usage and rights management
* Integrate with other tools and build plugins with our API.
Features
* Broad File Type Support
- Office documents (.doc, ppt, xls, etc)
- Images (jpg, png, gif, etc)
- Flash files (SWF)
- MP3 and FLV files
- YouTube Videos (link and play, within Vyew)
* Contextual commenting and discussions with summary view
* Voicemail notes
* Searching and filtering tools to track input and discussions
* Useful Plug-ins (a number of functions including graphing calculator, quiz and polling, dynamic navigation buttons, equation editors, etc.)
* White-boarding & Drawing Tools
* Real-Time Desktop Sharing
* Built-in Screen Capture tool
* Built-in Voice Over IP (VOIP) (3 simultaneous mics)
* Built-in Webcam Video (5 simultaneous webcam broadcast)
* Free Tele-conferencing
* Chat and private chat
* Integration with Google image search and Youtube.
* Room entrance log and tracking
What Makes Vyew Different Todayās collaboration tools are either in real-time like web conferencing, or continuous, anytime, like wiki or document sharing. Vyew is the only software that combines both real-time conferencing with novel tools dedicated for continuous, anytime collaboration. With Vyew you can work independently over periods of time or in groups in real-time. The content and contextual discussions are collected and always available for tracking and review.
Business Uses: The Collaborative War Room
- Team collaboration no longer limited by distance or time
- Real time conferencing features: Webcam, Voice Over IP, text chat, whiteboard features, and screenshare
- Continuous, anytime collaboration features: Voice and text comments, comment filter and search functions, screen capture and more
- Can upload images, files, YouTube videos and more
- All information is saved in a room so members can view and contribute to the project continuously and at anytime
Educational Uses: The Always-Accessible Virtual Classroom
- Educators and students can work together and separately at any time
- Educators can upload material and teaching instructions for students
- Students can work on projects independently and collaborate as groups
- Use continuous, anytime collaboration features to ask and answer questions
- Use real-time conferencing features for educators and students to meet
- Educational Plugins to use right on the page: Graphing calculator, Equation Editor, and more
Personal Uses: The All-Purpose Collaborative Organizer
- Store all information in one place
- Can collaborate and annotate independently and as a group
- Great as a study tool, presentation tool, for planning and managing events, and much more
Safety and Security: Vyew Enterprise Editions Available
Vyew supports enterprise and corporate users. For those concerned with the security of their content, Vyew offers private detabases located at customer control premises or Vyew appliances (software/hardware package) where Vyew can be installed entirely inside a private datacenter/network. Professional services are available to support customization and integration into existing tools and workflow. Currently, enterprise Vyew is being used by US government agencies such as Dept of Energy, Dept of Defense and other large educational institutions and corporations.
Additional Enterprise Features:
- Administration and reporting
- Hierarchical grouping of users
- Tree directory of users
- Shared rooms and accessible within a group (department) or intra group
- Library rooms for duplication with rights management
- Routing and approval process
- Enterprise API functions
- Security levels compliant to the USAās Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guide (DISA STIG)
- Additional user roles such as Moderators and custom user roles
- Enterprise wide search capabilities
- Access to group knowledge base for instant loading of content and sharing within the enterprise
Background and Vision of Vyew
Vyew envisions a persistent (continuous), virtual war room for teams across the globe. The ultimate goal is that Vyew will be used as a war room even when users are physically present at the same space and at the same time in order to keep the continuity of the discussions in between physical meetings. This is to increase efficiency, track content and conversations accurately and continue to blur the distinction between an on-site and a remote workforce. Vyew supports the continual merging of the physical with the virtual in order to empower the globally distributed knowledge workers with the fluidity of their movements.
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