Marratech Conferenceware: a great way to communicate, collaborate, interact and share resources!
The Ultralab (1990-2006) team is distributed nationwide, with a cluster of Ultranauts in Chelmsford.
Ultralab (1990-2006) prides itself in its strong online community. Our long established internal systems allow our team to see the status and current news information associated to every project we are running. Our crossprojectnation means we are able to share ideas between ourselves, and support and encourage where needed. One of the reasons our projects are so successful, the other major reason is the sheer knowledge and talent of our people, who’s backgrounds really are pretty special.
Our monthly team meetings bring our entire team together, to discuss our status, and raise and talk through projects, and future proposals.
Mark and Mark do a fantastic job to enable and include our entire team, no-matter where they are, in the meetings.
Marratech, a company Mark has been talking with for some time have an excellent solution which will enable our entire team to speak verbally during the meetings. Until now, remote workers have only been able to communicate through instant message, although they have full visual and sound from the meeting at their disposal.
It will be interesting to see how this software will cope with more testing, especially with more people, but until now, Ian Tindal (live from Cornwall), Mark and myself are impressed with our attempts at using it today.
Marratech will allow:
- Live visual images of remote Ultranauts
- Live audio, to and from remote Ultranauts
- Shared note-board, enabling all Ultranauts to draw, share pictures, discuss documents live
- Meetings to be recorded, and played back
- Any user to take control and bring visual content to any users attention
- Text chat transcript
mattheweaves
Peter Parnes
Submitted by visitor on Tue, 03/08/2005 – 09:18.
Hi
Glad that you like Marratech. If you have any questions regarding the product feel free to contact Marratech via the support forum at http://www.marratech.com/forum/
/Peter Parnes
Chief Scientist and Founder Marratech
mattheweaves
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Submitted by Matthew Eaves on Thu, 02/24/2005 – 14:50.
Thanks to Gina and James for the comments.
Today at 3pm Mark will be having another go testing, you are welcome to join us.
Contact Mark at Ultralab (1990-2006) for details.
mattheweaves
Joe
Submitted by visitor on Tue, 03/08/2005 – 18:08.
Marratech has a moderators guide for larger meetings with some helpful tips and tricks for holding meetings with upwards of a dozen users. If it’s not posted to the Marratech web site I’ll try to get it put there. If you’d like a copy, email me at joe.bishop@marratech.com.
mattheweaves
Wow
Submitted by visitor on Thu, 02/24/2005 – 09:52.
From the pics you show, this looks very promising indeed – thanks.
How much bandwidth do you need for this to work?
Could you give us a Strengths and Weakness list from your experience from testing?
James B
mattheweaves
Photos
Submitted by visitor on Thu, 02/24/2005 – 09:25.
I agree I find all the scrolling I have to do to read this page frustrating – but I can cope 🙂
Love Ian’s hat 🙂
Gina (again)
mattheweaves
Alternative to Breeze?
Submitted by visitor on Thu, 02/24/2005 – 09:23.
Hey this is exciting Matt – Pete and I have been working with Ian evaluating Macromedia’s Breeze conferencing software. Ian had a good experience when he took a tutorial from the developers, but when we have used it hosted on the Middlesex uni’s server, I’ve found it slow and frustrating. The audio doesn’t work, the mouse even has a delay! There’s a shared notebook/whiteboard option but it’s so slow and clumsy I find myself losing the will to live….
I’d be keen to try Marratech…
Gina
mattheweaves
Jon Scanlan
Submitted by visitor on Tue, 03/08/2005 – 21:24.
If you’d like to try Marratech, need some help or have any questions drop me a mail at jons@marratech.co.uk.
mattheweaves
Pics
Submitted by visitor on Thu, 02/24/2005 – 00:10.
…are way too big for the page!
Any chance of shrinking them slightly and showing the whole window??