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Overview
With MightyMeeting, you can manage a private library of presentations directly from your computer, iPod Touch, or iPhone. MightyMeeting supports presentations in Microsoft Office or PDF formats.
Presentations can be uploaded online or forwarded to MightyMeeting via email. They are automatically indexed by a powerful search engine. They can be tagged with keywords for quick retrieval.
With MightyMeeting you can start or join web meetings directly from your computer or smart phone. Starting a web meeting is as easy as finding the right presentation and clicking the “Meet Now Online” button. Meeting invitations can be sent out via email or SMS. Meeting attendees can follow the presentation in real-time and exchange instant messages.
MightyMeeting design ensures that web meetings can be held over 3G or Wi-Fi wireless connection. With MightyMeeting you can be on a voice call and in a web meeting simultaneously. This enables you to make your case and deliver a powerful presentation virtually anytime and anyplace.
MightyMeeting presentations can be private or public. Private presentations are only visible to you. They can be sent via email or shared temporarily in online meetings. Public presentations can be viewed by anyone. They can be posted as blog entries or shared via Facebook or Twitter.
Managing Your User Profile
Creating a New Account
You must register before you can begin using the system. The registration form requires the bare minimum of information: email and password. You must use a real email address in order to activate the account. We are committed to protecting your privacy and do not share your email address with others.
Once you submit the registration form, MightyMeeting will send you an email message with a link that can be used to activate the new account. It may take a few minutes before the email message arrives. If for some reason you do not receive it, you can resubmit the registration form, and the message will be resent. You may also want to add 'noreply@mightymeeting.net' to the list of safe senders in your spam filtering system.
Recovering Lost Password
If you forget your password, you can request a new one using the password recovery form. Enter the email address that you used to register with MightyMeeting and click "Submit". The system will send you an email message with a new password. You can change this password in the profile section of the application after you login.
Editing Profile Information
You can edit your profile information in the profile section of the application. Click the "Edit Profile" button in the upper left corner of the screen. In the form that opens you can change the display name associated with your profile, the email address, and a brief paragraph describing you to other users. Remember that if you change the email address, you must use this new address when you log into MightyMeeting.
Changing MightyMeeting Password
You can change your MightyMeeting password in the profile section of the application. Click on the button that says "MM Password". Enter your old (current) password in the top field. Next, enter your new password twice in the two fields that follow. Click "Save" to save the new password.
Connecting to Facebook
A presentation uploaded to MightyMeeting can be posted on your Facebook wall. Other Facebook users will be able to view this presentation and submit comments.
Before you can publish a presentation to Facebook, you must connect your MightyMeeting user account to your Facebook user account. You can do this by clicking on the "Facebook Connect" button located in the profile section of the application. This will launch a pop-up window that will walk you through the steps required to connect the accounts.
Your Facebook username and password are never exposed to the MightyMeeting application. You can also disconnect the accounts later, should you so desire.
Connecting to Twitter
You can use MightyMeeting to selectively share your presentations with the Twitter community. Before you can do this, you must connect your MightyMeeting user account to your Twitter user account.
To connect the accounts, navigate to the profile section of the application and click on the Twitter Connect button. This will take you to the Twitter web site, where you can login and then grant permission to MightyMeeting to post tweets to your update stream.
Your Twitter username and password are never exposed to the MightyMeeting application. You can also disconnect the accounts later, should you so desire.
Managing AND SHARING Presentations
Uploading Presentations
When using MightyMeeting on a computer, you can upload a new presentation in the documents section of the application. The "Upload" button appears in upper left corner of the screen. Click on this button and in the form that appears enter the following information:
- The path to the file you are uploading. Use the "Browse" button to locate the file on your local disk. You can upload presentations in PPT, PPTX, or PDF formats.
- The title for the presentation. This title will appear in the MightyMeeting interface and all other web sites where you may later publish this presentation.
- The list of keywords describing the presentation. Each word is taken as a separate keyword. You can use "_" or "-" symbols to create multi-word keywords.
Click "Upload" to begin the upload process. Depending on the size of the presentation and the speed of your Internet connection, it may take a few minutes before the presentation is fully uploaded.
It may take a few additional minutes for MightyMeeting to fully process and index the presentation. While the system is working, you will see the activity icon next to the presentation title in the list of presentations.
You may need to hit the "Refresh" button in your browser a couple of times before you can see the final icon that was generated for the presentation.
Submitting Presentations via Email
Every MightyMeeting account is given a unique email address that can be used to send presentations to MightyMeeting. This address appears at the top of the page in the documents section of the application. You can also see it in the profile section.
Presentations sent to your MightyMeeting address are automatically processed by the system and added to your presentation library. You may want to add this address to your address book. Then next time when you receive a presentation from someone, you can immediately forward it to MightyMeeting.
Note that when sending presentations to MightyMeeting, the MightyMeeting email address must appear in the To or Cc field of the email message. The Bcc field cannot be processed by the application.
The subject field of the email message can be used to submit keywords describing your presentation. Every word in the subject field is treated as a separate keyword.
Browsing and Viewing Presentations
The list of presentations in your presentation library can be viewed in the documents section of the application. This list can be broken down into several pages. Use the buttons at the bottom of each page to go to the next or previous page.
You can click on or touch a presentation thumbnail in the list. This takes you to the presentation detail view. This view shows thumbnails of the individual slides in the presentation. Click on a slide thumbnail to see a larger slide image. You can then use the "Next" and "Prev" buttons in the toolbar to navigate through slides in the presentation.
At any point you can push the "Back" button to go to the previous page in the navigation.
Searching
MightyMeeting uses a sophisticated search engine to index slides uploaded into the system. You can further assist this indexing by submitting a list of keywords together with your presentation. These keywords can also be used as tags for organizing presentations and grouping them into categories.
You can search for presentations in the search section of the application interface. The search box is located in the toolbar. There is no search button. Enter your search keywords and simply hit "Enter". You will be taken to the list of presentations matching your criteria.
The search section also displays a list of tags that you entered together with you presentations and a count of slides matching each of the tags. You can click on a tag in order to see the list of matching presentations.
Editing Presentation Attributes
You can change the title of a presentation and the list of keywords describing it. Click on a presentation in the list and then push the "Edit" button located in the toolbar. This will open a form where you can change attributes of the presentation. Push "Save" in order to save your changes.
Deleting a Presentation
The same form that is used to edit a presentation can also be used to permanently delete a presentation. Push the "Delete" button in the toolbar.
Once a presentation is deleted, it cannot be restored. If you published the presentation on other sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, it will no longer be available to visitors of those sites.
Sharing a Presentation
MightyMeeting presentations can be public or private. Private presentations are only available to you. They can be sent via email or shared temporarily in online meetings. Public presentations are visible to the entire world. They can be shared in blogs or social networks.
To change a presentation to public or private, open the presentation detail view and then push the "Share" button located in the toolbar. This will open the view shown below.
If the presentation is private, you can make it public by pushing the "Make It Public" button. Similarly, to make a public presentation private, push the "Make It Private" button.
Note that if you make a public presentation private, it will no longer be available to visitors of other sites where you might have shared it. By default all newly submitted presentations are private.
Sending a Presentation via Email
To send a presentation via email, switch to the "Share" view as explained above and then push the "Send via Email" button. In the form that opens, enter the email address of the recipient and the subject of the message. Multiple email addresses can be entered if separated by commas.
Posting a Presentation to Facebook
A public presentation can be posted to your Facebook news feed. The entry in the feed will contain the presentation thumbnail and a link that can be used to view the presentation and submit comments.
You must connect your MightyMeeting account to your Facebook account as described in the "Managing Your User Profile" section of this document. Once the accounts are connected, you can navigate to the "Share" view of the presentation and click the "Post to Facebook" button. In the form that opens, enter a note that will accompany your post. Then push the "Post It" button in the toolbar.
The first time you do this, you may see a Facebook pop-up window asking you to grant a publishing permission to MightyMeeting.
Posting a Presentation to Twitter
A public presentation can be posted to your Twitter update stream. It is posted as a status update message with a link to the page that can be used to view the presentation. Other Twitter users can reply to your post or retweet it to their followers.
Click this link to see how the slides are presented to other Twitter users:
Before you can post to Twitter, you must connect your MightyMeeting user account to your Twitter user account. You can do this as described in the "Managing Your User Profile" section of this document. Once the accounts are connected, you can navigate to the "Share" view of the presentation and click the "Post to Twitter" button. In the form that opens, enter the status update that will accompany the presentation. Then push the "Post It" button in the toolbar.
Adding Presentation to a Blog Post
A public MightyMeeting presentation can be added to a blog post. You can see examples of this in several posts on the MightyMeeting Blog.
In order to get the embed code for a presentation, you must be using MightyMeeting from a browser running on a computer, not a mobile phone. Navigate to the "Share" view of a presentation and push the button that says "Embed in HTML". In the form that opens, click on the single text field that contains the embed code. Copy this code and paste into your blog entry.
When pasting the embed code, make sure that you are pasting it into the HTML source code view of the blog entry, not the WYSIWYG view. Most blogging platforms let you edit HTML code directly.
Managing Online Meetings
With MightyMeeting you can share slides remotely with your audience. You can be using a desktop computer or a smart phone. The same is true of your audience. They can be using a computer or a smart phone, such as iPhone or an Android phone.
Starting a Meeting
Meetings are started on-demand when needed. It is not yet possible to schedule a meeting in advance.
To start a new meeting, navigate to the "Share" view of the presentation that you would like to discuss in the meeting and push the "Meet Now" button.
This will open a new window that looks as shown below:
You can navigate between the slides in the presentation by pressing the "Prev" and "Next" buttons. The slide change is immediately broadcast to all meeting participants. It may take a few seconds for the message to propagate to everyone, especially if some of the participants are on a slower 3G network.
Inviting Participants
The "People" tab of the meeting interface presents the list of people currently in the meeting. You can invite new participants by clicking on the "Invite" button that appears in this view. This opens the meeting invitation form.
An invitation can be sent to an email address. It can also be sent to an iPhone or an Android phone as an SMS message. It is possible to enter several email addresses or mobile phone numbers in the form, in which case they must be separated by commas.
Note: SMS distribution is at the moment limited only to the U.S. mobile phone numbers.
it may take a few minutes for the invitation messages to reach all the participants. If you are on a mobile network, you may lose your connection to MightyMeeting, e.g. because you are driving through tunnel. If this happens, feel free to refresh the web page using the browser's "Refresh" button. This will restore the connection. The current meeting state is maintained on the server and can be refreshed at will.
Joining a Meeting
A meeting invitation message, email or SMS, contains a link with the URL address for the meeting. Click on this link to join the meeting. This will launch a new browser window.
If you are an existing MightyMeeting user and have previously logged into MightyMeeting from this device, you will be taken directly to the meeting. If you are a new user, you will be prompted to enter a name that will be displayed to other meeting participants.
As a meeting participant you can view slides shown by the presenter. You can also post instant messages.
Posting Chat Messages
The "Chat" tab of the meeting interface can be used to post instant messages. These messages are broadcast to all meeting participants. An instant message can be used to ask a question or to make an announcement.
To post a message, enter the message into the text field that appears in the toolbar and hit enter or "Go". The message is sent to the server. It appears in the list of messages only after the server responds with a confirmation.
Leaving a Meeting
To leave the meeting push the "Leave" button that appears in the toolbar of the "Slides" tab. This will broadcast the fact that you are leaving to all meeting participants. If you are the meeting organizer, this will also end the meeting.
