One of the pleasures of running a business is the unexpected things customers do with your product. Take, for example, old fashioned “reservationless” conferencing. You see, Calliflower requires you to schedule a call, rather than just jump on a bridge any time you want. So, for some time customers have been asking us to provide […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Last night was a late one here. We were rolling out a bunch of new changes to Calliflower that we’ve been saving up for the past few months. You’re really going to love these though! Many of our customers host webinars and teleseminars on Calliflower, and we’ve been working on features for those folks for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Calliflower support will be limited from the afternoon of December 24th until January 3rd. Our offices will be closed for the holiday week, and we’ll be operating on a skeleton staff in order to give our team some well deserved down time with family and friends. During this time, emergency support will be available, but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Early this morning we had a support request from a customer in the UK looking for a Portuguese teleconference dial-in number for a call he was planning later today. Good news! We were able to source and provision a national number for Portugal very quickly. If you have callers who need to reach your meetings […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Recording a conference call is just one of the many value-added features that you get with the Calliflower conferencing service. Judging by the number of inquiries and search requests we get for this feature, it’s popular too! In this short post, I’m going to tell you how to record your conference call with Calliflower, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More...I love browsing through our referrer logs. Nothing gives me greater enthusiasm for what we do at Calliflower than seeing the innovative ways that people are using our service. Two that caught my eye this evening? John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Marketing. Jantsch is a coach, author, workshop leader and marketing guru who has carved out […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It’s the nightmare scenario – a competitor has been secretly listening in to your call, and now they know all the details of your plans. Sound far fetched? Not really. It happens more often than you might think, and it’s one of the very real downsides of a virtual meeting as compared to an in-person […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There are just two days to go until one of the largest sporting events in the world gets underway — the FIFA World Cup, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. In honour of the World Cup we’ve added four South African cities to the Calliflower Network: South Africa Cape Town +27 21 300 2339 Durban […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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We all know that you can save a ton of money and time by holding an online meeting. It just makes sense – get everyone together on the phone and save gas costs, air fare costs, travel time and more. What if you could save a ton of CO2 as well? CO2 emissions, anyway… This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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David Lavienda, writing for Fast Company, has just published an excellent 10-rules blog post. Titled 10 Rules for Effective Conference Calls, it ticks through the top 10 things you shouldn’t do on a conference call. His rules are: Keep statements short and ask for frequent feedback. This is to keep the participants engaged on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Recording a conference call can be tricky, especially if you’re planning to re-purpose that recording later as part of a podcast or a multi-media book. Even although recording a telephone call can never produce the same results as you would get recording a conversation in a studio, it doesn’t mean you can’t bias the outcome […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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For the last few weeks we’ve been busily working away on a wholesale reno / makeover of the Calliflower web presence. Online meetings will never be the same again! We’ve been adding social features, building out a YouTube channel, a Facebook fan page and more, all in the name of providing our customers with more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More...In Exclusive Deal, Samsung Canada Resellers To Offer Multimedia, Social-Network-Style Conferencing Service to Purchasers of Select Netbooks and Laptops OTTAWA, CANADA (March 10, 2010) – iotum announced today that Calliflower, its interactive conferencing and collaboration service, will be promoted through the VAR and system integrator channels of Samsung Canada. Under an exclusive agreement from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More...Calliflower’s Interactive, Collaborative Conference Calls Can Now be Reached Via Skype ID or Web Button MIAMI, Fla. (Jan. 21, 2010) — iotum announced today at IT EXPO an open beta program through which customers can access their highly interactive Calliflower conference calls via Skype. Calliflower, which applies a social-networking-style visual interface to the task of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More...New Software Release Facilitates Seminars, Press Conferences, Classes and More OTTAWA, Sept. 23 2009 — Web meetings innovator iotum today announced powerful new software that simplifies and enriches its Calliflower service for use by current and prospective online event holders and enterprises. The versatile collaboration service now allows users to add and change moderators on-the-fly, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More...iotum today announced the expansion of the international dial-in network for iotum’s Calliflower Premium Conference Calling and Document Sharing service. Now available in 30 countries and over 100 cities in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Ottawa, Canada – June 22, 2009 – Flate-rate conference calling from over 100 cities worldwide is now available […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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