Posts made by Frances Bell

This is great Tim. I have edited the summary of the Social Lounge to link to the newcomers info at http://moodle.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=1361,
and I can link to this Wiki when you think it's ready (other forums might like to do the same).
I wondered if you had thought of how these Help files complement the resource linked above. One thing that occurred to me is the issue of searching forums that you haven't yet mentioned. It's really difficult to get the tone right to encourage people to search without being offputting (as has already been discussed).
Here is the pricing model one year (approx) down the line.
http://vyew.com/content/Prices

Pricing and Sign-up


STARTER PACKAGES
The Right Technology, The Right Price

FREE PLUS PROFESSIONAL
Advertising in interface Has Ads Ad-Free**
# of Sessions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
VyewBooks Included* 4 10 20
VyewBook Page Limit 50 100 300
Real-time Participants
(Ad-Free/Max)**
NA/20 5/25** 15/45**
SSL Secure Login Yes Yes Yes
Custom Room ID No Optional Optional
Custom Color Themes Limited Limited + Optional Limited + Optional
Custom Ad No No Optional
File Uploads per Month 10 50 100
PRICES
Take advantage of our super-low prices.
Pay Monthly FREE $9.95/mo $19.95/mo
Annually (Save 20%) NA $7.95/mo $15.95/mo
2 Years (Save 30%) NA $6.95/mo $13.95/mo

OPTIONAL ADD-ONS
Customize and add even more power
FREE PLUS PROFESSIONAL
Custom Room ID N/A $10/yr
Custom Color Themes $5/mo
Custom Ad N/A $5/mo (plus $50 set-up fee)
Additional VyewBooks $5/mo for 20 more
Additional Ad-Free Participants $5/mo for 5 more
Additional File Uploads $5/mo for 50 more




*What is a "VyewBook"?
A VyewBook is a collection of pages created and saved together in Vyew for collaborating on during LIVE conferences and asynchronously over time, ANYTIME. VyewBooks give users the ability to easily author new content and collaborate on almost any file, including Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF and image files. You can create and save multiple VyewBooks at a time - saving content by topic, audience or version - and invite specific persons to specific VyewBooks. VyewBooks can be switched on-demand during LIVE conferences or left unlocked for collaborators to review or add to over time, ANYTIME.


**What are ‘Ad-Free Participants’ and ‘Overflow Participants’?
Vyew gives you choice in how to add real-time participant capacity for live conferences. Ad Free participants are the number of participants who will not see advertising at any time. Subscribers start with a number of Ad Free participants included, and can add more as needed. Alternatively, subscribers can choose to use an allotment of FREE Overflow Participants for use whenever extra capacity is needed – but Overflow Participants may see ads.

Example: The PLUS starter package comes with 5 Ad-Free participants who will see no advertising. Then, up to 20 more people can participate for FREE as Overflow Participants who will see ads in their interface. 5 Ad-Free + 20 Overflow = 25 max participants. Or, you can choose to buy more Ad-Free participants as an add-on to your PLUS starter package, up to a max of 25 Ad-Free participants.



Thanks for that disclosure Jagdeep. I think it is a really good idea to make disclosures when we have a connection with software/services we are evaluating or recommending. It might be a good idea to put this disclosure in your profile as it's much more accessible there. Moodle logs reveal the common user behaviour of clicking on a profile whilst reading a post from that person.
I see from your blog post that you are in marketing, so I am hoping that you can answer my question about WiziQ that I couldn't get from the web site. AFAIK, WiziQ is a commercial product that is currently 'free', and is not Open Source. What will be the price model for this service, and when will it be available? For example, will the model be similar to http://www.compued.com.au/conference/rates.htm ? for discovere , or more complex price structures like Elluminate http://www.elluminate.com/buy_now.jsp ?