User guide
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CHAPTER 1
Attending a Breeze Meeting
A Macromedia Breeze meeting is an online event at a scheduled time and date, but it is also a
meeting room with various display panels (pods) and components. A meeting room can have
various layouts for different meeting needs—for example, one layout for presenting and another
layout for collaborating. Your ability to view and use the pods, layouts, and components depends
on your role in the meeting. Once you understand the structure of a meeting room and attendee
roles, you will be ready to log in.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
• “About a Breeze meeting” on page 9
• “About meeting roles and permissions” on page 10
• “Inside a Breeze meeting room” on page 10
• “Meeting room pods” on page 12
• “Entering a meeting room” on page 16
About a Breeze meeting
Using Macromedia Breeze Meeting, you can enter and participate in a live online meeting. You
and other meeting attendees can join a meeting from any where in the world, as long as you have
a browser, Macromedia Flash Player plug-in, and an Internet connection. A meeting can have as
few as two or as many as several hundred attendees.
A meeting room is an online application that you enter at a specific URL. Once in a meeting, you
can see and hear various types of media, such as a live video broadcast of the presenter, a
Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, or a video. In real time, presenters can demonstrate software
on the computer or use a whiteboard to draw or annotate images or text. Participants can receive
enhanced rights to broadcast their own videos, to present slides from their computers, and take
part in other meeting activities.
A meeting occurs during a specific time, and then it is over. A Breeze meeting room exists before a
meeting and continues to exist after the meeting. A meeting can be used over and over for the
same weekly meeting. The host can leave the meeting room open or closed between scheduled
meetings. If a meeting room is open between meetings, you can enter the room at any time to
view content.