File Transfer

Instantly send files to meeting participants and people in your contact list.

Sametime Connect

• External Communities: If your system administrator allows, you can use Sametime to communicate with people connected to your company's extranet.



• Specific Alerts: Play a sound or display a message when specific people in your contact list become Active.



• Announcements: Send brief, informational instant messages that do not require a response.



• Online Status Icons: There are new icons to represent your online status, including icons for mobile users who access Sametime from cell phones or pagers.



• Logon Preferences for Sametime Connect and AOL Instant Messenger^SM: The Logon Information tab has been removed from Sametime Connect. You can still log on automatically to both Sametime Connect and AOL Instant Messenger.



• Automatic Reconnection: Sametime Connect for browsers can now automatically reconnect to the server when you are disconnected, just like Sametime Connect for the desktop.

Sametime Meeting Room

• Test a Meeting: Now you can attend a test meeting to make sure that you are able to connect to meetings and that your audio/video equipment works properly.



• Whiteboard Files: With Sametime 3.1, the Moderator can add files to the whiteboard at any time during a meeting.



• Broadcast Meetings: Broadcast meeting audience members can now view poll questions, receive Web pages sent by the Moderator, and copy and save Meeting Room chat.



• Interaction Tabs: During broadcast meetings and recorded meetings, the tabs flash briefly to alert participants to new content, such as shared poll responses or chat messages.



• Video Windows: Float the video windows so that you can move them anywhere on your screen.



• 360-degree Camera: Use the TotalView High Res 360-degree video camera from BeHere Technologies to view 360-degree video during a meeting.



• Echo Cancellation: Now you can use microphones that do not include headsets without causing echoes during meetings. The audio preferences allow you to enable echo cancellation.



• Meeting Clock: Monitor the progress of a meeting with two new menu options: View - Elapsed Meeting Time and View - Remaining Meeting Time.

Accessibility

The Meeting Room offers improved accessibility with mnemonics, shortcut keys, and the ability to tab through the Meeting Room controls.

Schedule and attend Sametime meetings from Outlook or Lotus Notes

Schedule and attend Sametime meetings directly from your Outlook^® or IBM Lotus Notes^® e-mail client.

Directory dialog box

When you access your company's Directory, you now see both full and short names.

Terminology

The following terms have changed with this release of Sametime:

• Automatic nicknames are now short names.



• The Connect List is now the contact list.