To: Tom Kehner Executive Director
The Difference tom.kehner@thedifferenceconsulting.com www.thedifferenceconsulting.com

CC: Amy

Dear Tom:

Last week I started a WikiWeb to help answer the questions you posted on TWC. I'm working with Amy Lenzo, Admin of TWC. I've made some progress in adding content and structuring World Cyber Cafe. I need help from co-agitators to really get this wiki populated with some really good research, ideas and proposals. Then we need to refine the ideas and finally decide on the social elements and the technie elements.

I'm in both camps with ideas, but since this is a consensus organization, we need "consenters". Would you be so kind as to accept this invitation, roam around WCC, get to know how to operate within the Wiki format, make some edits, add a page, insert some hyperlinks and then send me an email of your thoughts. OK?
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com.

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Evaluation: MS Live Meeting seems to have all of the features we would need for a Virtual Cafe among a large number of participants. We could start out retail at $15 each and then when the lust for multi-party, multi-point communication grows, THC could establish a separate membership level which allows the Virtual Meeting Members to meet anytime they want with unlimited number of participants. The economics would have to be resolved ahead of time: I would favor a small flat, annual fee, such as $25.00 just to join and learn about the conference software (trial, demo) and then pay a per person per meeting fee, such as two to ten dollars an hour, depending on the kind of services being offered. These fees would be paid in advance via debit card, before the meeting starts. This way TWC would cover expenses and earn some net profit for its organizational needs.

GOTOMEETING

See: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/default/help/g2w/pdf/GoToWebinar_User_Guide.pdf?Portal=www2.gotowebinar.comP

I tried to view the demo. They insisted on getting my credit card information just to view of demo. Really a dumb, stupid, arrogant move by Citrix. They hope to scam a few folks who forget to cancel the account until they have been billed for the next month of paid service. No thanks.

Further, the written explanations were confusing and written by a left-brain dominant author for whom pictures were irrelevant. There is no price listing on the website that I could find. I would not recommend GoToMeeting.

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