This YawnBuster whitepaper describes the compatibility of YawnBuster group activities and YawnBuster Connect with various online meeting tools such as Citrix GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect to name a few.

2. TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………………2
YAWNBUSTER AND YAWNBUSTER CONNECT……………………………………………………..3
3 STEPS FOR YAWNBUSTER CONNECT……………………………………………………………….4
USING YAWNBUSTER AND YAWNBUSTER CONNECT WITH VARIOUS ONLINE
MEETING TOOLS…………….……………………………………………………………………………………7
CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………………………………….8
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3. INTRODUCTION
In this era of technology advancement, online meetings are increasingly becoming the
mainstay in many organizations. With the enhancements in technology, the whole
phase has become web-based introducing the buzz word, ‘Web Conferencing’ or
‘Online Meeting’.
Most web conferencing tools today provide chat and poll options. However, in online
meetings, to make sure the audience is involved throughout the presentation it
becomes necessary to include more advanced activities so that the session could get
more interactive. Inclusion of various group activities such as some quiz, brainstorm,
ice breakers etc… would provide a unique and different way of involving the audience
and would also assure that the audience is with the presenter at any given point of
time. This is where YawnBuster® helps with its wide range of group activities.
Also, using YawnBuster® Connect with such activities in large meetings helps the
presenter to focus on the content of the presentation. YawnBuster® Connect collects
information from the audience and collates them and presents it in the slide for others
to view.
Online meeting tools have usually two mode of sharing: Screen and document. Screen
sharing refers to sharing of presenter’s screen to the audience. Document sharing
implies on uploading a document to be showcased in the session. The document
shared could also be used by audience even when they are offline. Audience gets a
copy of the document to view and hence presenter need not share his/her screen to
show the presentation to the audience.
This document explains the various aspects of YawnBuster® and YawnBuster® Connect
and also it’s working in online meetings and the two modes of sharing mentioned
above.
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4. YAWNBUSTER® AND YAWNBUSTER® CONNECT
YawnBuster® brings alive the PowerPoint slides with Group Activities such as audience
polls, games, group exercises and competitions. YawnBuster® software helps add
group activities to your PowerPoint presentations. Once YawnBuster is installed, it
appears as a menu inside PowerPoint. While preparing a slide, one can simply select
this menu to add a group activity to the slide.
Image 1: YawnBuster® Features
YawnBuster® Connect:
YawnBuster® Connect is the next generation of Audience Response System (ARS). It
redefines interaction levels in presentation sessions. This lets presenters and speakers
connect, collect, view and share audience responses in real time without the need for
any traditional responders such as clickers, slammers or buzzers.
Basically, an audience response system allows groups of people to vote for an option
by answering a question.
YawnBuster® Connect is a free of hardware, web-based audience response system
which works for both online meetings and webinars as well as in-person seminars and
lectures. Attendees need just a mobile device or a laptop to become an active part of
the session. The audience can interact with the YawnBuster® Group Activities
embedded in presentation by simply visiting a URL on their mobile phone or laptop’s
web browser.
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5. 3 STEPS FOR YAWNBUSTER® CONNECT
Image 2: Steps for YawnBuster® Connect
YawnBuster® Connect truly connects presenters to their audiences like never before.
Step 1:
Presenter selects and embeds YawnBuster® group activity into a PowerPoint slide.
Image 3: YawnBuster® Embedment
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6. Step 2:
Presenter connects through YawnBuster® Connect and share the URL with the
audience.
Image 4: YawnBuster® Connect usage
Step 3:
Audiences visits URL and responds using mobile devices, laptops and computers
Image 5: Audience’s Screen
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7. USING YAWNBUSTER® AND YAWNBUSTER® CONNECT
WITH VARIOUS ONLINE MEETING TOOLS
This table explains the best modes for using YawnBuster® and YawnBuster® Connect
with all the major online meeting tools on the basis of screen sharing and document
sharing. The following table illustrates the use of YawnBuster ® with these tools in
these two modes of their operation.
Image 6: Best mode of using YawnBuster® and YawnBuster® Connect with various
web-conferencing tools
As the above table indicates,
YawnBuster® and YawnBuster® Connect are useful only if the presenter uses them in
screen sharing mode. YawnBuster would not be suitable for meetings which are
conducted in document sharing mode.
As explained earlier, in document sharing mode every person in the audience gets his
or her own copy of the presentation. YawnBuster® and YawnBuster® Connect is about
collecting information from the audience and then collating and presenting it in the
form of graphs, charts and other interactive mediums in real time. It comes as an add-
in to PowerPoint software, and hence, works on presenter’s machine where it helps the
presenter collate and share information with the audience via screen-sharing.
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8. CONCLUSION
YawnBuster® and YawnBuster® Connect have changed the way online meetings are
conducted and made more engaging. They bring in a level and type of audience
interactions that is unparalleled in the industry. The most unique feature of
YawnBuster® Connect is that there is absolutely no hardware or software required for
the audience to use it. It simply works off of the audience member’s web browser, be
it on the mobile phone, tablet or a laptop. In the scenario of online meetings, the best
usage of YawnBuster® and YawnBuster® Connect is under the screen sharing mode
option.
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