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WebEx ®
WebOffice
Workgroup
FOR
DUMmIES
by Rick Faulk and Maureen Condon
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WebEx ® WebOffice Workgroup For Dummies ®
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About the Authors
Rick Faulk is President of the Small Business Division of
WebEx Communications, Inc. and former President and CEO of
Intranets.com, which was acquired by WebEx in 2005.
Together the combined company provides a full range of
online collaboration solutions for the SMB and Enterprise
markets.
As President and CEO of Intranets.com, Rick was named a
2004 “Best Boss” by FORTUNE Small Business Magazine (FSB)
and Winning Workplaces. Under his leadership, Intranets.com
was selected by both Deloitte and Touche and Inc. Magazine
as one of the fastest growing companies in 2004.
Rick has more than 30 years of distinguished leadership in
high technology and has served as Vice President of Corporate
Marketing at PictureTel, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
and Marketing at Shiva Corporation, and Vice President of
Corporate Marketing at Lotus Development Corporation.
Before that, Rick founded First Software, a software distribu-
tion company, which grew to more than $175 million in rev-
enue in less than four years.
Maureen Condon is Marketing Programs Manager for the
Small Business Division of WebEx Communications, Inc.,
and was Customer Relationship Marketing Manager for
Intranets.com. She has 25 years’ experience in marketing for
Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and technology
companies in the fields of online collaboration services, real-
time database services, IBM DB2 database management tools,
Windows Utilities, Peer-to-Peer technology, PC software, and
fault-tolerant supercomputers. Her bylined articles on tech-
nology and business have been published in more than 30
trade magazines and newspapers, including IBM eServer and
MASS High Tech.
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Publisher’s Acknowledgments
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Acquisitions, Editorial, and
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Special Help
From Wiley: Gabriele McCann
From the Small Business Division
of WebEx Communications, Inc.:
Christine Bataille, Corrine Battle,
Frank Brander, Roberta Burton,
John Carroll, Jeff Cody, Meredith Kench,
Karen Leavitt, Patrick Moran,
Derek Peplau, Greg Shenk
Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies
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Table of Contents
Introduction .......................................................1
About This Book .........................................................................1
Who Should Read This Book .....................................................2
How to Use This Book ................................................................2
Foolish Assumptions ..................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized......................................................3
Part I: WebOffice Workgroup...........................................3
Part II: Real-Time and Asynchronous Collaboration....3
Part III: The Part of Tens ..................................................3
Icons Used in This Book.............................................................4
Where to Go from Here ..............................................................4
Part I: WebOffice Workgroup...............................5
Chapter 1: Working Together Just Got Easier . . . . . . . . . 7
What Is WebOffice? .....................................................................8
Group Calendar .................................................................8
Document Manager ..........................................................9
Database Manager ............................................................9
WebEx Meetings..............................................................10
Task Manager ..................................................................10
Announcements ..............................................................11
Discussion Forums .........................................................11
Opinion Polls ...................................................................12
Contact Directories ........................................................12
Expense Reports .............................................................13
Administration Tools......................................................13
Realizing You’re Never Alone ..................................................13
Chapter 2: Taking Advantage of Hosted
Collaboration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Choosing a Hosted Service ......................................................15
Okay, What’s the Business Value?...........................................17
Financial Services firms .................................................17
Healthcare firms .............................................................17
Marketing and PR agencies ...........................................18
Consulting firms..............................................................18
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