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Ibid Applications

Applications for Ibid fall into two general categories: personal use and group use. Personal use applications are single user applications (i.e., the user works within their own office without additional participants). Group use applications involve using the Ibid whiteboard to support group activities such as brainstorming, presentations, training, teaching, or teleconferencing.  

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Personal Use Applications

Personal use applications typically involve being able to develop your ideas on an erasable whiteboard in your office and then save those ideas to your computer. Ibid provides you with a vehicle by which you can develop your ideas on the whiteboard in your office, then save those ideas in your computer files, email them to associates for their comments, or print hard copies. You can even share your work over the internet or a corporate LAN in real time.

Creativity starts in the head. But how you put your ideas down is often as important as what your ideas are. That?s what makes Ibid so revolutionary. It?s one of the most creative tools out there for your creativity. You get the benefit of the productivity of the whiteboard. Plus the productivity of the PC. It?s a huge idea. No wonder Ibid is the perfect vehicle to communicate what?s in your brain to the rest of the world.

Examples of a few of the personal use applications for ibid include the following: developing a presentation, diagramming a new design concept, creating a project plan, creating a meeting agenda, developing a network diagram, or creating your to do list. The possibilities are endless.

After the ideas are created and saved to your PC, you can email the ideas to others for comments, you can save the content to your PC files for future reference, or you can print copies. You can even create chronological files of all the content that is developed on your Ibid whiteboard, similar to a discussion log.

Once you begin using your personal Ibid PC whiteboard you will find it a valuable tool for conveniently saving all types of information to your computer files. The file system allows whiteboard images to be reordered, deleted or moved from one Ibid file to another. These images can be logically grouped according to individual preference. Store them for later review. Incorporate them into documents or presentations. E-mail them. Publish them. Ibid fully utilizes what you can do with your PC.

Group Applications

Brainstorming
When you can print what you write on the whiteboard, you?ve essentially eliminated the need to take notes. As a result, your audience can now pay more attention. Ibid provides this capability. And everyone can leave the meeting with a complete record of everything that was written on the whiteboard via printed copies or e-mail.

Presentations
Ibid can be used as an input device for an LCD projector. Everything that you write on the Ibid PC Whiteboard can be projected onto a large screen using an LCD projector. This is valuable if the whiteboard is being used to address large audiences that might not otherwise be able to satisfactorily view the presentation.

Professional series whiteboard have touchscreen capabilities allowing users to control their PC entirely from the whiteboard. Project you desktop onto the whiteboard and your finger now acts as a mouse. Annotate the screen at anytime in any application to make a point and the software automatically saves the annotated image for later viewing and distribution.

Teaching
- In-the classroom - Ibid PC whiteboards provide a vehicle that enables teachers to leverage PC technology in their classrooms. Whether it is by using Ibid with an LCD projector to annotate a computer based presentation, or by enabling the entire class to obtain the notes exactly as they are created.

- Distance Learning - Include remote participants in your class room using Ibid and your favorite Internet conferencing software. Everything that you write on your Ibid PC Whiteboard will be displayed on the remote participants? PC in real-time. Whether solving problems or providing tutorials, Ibid is an indispensable part of every distance learning solution.

Training
- On-site training - Ibid supports on-site training through it's ability to save and disseminate meeting discussion notes. It can also facilitate more effective LCD presentations by serving as a touch sensitive projector screen from which the computer application can be controlled and the projected image annotated.

- Tele-training - Include remote participants in your training session using Ibid and your favorite Internet conferencing software. Everything that you write on your Ibid PC Whiteboard will be displayed on the remote participants? PC in real-time.

Teleconferencing
Teamwork. It?s the very pulse of the business world. It?s how things get done. And now collaboration has never been easier. Because now you don?t have to be in the same room to work together. With Ibid, you can be anywhere. You can E-mail your work in progress. And if you use data collaboration or Internet conferencing tools like Microsoft's NetMeeting?, you can teleconference with your remote colleagues over the Internet or your corporate LAN in real-time. To communicate your ideas quicker. To get instant feedback. To eliminate downtime. To be more productive, more pro-active and more professional. Collaboration. It?s built into every Ibid PC Whiteboard.

Summary
Whether you?re at the whiteboard, or at your PC after an Ibid session, you?ve got a powerful tool to help communicate and convince your colleagues of your ideas.


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