Persony Presenter Guide

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PERSONY PRESENTER GUIDE

March 2008

1. Set And Test Your Password.................................................................................. 2

2. Download The Persony Presenter Software (5 - 10 minutes)................................. 43. Test The Persony Presenter Software (5 minutes)................................................. 6

4. Join The Persony Presenters Email List (2 minutes) ............................................. 95. Schedule A Meeting.............................................................................................. 10

6. Invite Participants ................................................................................................. 12

7. Prepare For Your Meeting – Powerpoint.............................................................. 168. Start Your Meeting ............................................................................................... 18

9. Share Your PowerPoint Presentation.................................................................... 20

10. Share Your Screen With Meeting Attendees (PC users) .................................... 23

11. Ending Your Meeting ......................................................................................... 26



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1. Set And Test Your Password

1. Go to: http://persony.uua.org.

2. Click "Sign In" in the upper right corner of the web page.

3. On the "Member Sign In" page, enter the email address you registered for

persony. Enter your temporary password which is "changeme" without the quotes.

Click on "Sign In".

4. Click on the "My Account" tab, and select "Password" from the menu.





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2. Download The Persony Presenter Software (5 - 10 minutes)

1. On the "My Meetings" tab, click on "Download Presenter Software".



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2. On the "Download" page, follow the instructions for your Windows or Mac OS X

install.a. Windows users: open or run the install file directly from your download

manager if possible, or save the install file on your desktop and then double

click it.

b.

Mac users: select the Vines option and save the Vines software in yourApplications folder. You must start the Vines server each time before starting

a Persony meeting.

3. Wait for the install to complete and close any download or install windows.



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3. Test The Persony Presenter Software (5 minutes)

1. Click on the "My Meetings" tab. All of your meetings are listed under "Today'sMeetings" and there should be only one, titled "My Meeting". Click on "Start

Meeting" to the far right.

2. A picture of a conference room will appear and the lights will go on.





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8. End the test meeting by clicking the red "Stop" sign in the toolbar at the top of the

conference room.



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4. Join The Persony Presenters Email List (2 minutes)

1. Go to http://lists.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/Persony2. Complete the simple form, and click "Subscribe".

3. Post your questions, observations, etc. by emailing to [email protected].



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5. Schedule A Meeting

1. Go to My Meetings > Meetings. Click on Add a Meeting.



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2. Complete the Add a Meeting form.

a. Meeting Title: Enter a title that will be meaningful to the people you invite.b. Date / Time: If the meeting is to be scheduled, select “Scheduled” and enter

the date, time, and duration.

c. Description: Enter an optional description.

d.

Login: Indicate whether participants will enter the meeting by entering onlytheir name, or their name and a password, or whether they have to pre-

register.e. Telephone: Enter the telephone number and access code of your conference

call service. If you have none, consider registering at

http://freeconferencecall.com.f. Publish: Set “Publish” to Private.

3. Click submit.



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6. Invite Participants

1. Go to My Meetings > Meetings. Find your new meeting in the list and click Invite.



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2. An email form will open with the information about your meeting. You can let

Persony send email to your attendees, or you can use your own email client (e.g.Outlook). If you use your own email (recommended), you’ll have a record of the

invitation and who you invited. To do this, click Open My Email at the bottom of the

page.



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3. Enter the email addresses of the invitees into your email. Note that the subject and

body of the email message already contain the details you entered on the Meetingform. Add your own remarks as well. see below to learn how attendees can

automatically add the meeting information to their Outlook calendar.



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4. Attendees can add the meeting to their Outlook calendar by clicking on the meeting

link in the email they receive, and then on “Download iCalendar”.



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7. Prepare For Your Meeting – Powerpoint

1. Prepare and save your PowerPoint presentation. Don’t use animations.2. Log in to your Persony account.

3. Go to the My Library page.4. In the browser pane on the left, click My Library > Presentations.5. Click the Add button.

6. Click the Browse button.

7. In the Select File window, browse to your presentation and click Open.



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8. Persony will convert each slide to a jpg (image) file and store it in your Private

Library. This may take several minutes.



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8. Start Your Meeting

1. A few minutes before the meeting is to start, open your conference bridge by dialingthe bridge phone number and entering your host code.

2. using your browser, log in to your Persony account.3. Go to My Meetings > Meetings and find your meeting. Click Start Meeting.

4. When an attendee joins the meeting, their name will appear in the Attendees list on

the right.



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5. Some people may join the conference call and won’t remember how to join the online

meeting. Tell them to go to persony.uua.org in their web browser, enter the MeetingID number (see below) into the “Join A Meeting” box in the upper right corner of the

web page, and click the Join button.

The meeting ID number can be found in the Information section of the conference room:

6. When everyone is present, explain the use of the message box in the lower right, and

how to raise and lower their virtual hand in the upper left.



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9. Share Your PowerPoint Presentation

1. From the conference room, click the Share Library Content tool.

2. Select My Library and your presentation.

3. The conference room will be replaced with your first slide.



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4. On the zoom level control, select Auto Size. Select the right and left arrow keys to

advance through the show. You can annotate a slide using any of the tools from thetoolbar on the left.

5. You can invite an attendee to draw on a slide by selecting their name from the

Attendee list and clicking the Allow Drawing tool at the bottom of the list. Be sure to

remove that permission when done by clicking the Allow Drawing tool a second time.



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6. When done, click the Close button to return to the conference room.



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10. Share Your Screen With Meeting Attendees (PC users)

1. From the conference room, click the Share Screen tool.

2. Click the Choose Sharing Window tool in the sharing toolbar. Select the region or

application to be shared.



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3. The application you select will be displayed and the sharing window border will be

drawn around it. If you move or resize the application window, the sharing borderwill adjust after a few moments. Meeting attendees can see whatever is displayed

within the red sharing window border. If you make changes within the border, they

will appear on attendees’ screens.

4. Pause sharing by clicking the Pause Sharing tool.





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Persony Presenter Guide