Discus and Minutes Of Meeting Recorder Software for Windows

4Team for Outlook
$49.95 - 4Team Corporation

Manage your teams and projects in Microsoft Outlook with this easy-to-use workgroup utility without or with a server. Using an Internet connection (dial-up or broadband) or your company's intranet, your team members can create and share their multiple projects' workspaces including a calendar, contacts, documents, tasks, and discussion boards. Define member's access rights, post news, assign tasks, find members' free/busy times and organize meetings, discussions, and teamwork on shared documents, and control and centralize members' activities. You can use this product as an ideal instrument for remote companies and groups or just for sharing Outlook data for personal use. Now all relevant information and documentation can be placed in one location, only accessible by those with permission. Whether there are Web pages, spreadsheets, word processing documents, or any formatted material, it is available round the clock for those who need it. Let team members know their role, their tasks and their schedule. With a team task list, team members have instant access to their contribution to the project. Create a contact lists. Have a single place for team members to access the list of contacts important to your project. As the project develops, the list can be easily updated, so that everyone on the team has the names and contact information of those involved. Administrating does not require any special skills. You team can synchronize data among Outlook 2000/2002/2003 users, running in Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP, and supports Exchange and non-Exchange Profiles. You can also access Outlook data over Internet using 4Team Online Service. The version for Outlook 2000 is available from product website.

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Xtreeme MailXpert Standard Edition
$59 - Xtreeme GmbH

Mail processing software for Windows. Using this application you can create discussion mailing lists and autoresponders, send bulk mails to your customers and more. Message personalization ("Dear John" instead of "Dear Customer"), fast sending engine, built-in SMTP server (no need to use your ISP's), HTML and plain text messages and much more...

Features:

- Three built-in wizards let you create a discussion forum, an auto responder or a news board without hassle by answering a couple of questions.
- Built-in SMTP server.
- Personalize messages to your users (including HTML emails), e.g. "Dear John" instead of "Dear Customer".
- Support for HTML and plain text.
- Customizable HTML and plain-text digests available at a single mouse click.
- Due to the architecture based on message rules, you can easily fine-tune the generated mailing lists to suit your particular needs or create new types of email services from scratch.
- Integrated backup/restore of application's data files.
The application installs and runs on any Windows operating system. All you need is a POP3 account and a machine with access to the Internet. A mere dial-up access will suffice; the application will automatically connect and disconnect whenever necessary.

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GroupMAN
$39.95 - TNL Total Solutions

GroupMAN (Group Manager) functions as a list-server program and makes it easy to create and manage both announcement mailing lists and interactive discussions on your Windows PC. GroupMAN is unique because it's designed to work from your personal electronic- mail address, as opposed to dedicated accounts on a list server. To use GroupMAN, you don't even need a dedicated mail server -- all you need is access to a POP3 server (which comes with virtually every Internet-access account) and some version of Windows. Setting up GroupMAN is as easy as setting up a regular mail program.

-Manage multiple lists from a single POP email account,
-Unlimited Number Of Lists, Each group can maintain a file repository
-Create moderated lists, announcement only lists, and general discussion lists.
-Allow subscribers to have DIGEST ONLY subscriptions
-Create public or private lists.
-Create reminders for project management related lists.
-Allow or Disallow attachments for any given list.
-GroupMAN can run autonomously in the background with no user intervention.
-As with most list-server software commands are requested through standard email. GroupMAN offers many of the same standard list-server subject line commands.
-If the preset subject line commands are not enough you can create your own subject line commands each command you create is capable of carrying out one task or 100 tasks.
-GroupMAN can publish a website containing message archives, file archives, and general statistics.
-Have replies go to either the list itself, original author or the list owner.
- Ban an abusive subscriber from your list preventing them from posting or receiving emails.
-Customizable set of email templates with full support of internal variables.
-Create custom filters to incoming mail to screen out bounced mail, auto-replies spam and attachments with certain extensions.

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Minutes of Meeting Recorder
$39 - XemiComputers Ltd.

This program allows you to take meeting minutes through recording discussion and adding text summaries. The audio recorder built in the program saves each new recording as a separate section and offers real-time OGG audio compression and voice operated recording mode. It also features transcription playback mode, audio editor for making cut-outs, Exact Time Positioner (ETP) bar for quick and precise positioning within a recorded section, mouse wheel support and a selection of keyboard shortcuts with the most important controls available in off-focus mode and accessible while working with other programs. All recordings are 8-bit, mono, with 44KHz as the default sampling rate, but you can also use 22KHz and 11KHz. On the other hand, Minutes of Meeting Recorder provides a number of rich-text fields, enabled with basic formatting options, for creating standard meeting summary consisting of information about subject, date and place, present people, agenda, actions and closure. Both text and audio are saved to the same meeting file that you can easily share using the option for attaching meeting file directly to a new e-mail. Additionally, the program can export meeting notes to RTF file and export/import audio sections to/from WAV, OGG and MP3 files. Meeting file size can go up to 2GB which gives you more than 12 hours of uncompressed recording.

Note: if your microphone can not pick up meeting discussion try to find one designed for conferences.

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Advanced Forum
$49 - SoftCab

Advanced Forum is a small but still powerful CGI application that alows you to implement a discussions on your website. Webmaster can assign HTML header and footer and forum will looks like other website pages. The included password protection gives only authorized persons access to the administration area. You can assign a moderator password and give moderator rights to third party. Also you can password protect access to forum and/or postings to forum. Administrator and moderator have rights to delete posting online. You may create up to 4093 forums. Advanced Forum is a 32-bit native application for Windows 2000/NT/98/95. It is written in C++ for stability, speed, and minimal use of system resources. The Advanced Forum executable is only 30kb. Compare that to the footprint of other multi-megabyte software!

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Software Planner
$35 - Pragmatic Software Co., Inc.

Software Planner is a project collaboration tool that allows you to manage all phases of your software development.

In the initial stages of the project, it allows you to post functional specifications and post project related documents (like meeting minutes, client proposals, etc.). As the project progresses, it allows you to post baseline documents (like detailed designs and project plans). As development proceeds, it allows your project managers and developers to track project deliverables. The developers can update the percentage complete for all items assigned to them. Once testing begins, it allows your testers to create test cases and track software defects.

Developers are automatically alerted, by email, as defects are assigned to them. Team members are alerted as new documents are uploaded or re-uploaded (like project plan updates, etc.). And each person has the ability to control the email alerts they wish to receive.

Use the discussion forums to communicate all issues with clients and project team members. Keep your appointments and to do list on-line and updated at all times.

Try Software Planner FREE for 2 weeks.

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