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The Kansas City Zoo comes to John Knox Village through LifeSize Connections

The Kansas City Zoo comes to John Knox Village through LifeSize Connections

Posted on 10 January 2012

What do you do when seniors can’t come to the Zoo? You bring the Zoo to the seniors, of course! This past month, the Kansas City Zoo visited with seniors at John Knox Villiage retirement facility via videoconferencing in a program arranged by Connected4Learning and Kaleidoscope Videoconferencing . Participants at the Village were asked to provide their [...]

How does LifeSize Connections compare with Blue Jeans and other cloud-based services?

How does LifeSize Connections compare with Blue Jeans and other cloud-based services?

Posted on 30 December 2011

Here at Kaleidoscope, we use LifeSize Connections on a daily, if not hourly, basis. And we have been encouraging our customers to test, try and implement Connections. One question that keeps on cropping up when we first mention Connections to folks is “How does it compare to Blue Jeans?” or “Is the same as [insert [...]

Tech Tip: Before you place an Endpoint on LifeSize Connections, clear Transit Fields.

Tech Tip: Before you place an Endpoint on LifeSize Connections, clear Transit Fields.

Posted on 28 December 2011

As we’ve said before, LifeSize Connections is a great product and works well in lots of applications. One of the reasons that it is so popular with our clients is that it will traverse firewalls without issue. That is because the service includes a “built in” version of the LifeSize Transit product. However, this can [...]

Q&A on the topic of Mobile Video Communications with LifeSize

Q&A on the topic of Mobile Video Communications with LifeSize

Posted on 28 December 2011

Hack: How to allow LifeSize Connection Guests to Call your LifeSize Connection Endpoints

Hack: How to allow LifeSize Connection Guests to Call your LifeSize Connection Endpoints

Posted on 24 December 2011

This is not really supported or supposed to happen, but there is a way to get Guest Accounts on Connections to be able to call Registered Endpoints. There is no way for a guest to “Add Contact” for the endpoint directly, but you can get around it as follows: Invite the guest via the Connection [...]

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