BlueJeans Events (discontinued) vs. webinar.net

BlueJeans Events is really well-suited for large attendance virtual events and meetings. It was perfect for many of the classes I've taken, as well as hosted, especially during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, where oftentimes in-person classes and interactions have been limited. I love how BlueJeans Events fosters meetings and interactions for large numbers of individuals, despite the fact that in-person meetings of this size have not entirely been feasible during the past year and a half.

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If price is not an object, I would always prefer ON24 rather than webinar.net. However, ON24 is much more expensive. Webinar.net is owned by 6Connex, so the integration of webinar.net in 6Connex is recommended if you need to host a webinar in a 6Connex environment. Support staff is nice, but not knowledgeable enough and takes too long. When a presenter plays a video they get muted automatically, even if the video has no sound! So you then have to either unmute the speaker yourself or having him/her doing it which adds to the stress of the moment. We have had a few cases when email reminders didn't go out, even if programmed and saved correctly.

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• For larger meetings, BlueJeans does a great job of handling active speakers and bringing their video to the forefront while they are speaking. This goes a long way toward bringing all employees to the table in a meeting setting and makes it easy for participants to follow the flow of the meeting, especially in event format meetings with hundreds of participants.
• BlueJeans does a good job of calendar integration making it easy to add/create single or recurring meeting invites with an associated BlueJeans meeting within the invite so all attendees are able to manage and join meetings with ease.

• calendar tool on the registration page
• being able to embed videos on the registration page
• note tool for presenters
• large number of attendees allowed

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• Many people don't yet prefer BlueJeans in our company due to the lack of breakout rooms, PPT uploads, and the requirement to upload videos to play them.
• Using the SSO login doesn't give me the control of manually provisioning accounts. I have to call their customer support line if there is an issue with SAML provisioning.
• The service charges for events in customer hours watched. This racked up a large bill as the company scaled.

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• connectivity for presenters is not easy and not user friendly enough
• you can't just choose CET time, you need to display a city in CET time
• no blurred background
• no virtual background

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BlueJeans Events are certainly useful for inviting a large group of individuals to attend and witness an event, but the platform can be non-intuitive to use, especially on the presenter's side. There are frequently some technical difficulties, and it's often necessary to have one or many moderators monitoring the event during its progress for ease of use. Additionally, the BlueJeans Events are a somewhat passive form of presenting, which is not ideal for the use cases within the organization.

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Joining meetings it is easy, setting up an account is also easy. It may be a bit confusing for participants that don't know the platform, as it is not straightforward to understand that joining a meeting is completely free. I am always the host and I find it easy to organize and chair meetings.

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The audience screen doesn't adjust automatically, not even on mobile phones; connection for presenters is difficult, taking time to support them and many times leaving them a bit frustrated. For us, it is not ideal the time it takes to publish content and also the time and quality of the support team replies. However, it has great potential for improvement.

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BJ Events is Available always when we need it. There was no situation that we encountered an error or an outage. How are you doing this? :)

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I think that BlueJeans Events is 7/10 because it's pretty efficient. The audio and video quality is pretty great. I've only had a few connectivity issues but otherwise, it's performed fine. The features are also impressive; I am a huge fan of being able to record my calls so that I can refer back to them whenever necessary.

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I really like site bluejeans.com and how simple it is.You can find there instructions, tips and how to create event or secure it! Of course FAQ is always useful and that's what you can find there too! Of course there is contact to support team which I remember was great and professional. Support Team really cares about their customers and don't forget about them. It feels like you can always count on them and reach out with any kind of question(s) which I think is very important.

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They are very kind and readily available online and off-line; however they hardly know the answers and always need to check, making it very lengthy process and sometimes it feels like a bit of a waste of time too. I would suggest they are given more training to start with

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Important to gather all infroamtion from client and ensure all basis are acknowledged before actually doing the installation of equipment

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Zoom is not good for presentations where a lot of people are attending. You end up having people unmute themselves and make noise while the speaker is talking. It can be very distracting. BlueJeans Events ensures that all attendees who are not required to speak are off camera and do not have the ability to speak. This allows for a smoother presentation with little to no interruptions.

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webinar.net was adopted by our company to replace ON24 since it is much cheaper. We use it in combination with Slido, sometimes. It serves large one-way webinars (up to 1,000 attendees) with limited interaction (polls and Q&A), while for smaller and more interactive online events we keep using Microsoft Teams Meetings or Webinars and Zoom Meetings.

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We've been using BJ Events with big event and it worked as good as smaller one. All meetings were international and it didn't seem like it at all, I mean the quality was great. Maybe time delay was noticeable sometimes (sound to video) but it might also be caused by poor quality of internet connection.

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• There has certainly been significant cost savings on travel, particularly for internal communications. We have also found that BlueJeans has been better than other client systems like Webex. For example, we regularly switch to using BlueJeans over customer systems (Webex, Skype for Business).
• Certainly meetings are shorter and more productive, specifically our daily standup meetings with remote users.

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• higher number of attendees
• repeating clients
• more likelihood to create a series of events vs a standalone event

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