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Now, MIVNET’s new features are making it even easier for customers to compare lists of public rooms on price, appearance, location, hours of operation, and more, to select the room which best fits their needs.</span></span></p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;">&#160;</p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;"><span style=" font-family: Arial;"><span style=" font-size: 10pt;">Among the many new features are: The “promotion manager”, where public room owners can place their rooms in a promotion mode for a period of time, and increase their visibility, in the promotion area; an API for developers to share the MIVNET resources with visitors to their website, in a branded search box on their site; vendor advertising, for companies that want to better expose their services (ideal for hotels and technology services supporting videoconferencing); and banner advertising, for companies that either want additional exposure, or exposure across the domain, rather than searchable advertising.</span></span></p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;">&#160;</p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;"><span style=" font-family: Arial;"><span style=" font-size: 10pt;">There is also a live chat feature, so customers, vendors who provide services that support videoconferencing, and owners of public rooms can chat in real time on the MIVNET site.</span></span></p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;">&#160;</p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;"><span style=" font-family: Arial;"><span style=" font-size: 10pt;">The site now also features a “carbon calculator”, which allows users to calculate how much time, carbon and money they are saving by using videoconferencing rather than traditional meetings.</span></span></p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;">&#160;</p> <p style=" margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas;"><span style=" font-family: Arial;"><span style=" font-size: 10pt;">Those wishing to use MIVNET’s many new features, or wanting to learn more about MIVNET and videoconferencing, can </span></span><a target="_blank" href="http://mivnet.com/contact_us_form.html"><span style=" font-family: Arial;"><span style=" font-size: 10pt;">contact </span></span></a><span style=" font-family: Arial;"><span style=" font-size: 10pt;">MIVNET.</span></span></p> http://mivnet.com/MIVNET_Videoconferencing_Directory_Unveils_Host_Of.html 2012-02-22T18:11:46Z