Ideal for interviews with guests and celebrities.

Educators will find room moderation useful for online classes. Instructors can post exam/test questions to their students. When the students post their answers, only the instructor can see their response.

Businesses can use moderation to solicit input from their customers, employees, suppliers, and stock holders in a controlled environment.

• An interview scheduled online can have a one-way link to a second room that could be sold in much the same manner as a Box Seat in a concert hall. The people in the Box Seat could then hear what is going on in the main area as if they were in that room, and they can also hold their own conversations that are not heard in the main event area, between themselves. The number of extensions to the main area are virtually unlimited. The main area could be free, but there could still be a charge for a private Box Seat.

• Another scenario might be that of a university holding classes online. At the start of the semester all of the classrooms might be linked so that basic instructions can be given to all of the students at the same time, thus elminiating the need to hold the same session in each room.

  An instructor might want to have several rooms for the same class so that the number of students in any one room is kept to a minimum. This allows the students to converse about the subject matter in each room while the instructor monitors the class, just like breaking up into groups in the real world. The instructor can then receive the postings from all of the rooms in his/her office and respond to the questions that he/she wants to answer. The answer would then be posted in each of the rooms along with the question.

• Or, a company could hold a stock holders meeting online using extensible rooms. Using a 3 room setup (board room, stockholders auditorium and press box) the event could be managed such that the meeting could start with the stockholders auditorium and the press box linked in a one-way manner to the board room. After the board gives their state of the company address, they may choose to entertain questions from just the stockholders. This can be accomplished by disconnecting the press box and making the stockholders a two-way link. Moderation can be added to the stockholders auditorium so that only postings from the board could be seen. When the press is invited to join back in, their room could be connected in much the same manner so that questions from the press could be taken.

  This scenario allows the company to keep the stockholders and the press separate so that the press does not have access to easily interview the stockholders. If however the company wants to have the press receive feedback from the stockholders, the stockholders auditorium and the press box can be linked to make interviewing possible.

TTR members with the Message Box Service can read their private messages at their leisure, respond to the messages they want, and clear old messages from their message box. A graphic icon appears by your handle to let you know when a message has been placed in your message box.