Still Possible to 'Attend' 2010 Annual Meeting Sessions-Virtually

ASCO products deliver videos and slides from presentations ASCO August 2010, Volume 1, Issue 3

Video and slides of educational sessions from the ASCO 2010 Annual Meeting are now available electronically using the Virtual Meeting, a product that allows users to watch and listen to the presentations over the Internet.

iPhoneThe Virtual Meeting player provides access to all nonticketed sessions and selected ticketed sessions from the meeting, including plenary sessions, education sessions and discussions, clinical science symposia, special sessions, and abstract and poster presentations.

The Virtual Meeting features user-friendly access to and sorting of the content in number of ways. For example, when the user selects "Developmental Therapeutics Track," the education sessions, four clinical science symposia, and six poster and oral abstract sessions related to this topic are immediately listed, with sorting available by session title or session type.

All of the content of the Annual Meeting is searchable by speaker, session name, abstract number, or key word. The Virtual Meeting also features the opportunity to see related videos or browse a list of most-viewed videos.

Podcast Offers Second Format Option

Presentations from the 2010 Annual Meeting are also available as a series of audio and video podcasts. Subscribers to ASCO's Podcast have full access to all captured presentations from the meeting and can listen to and watch the files on a computer or a portable media player.

ASCO's Podcast allows downloading to MP3 and MP4 players, iPod, iPhone, or CD. Once downloaded, sessions are available without Internet access.

As with the Virtual Meeting, sessions are fully searchable by speaker, session name, abstract number, or keyword. Technical support is available by both phone and email.

To subscribe to either the Virtual Meeting or Podcast, visit www.asco.org and click on "Multimedia." ■

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