Providing of recommendations determined from a collaboration session system and method

A computer program product residing on a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• identifying, by a collaboration application, a name relative to a subject discussed during at least a portion of a virtual meeting conducted via the collaboration application;
• providing, by the collaboration application, a graphical user interface to one or more participants of the virtual meeting, wherein the graphical user interface enables the one or more participants to define electronic resources that the collaboration application is permitted to search and an order of priority for searching the electronic resources;
• searching, by the collaboration application, the electronic resources based on the user defined order of priority for information associated with the name and relative to the subject;
• and
• presenting, by the collaboration application, a recommendation and a reference to an electronic resource selected from the user defined electronic resources to at least one participant of the one or more participants of the virtual meeting via the graphical user interface, wherein the recommendation is associated with information relative to the electronic resource.

A computing system including a processor and a memory configured to perform operations comprising:

• identifying, by a collaboration application, a name relative to a subject discussed during at least a portion of a virtual meeting conducted via the collaboration application;
• providing, by the collaboration application, a graphical user interface to one or more participants of the virtual meeting, wherein the graphical user interface enables the one or more participants to define electronic resources that the collaboration application is permitted to search and an order of priority for searching the electronic resources;
• searching, by the collaboration application, the electronic resources based on the user defined order of priority for information associated with the name and relative to the subject;
• and
• presenting, by the collaboration application, a recommendation and a reference to an electronic resource selected from the user defined electronic resources to at least one participant of the one or more participants of the virtual meeting via the graphical user interface, wherein the recommendation is associated with information relative to the electronic resource.