September 23, 2008 - 7:44am
Alternatives
There are a lot of options. I'm familiar with WebEx, imeeting (from Oracle) and a few others.
When you step outside corporate money I'm not sure who would be good to go with. If everyone is on a mac you can use ichat screen sharing.
I'd love to hear some other input.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
September 24, 2008 - 12:50pm
October 16, 2008 - 2:10pm
GoToMeeting
I primarily work remotely and when I attend meetings with others in the office we use GoToMeeting. It works well, provides VoIP and screensharing. The pricing is still probably a little high at $39/month for a personal account when you buy a year license.
I agree with Matt - and did a quick search and found a few others. You could maybe look at Yugma - pricing was $9.95/month. I've never used it so can't really compare.
-Jeff
Disclaimer: I work for Citrix on the GoToMeeting product, so the plug might be a little biased :)
October 17, 2008 - 11:57am
Give Yugma a Try!
Thanks for the Yugma mention Jeff! Rebecca here from Yugma (www.yugma.com), I would like to encourage your readers to give our service a try. We have a number of non-profits that use our service because of its ease of use and very reasonable prices, plus there are no contracts and you can change your level of service at any time.
Yugma is a Java-based web collaboration and online meeting service that works for Mac, Windows and Linux users. We offer a FREE Personal version that can be used for desktop sharing and allows you to invite up to 10 participants. Also, during the first 15 days after signing up, you’ll be able test drive the Professional version of Yugma and if you like the Professional features, we have monthly plans that start at $9.95/month. If you have any comments or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you (email to: info@yugma.com). Many thanks!
October 21, 2008 - 6:43am
BeamYourScreen
Hi Terry,
Just wanted to let you know about a product that you may be interested in checking out: BeamYourScreen http://www.beamyourscreen.com
BeamYourScreen is a professional and easy-to-use online collaboration tool. Share your screen in real time and true color quality with multiple participants. Features include: switch presenter, remote keyboard/mouse control, award-winning HTML viewer, whiteboard, application selection, pointer, file transfer, recording, and more.
Take a look at our homepage and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Regards,
Andrew
BeamYourScreen
adonnelly(at)beamyourscreen.com
September 9, 2009 - 8:13am
http://www.showdocument.com
I want to suggest you try http://www.showdocument.com - its an alternative tool for beamyourscreen that allows document sharing and web meeting in real-time. all the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc. It is free and requires no installation.
Josh
Hello.
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this, but was interested in what kind of web conferencing software people use, if at all, when developing websites. Myself, I work at a commercial CMS company, and have developed a couple of church and personal sites w/Joomla.
At my company, WebEx is used quite frequently for product demos and troubleshooting. WebEx and products of it's ilk let me display my desktop to remote users for demos or getting feedback, or to do impromptu training sessions by displaying a remote user desktop, while doing a VOIP multi-user conference. In the past I've written tutorials and Jing screencasts to document CMS functionality and authoring processes, but have found this approach time consuming and somewhat ineffective... often my end-users have varying technical backgrounds, and as a group are not very proactive about reading documentation, in written, multimedia, or wiki format :).
WebEx is however, very expensive on a non-corporate budget, about $60/month for an annual license.
http://www.webex.com/buywebex.html
I've seen a few competitors, ie Glance, and an open source product called DimDim (quirky name), but am familiar with WebEx and feel responsiveness is more important than saving a couple bucks a month. VNC clients or RDC on a network for example, are fine for troubleshooting and remote administration, but not for the usage I've outlined above.
I'd be curious to hear other people's experiences, and/or whether there is a more competitively priced product out there worth considering.
Cheers, Terry