Web Conferencing

Searching through the history of barnson.org it doesn’t seem we’ve ever written about online web conferencing. I’m currently looking for a good solution to do some online meetings because I’m sick of wasting all my time driving around town from meeting to meeting. Also, a lot of people I work with are out of town, and airfare is making travel prohibitive.

Searching through the history of barnson.org it doesn’t seem we’ve ever written about online web conferencing. I’m currently looking for a good solution to do some online meetings because I’m sick of wasting all my time driving around town from meeting to meeting. Also, a lot of people I work with are out of town, and airfare is making travel prohibitive.

After searching through what seem to be the top solutions available for general small business use, I’m concluding that the technology hasn’t gotten to the plug-and-play functionality. If I want to talk to somebody I pick up a phone and punch some numbers. If I want to go online and hold a meeting, with audio, visual and shared desktop, then it gets complicated.

I’ve got Adobe Connect and Yugma as my top two contenders. Yugma looks cool because they’ve lowered the cost and are hosting the connection by eliminating audio and video. Have Skype running in tandem and yugma can work fine. Adobe Connect looks like it has everything on the screen but the cost is more. Anyway, these are my top 2 contenders right now.

What do you guys think about web conferencing and providers?

6 thoughts on “Web Conferencing”

  1. Web Conferncing

    We just started using a service from our phone system provider Mitel called NetSolutions Hosted Web Conferencing. I was surprised to find it is not expensive compared to others we where looking at and it has all the bells and whistles. I found the service by accident and so far it has been extremly user friendly and has made my life easier. The rep I worked with is Mark Davis 602-212-0996. Tell him you where reffered by me and he would probably give you the same trial he gave me.

    Good luck.

  3. HyperMeeting from HyperOffice

    hyperoffice recently rolled out hypermeeting , its web conferencing solution. Since we had already been using HyperOffice for a long time, and were pretty pleased with the ease of use factor and functionality, we decided to give it a shot. It has lived up to our expectations, and is as close to plug and play as it can get. All you need is a fone, and a net connection, and importantly, no expertise. Even first timers to our conferences have been very comfortable and pleased with the feature set.

  4. Webex or LogMeIn

    Our company uses AT&T Webmeeting, which is just a bastardized version of webex. Webex is the defacto standard of web conferencing, but it’s not cheap.

    I use logmein.com for remote control of my home pc and it works great, but they have meeting software as well.

    My $.02 Weed

  5. Web Conferecing Simplified!

    Web Conferencing has been a gift to stack up those distances that we covered for the meetings at different places.And as for you Weed, the use of two products for your task can be simplified on a single platform. TurboMeeting, which has four coherent applications that includes remote access and remote support that will eliminate your need for two different products and will provide a single platform that could be a better solution.

    1. Not spammy!

      Finally, an advertising link on my site that is actually on-topic for the discussion.

      I’ll let it stand due to that fact. Thanks for dropping in, WebBlogger.

      —
      Matthew P. Barnson

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