We have 3 main uses for web conference & remote training software:
- Team meetings because we are distributed across multiple locations
- Remote training for clients who don’t want on site training
- Technical Support for clients or cross department support
We’ve used a few (of the hundreds?) of web conf/meeting options and are finding GoToMeeting definately one of the better ones.
Quick glance features and things we like:
- Only £30 a month. Discounts for annual subscriptions
- Schedule meetings in advance or start them immediately
- Call in via your phone or using mic & speakers
- Displays name of the person who is talking. Handy if you don’t easily recognise other participants voices
- Up to 16 people can join on the basic package
- You can record the meeting – both video and audio
- Show your screen. If you use multiple screens you can choose which one(s) to show and also choose to hide your desktop icons
- Give control of your keyboard and mouse to others
- Make others presenters enabling them to share their screen
- Control whether attendees can use the chat window and see the attendee list and mute them all during presentations to avoid background noise
You can easily invite people because GoToMeeting populates your clipboard with the meeting details so you can just paste them into emails to fire off to participants without having to find and type out all the access codes etc.
Bigger companies will no doubt have much more specific needs but for day to day team meetings and remote training GoToMeeting is easy to use, reliable and at £30 a month it’s a no brainer.
You can get a free 30 day trial here: http://www.gotomeeting.com
Anyone else find this a great solution compared to things like Adobe Connect which cost a fortune and don’t offer much extra?
Would you like to chat about your project or requirements? Call now and talk to me directly on our Freephone number.
