Six Free Web Conferencing Tools
We would like to let you know about some very nice tools that are available for distance learning. Most people may not know about the various free web conferencing tools that are available to them. Some are free with commercial upgrade packages to remove feature limitations. But others are completely free and some are even open source.
Rather than stretching your tight budget to fly out key project team members for an in-person meeting, you might consider using a Web-conferencing service, which lets anyone with an Internet connection and a Web browser meet and collaborate online in real time.
In general, Web-conferencing tools work in the same way. The person initiating the conference sets up a new meeting in the tool and then invites participants to join by sending them an email containing the meeting's time, date, password, URL, and login instructions. Some conferencing tools require participants to install a piece of software on their own computers before they can participate, though others are entirely Web-based. All require an Internet connection.
The tools diverge primarily in the features they provide for collaboration and communication. For instance, some let participants speak to one another through their computers' microphones while others let everyone interact via video.
FREE WEB CONFERENCING TOOLS
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
Yugma is quick to download and incredibly simple to use. Yugma requires no training. Anyone can go from initial download to hosting a session within a matter of minutes. Yugma is a lightweight application that starts up quickly, and takes up almost no system resources on your computer. Yugma makes it easy to stop and start sharing your desktop, so you can leave Yugma open as you work and share spontaneously throughout the day.
Designed for ease of use, WebHuddle overcomes many of the common challenges faced by other virtual meeting applications on the market -- such as high-price to entry, compromised network security, large client downloads, and unreliability -- resulting in a frustrated IT department and less than satisfactory business results.
Openmeetings is billed as a “video conferencing and group collaboration application” much like Adobe Connect. This one is built on top of OpenLaszlo with the new streaming media support and Red5, and open source media sever.
VMukti is a Free, innovative, multi-point total communications, collaboration and conferencing engine with built-in support for access to platform features through Personal Customizable Web Interface, Widgets for 3rd party websites, Desktops, and PSTN/ Mobile/ IP Phones.
Showtime, possibly the easiest-to-use and most affordable web conferencing tool around. It allows you to present your PowerPoint or PDF files to your colleagues, customers or suppliers wherever they are. They simply watch on the Internet and listen on the phone, while you talk them through your presentation. You can even show them your desktop.
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