[BNM] web conferencing (Paul Silver)

[Mark Aberdour]

Hi Paul, We are using DimDim successfully, has most of the features of 
the commercial webinar tools like WebEx and Adobe Connect but it's free 
and open source. You can sign up for the hosted Pro version if you wish 
to have more attendees which is what we do. The key lesson I have 
learned is never host a webinar (with ANY of these products) with a 
wireless connection as your presentation will most likely flop for many 
users! Get on a wired connection and you should be fine :) I did an 
overview of Connect vs WebEx vs DimDim vs the best of the rest, you can 
read it at 
http://www.kineoopensource.com/index.php/free-resources/reviews/virtual-classrooms-overview.html 
I keep coming across new webinar products though, it's a fast moving 
market. For a fuller list check our this amazing mindmap: 
http://www.mindmeister.com/12213323 Good luck, Mark On Fri, 29 May 2009 
16:44:18 +0100, "JOHN COOPER" <John.Cooper at atomicshed.com> said:

> > 
> > Hi all
> > Anyone here have specific interests in web conferencing, actually  
> > running a conference rather than attend one
> > 
> > What are the key technologies I should be looking particularly for
> > 	Video conferencing, webcasts
> > 	able to insert premade video sequences
> > 	Text communication
> > 	VOIP
> > 	
> > Just looking into Acrobat Connect at the moment.
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > John Cooper
> > 
> > john at atomicshed.com
> > 
> > www.atomicshed.com
> > blog.atomicshed.com
> > 
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