Web Conferencing Using ConcourseConnect
Posted by Tom Manos on June 29, 2009, 1:05 PM EDT
Imagine you are a business owner who wants to host webinars in support of a new product. Or maybe you're managing a project with members distributed nationally, or even world-wide. Perhaps you are a member of a distributed users group who wants to make a presentation over the net.
Web conferencing, presentations, and webinars are a large part of most companies sales and marketing efforts these days. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to simply manage all your web meeting needs right from within your community?
ConcourseConnect now allows you to do all these things and more, simply and inexpensively - even free!
Read on for the rest of the story...
We've been busy over the last month or so integrating the highly-regarded DimDim service into ConcourseConnect.
DimDim is a web conferencing system that delivers synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing your voice and video over the Internet. The DimDim service is very inexpensive: the monthly subscription is only $20 for unlimited meetings with up to 50 attendees, and the service works on pretty much any PC or laptop. We use it here at Concursive with our MacBooks. Subscriptions for larger groups are available, and similarly inexpensive compared to the competition (Webex: $69/mo, GoToMeeting: $49/mo) with the same features, and simpler to use. There is even a completely free edition for meetings with up to 20 attendees.
We'll do more in the future with DimDIm, but for now ConcourseConnect provides the following capabilities:
- Schedule a web meeting from any listing's calendar; specify date/time, duration, subject, description and participants
- Add and remove participants before the meeting
- Send an email detailing the web meeting and how to access Dimdim to all participants
- Participants can login to Connect to indicate Accepted, Declined, or Tentative
- Participants can access the meeting by clicking "Join the meeting" on the Calendar page
And what's more, it's not a service you pay extra for from Concursive; it's free (although you may elect to pay for the DimDim service), and is even available now in our Open Source version. DimDim will also be integrated into ConcourseSuite, our enterprise CRM, in the near future.
I have attached some screen shots below.
Watch for more announcements, and enjoy managing and running web meetings and webinars from ConcourseConnect!
Scheduling a meeting
Preparing Invitations
The meeting displayed on the calendar
