Why Web Conference?

Emerging TechnologiesFall 2009

Web-Conferencing

Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet.

In a web conference, each participant sits at his or her own computer and is connected to other participants via the internet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the early years of the Internet

"web conferencing" was often used to describe a group discussion in a message board

not real time evolved to live or "synchronous" meetings.

How Is this Done?

downloaded application on each of the attendees' computers or a web-based application

attendees access the meeting by clicking on a link distributed by e-mail (meeting invitation) to enter the conference.

My Favourites…

Dimdim (free) Yugma (free) GoTo Meeting & GoToWebinar ($) Adobe Acrobat ($) WebEx ($)

Few others…

Notable vendors with articles: Fuze Meeting Genesys Meeting Center Glance IBM Lotus Sametime InterCall ICU Live! Microsoft Office Live Meeting MSN Netviewer

Few…more

Oracle Beehive ReadyTalk RHUB Communications SeeToo TalkPoint TimeBridge Tokbox VIA3 WebTrain Zoho

Introducing Webinars…

A webinar is a specific type of web conference

one-way

collaborative

A webinar can be collaborative

Polling

question & answer sessions

full participation between the audience and the presenter.

Some other neat things to know…

VoIP audio technology allows for complete web-based communication.

Webinars may provide hidden or anonymous participant functionality, making participants unaware of other participants in the same meeting.

Other typical features of a web conference include….

Slide show presentations Live or Streaming video VoIP Web tours Meeting Recording Whiteboard with annotation

More features of a web conference ...

Text chat Polls and surveys Screen sharing/desktop sharing/application

sharing