We’ve all been in the situation where we are in an online meeting and we want to share a something with the other participants and couldn’t. Well there is now an answer, Dimdim.
Dimdim is a service that lets everyone everywhere to communicate using rich media in real time. For free. Though if you want to customize or brand your own meeting you can pruchase Dimdim Pro for $99 per year.
A major draw card is it’s open source so you can add to it or extend it to meet your needs, what’s more is that participants don’t need to install software on their machines to participate, they just sign up for free…
Dimdim’s mission is “to enable web collaboration for everyone. We believe that we can improve the world by providing easy, open and affordable collaboration software that anyone can use.” A noble cause indeed.
Thanks for the post! We’re working hard to make Dimdim even easier and more powerful. Hope all your readers will try Dimdim for free today.
Thanks for the post about Dimdim. We’re delighted to continue to innovate in this space and are working hard to make Dimdim even easier and more powerful. We just posted our new open source release to SourceForge.net.
Hi Jeremy,
Nice to see that you’re interested in web conferencing. I’d like to quickly let you know about Mikogo - The Free Online Meeting Tool. Many of the Mikogo users are employing the program for education and training purposes. Therefore I think Mikogo could be a great tool for Huddlemind and for the learning network.
With Mikogo (http://www.mikogo.com) the meeting organizer just needs to download a small file (approx. 1MB) and start a meeting with their own Mikogo account from their desktop. For the participants, there are no downloads nor registrations required - very easy and quick to start meetings. Also there are absolutely no costs associated with Mikogo.
With Mikogo you receive the following features all 100% free:
- screen sharing with up to 10 participants in any one Mikogo meeting
- switch presenter: allow any participant (with consent) to share their own screen
- remote control: grant remote control to a participant or request remote control from the current meeting presenter
- application selection: you can choose which applications running on your PC you wish to share and which ones you would rather keep hidden
- pause transmission: temporarily pause the screen sharing without losing connection
- file transfer: send files instantly between meeting participants
Security features:
- 256-AES end-to-end encryption
- 9-digit unique ID: only with this can you participant in the current meeeting
- optional password: enhance security by assigning a password to your upcoming meeting
- lock meeting room: prevent anyone entering your online meeting, even if they have the current 9-digit ID
Finally, Mikogo is Skype compatible - with the Mikogo Skype Extra (https://extras.skype.com/1672/view). Free phone calls and free screen sharing together.
If you have any questions about Mikogo, feel free to email me. I’d be happy to hear from you and assist you.
Regards,
Andrew Donnelly
The Mikogo Team
andrew@mikogo.com