Have Meetings, Don't Travel: 10 Best New Virtual Meeting Tools
You no longer have to fly across the country to meet with clients: These web conferencing and virtual meeting tools help you hold your meeting without leaving your desk.
Doodle helps you schedule meetings by creating a poll of dates and times and letting users vote on them. The basic service is free (and doesn't even require a login).
Glance lets users share their computer screens with each other live. Up to 100 guests can see your screen, and free phone conferencing is available with every account. Try it free; then it's $49.95/month, $499/year, or $9.95 for a day pass.
Yugma provides free web conferencing by letting users share their desktops and documents with up to 20 other people. Yugma Pro starts at $14.95/month and adds collaboration tools like a whiteboard and annotation.
Dimdim lets you host and attend live meetings, webinars, and demos from a web browser, plus instantly share documents, audio, and video. The basic version is free and allows a maximum of 20 attendees; premium options increase the number of attendees and features and start at $25/month.
Mikogo desktop sharing is free, allowing up to 10 participants in a meeting.
Tokbox provides free video chat and video messaging for up to 20 people; you can also share videos and documents. Premium options start at $9.99/month and include features like scheduling, more users, moderation, and audience participation.
Team Apart lets you use your computer's webcam and microphone to collaborate with others, including document and image viewing, whiteboarding, real-time notepad, and screen sharing. The service is currently in beta and is free.
GoTo Meeting, Webinar, and Training
Depending on what you need, select a GoTo tool to conduct a
meeting, set up and present a webinar, or conduct interactive training
sessions. Pricing begins at $49/month, or $468/year, for GoTo Meeting.
What's your favorite technology for avoiding air travel for meetings? Leave it in the comments!
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