conferencing
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My company uses Lotus Sametime a lot.
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You have my deepest sympathies. We also "use" Sametime, or at least we would, if it ever actually worked.
Hmmm, it's never failed to work for us. The screen sharing feature has been really helpful. Admittingly, we've only been using it for nine years so maybe our time is yet to come.
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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If you mean off-line / on-line conferencing in the style of Live Journal et al, then I would recommend a small, unknown system that in its heyday was THE conferencing system, but which has almost been entirely forgotten, despite the fact that it knocks spots off anything else out there, be it LiveJournal, phpbbs, Facebook etc take a look at http://forums.cixonline.com and sign up for a free trial... Not only is this just about the best web-based conferencing system you are likely to come across, full members have an off-line reader (windows only at present) available that downloads activity to your machine and allows you to read and reply without being connected. (I have no links with the suppliers, other than having been a satisfied user for over 20 years!) I just - by invitation - joined Microsoft's Partner Forum. Even with the resources that MS can afford to throw at their system, it doesn't touch CIX for ease of use, speed etc Mike
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GoToMeeting[^]works well if you want to pay. Excellent reliability, offer local numbers in most coutries for dial in and has good VOIP quality. I have recently been looking at FUZE[^] as a free alternative. This does not offer VOIP audio but looks competent although I do not have enough experience to comment on reliability. Personally I do not like WebEx or Live Meeting.
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Personally I've found WebEx to be horrendous, very unreliable. I've only used it as an attendee but on the 4/5 occasions I've used WebEx it kept disconnecting. The UI is counter intuitive. From a company like Cisco, a really poor product. Never had an issue with GoToMeeting or Microsoft Live Meeting http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/livemeeting/FX101729061033.aspx[^]
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My company tossed webex for ilink[^] a year or so ago; but one of their primary requirements was being able to host the meeting server internally instead of sending it (unencrypted???) via a 3rd party. If your paranoia levels aren't as high that's probably not a major concern. I've never actually used either so I'm not sure which works better.
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Interwise
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I can't believe no one mentioned www.dimdim.com This free application is awesome. I've been using it for a group project nearly seemlessly. Meetings up to 20 for free; one limitation I found is only can share three (3) microphones.
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We use Yugma www.yugma.com[^]. Its free and works
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