Adobe ConnectNOW: Collaborative web conferencing
Posted on June 13, 2008 by Derek
Filed Under Collaborative Tools, Interactive Tools, Productivity Tool
A few days ago, while looking for a web conferencing solution for a professor looking to do online office hours, I stumbled upon Adobe’s online application ConnectNOW. While it wasn’t a solution to the original problem, after giving it a quick try I came to see it has many other very interesting functions.
The application (which is free!) basically gives you an online meeting space, which can be accessed and edited at anytime by those invited by the creator. After signing up with your email address, a space (kind of like a personal webpage) will be created where you can store files, notes, whiteboard drawings as well as anything else you add during a meeting. This allows you to meet online (with webcam and audio feeds) while typing shared notes and drawing on a whiteboard, then at a later date you can come back to the space and view, edit, or add to what was there from the meeting. This gives you a lot of flexibility when collaborating with colleagues at a distance.
Some of the other features include file sharing/storing, the ability to remote access other computers as well as telephone conferencing. One of the downsides of the application is that group size is restricted to three people on the free version. However, for a small collaborative project or meeting, this seems like quite a useful tool.
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Thanks for the links Anthony!
For anyone else who is interested, I’ve stumbled upon another great free web conferencing solution called DimDim which is available at http://www.dimdim.com