Website Collaboration Tools
CM Pros use a wide variety of collaboration technologies.
- Web pages with threaded comment discussions (members can subscribe to a page to receive changes by email).
- Web presentations that can be driven (slide advance, pause, etc.) by any member attending an online meeting. See CM Pros first webinar.
- Telephone conference meetings using the free phone bridge at freeconference.com.
- Screen-sharing tools for up to 6 people in a meeting. We are now using the open-source screen sharing tool Real VNC, which allows remote computer access for training one person. There are also Macintosh versions from Chicken of the VNC. There is support for all major browsers. (Downloads below.)
- Meeting recordings, with simultaneous encoding and web streaming so members can listen in with no long-distance telephone charges.
- Video recordings of summit meetings, with live webcasts and archives of video on the web. We are now encoding some summit sessions as podcasts.
We are also exploring still lower-cost collaborative technologies.
- VoIP (Voice over IP)
- Client/Server - Vonage, Net2Phone
- Peer-to-peer - Skype
- Voice Chat (developed for networked game players) - GameVoice, TeamSound, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo.
- IRC Chat - requires a Chat client (e.g., Bersirc)
- IM (Instant Messaging) - requires an IM account (Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc.)
- Listen to the audio webcast, then participate by email. (BloggerCon and OSCOM meetings at Harvard have been very successful fielding email questions from listeners to the webcast).
Here are links to the VNC client and server for Windows and Macintosh platforms.
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