GoToMeeting is Online Conferencing software for arranging one click meetings to present and demonstrate your products or to provide eLearning support during online training sessions. With some mix quality of features in it, GoToMeeting is a choice to think for small businesses.
Overall Rating: 3/5
Pros:
- GoToMeeting supports both PC and Mac OS with normal system requirements.
- With Desktop Sharing you can show your Desktop to every participant.
- Desktop Recording helps you to record all the activities on your Desktop.
- Web Teleconference provides the capability of conducting the conferences over the web.
- With Phone Teleconference you can carry on direct talking to attendees.
- Control Granting limits access of every participant in the meeting.
- Video Conferencing helps you to show up any tutorial or product demo online to everyone.
- With Private Chat you can separately talk to individual attendee of the meeting.
- Annotation Tools provides the capability of drawing, highlighting and pointing for everyone.
- Arrange meetings just from many popular instant message and e-mail applications in one click.
- You can also choose a specific application to share with others instead of your whole Desktop. Other people will not be able to see other applications and files which are running in the background.
- Sharing of keyboard and mouse controls to let other people demonstrate the presentation.
- Multiple Monitor Support is enabled where you can conduct a meeting in one monitor and can work on the other one.
Cons:
- Additional hardware is required to record teleconference.
- Lacks proprietary network connections and relies exclusively on the Internet
- GoToMeeting does not offer own Teleconferencing feature and uses a third party service for teleconference, which may be interrupting sometimes.
- Some features are not still supported in Mac OS, though they were the first to support Mac OS as web conferencing software.
- No option to mute other attendees in a teleconference which may be a distraction when there are other sounds mixing up from background and you need to put them off.
Quick Stats:
- Price: $49/mo or $468.00/year for annual pre-paid plan. Payments accepted through American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover Credit Cards only.
- System Requirements: Windows® 2000, XP, 2003 Server or Vista, Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.
- Internet Explorer® 6.0 or newer, Mozilla® Firefox® 2.0 or newer, SafariTM 3.0 or newer with JavaScriptTM and JavaTM enabled.
- Minimum of Pentium® class 1GHz CPU with 512 MB of RAM (recommended) to 2 GB of RAM for Windows® Vista.
- PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor 512 MB of RAM or better recommended for Mac OS.
- 1 GB of hard disk space.
- A Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection.
Though GoToMeeting offers some quick and easy setup to conduct your meetings online, you need to think again while you are going to buy this product. Having some major dependencies and bit high system requirements, it has to be a second choice for your business. It is better to have their Trial offer to justify the price they are charging for their quality of service. And remember, if you are Mac OS based, it is a kind of No-Go decision for you.
