Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

Latest post 08-04-2009 3:12 PM by scottmacleod. 8 replies.

Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

04-04-2008 6:07 AM

Hi - need to make a decision on a system to do monthly webinars (probably a couple of hundred attendees). Looking at a PPT and audio combination.

I know there are alot of systems out there but I also want one that will allow us to save and make the events available on demand. Not sure if companies host the files on their server or provide them in a format that we would host on ours.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

04-04-2008 1:30 PM

Hi Barbara,

Indeed, the choices are many when it comes to choosing a Webinar provider.

You've got the more feature-rich and expensive players like WebEx and Adobe Connect. And then you've got the more affordable solutions like ReadyTalk and GoToMeeting.

All of these are good tools. The best way to choose the one that's right for you is to visit the vendor's site and match up their features against your own requirements and those of your audience. For example, you already know that PowerPoint and audio support are must-have features for you.

Helpful tip: Ask yourself what additional requirements -- your own requirements AND those of your audience -- will be key to the success of your Webinars.

Below is an article by IdealWare that includes some evaluation criteria for choosing a Webinar tool:

An Influx of Webinar Tools

Hope this helps.

Yann

RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

04-06-2008 10:15 AM

Thanks. This is very helpful. I only knew about the Go To's and I really wanted to have a few options to check out. The Ready to Talk and some of the others mentioned look pretty good. Thanks again.

RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

04-10-2008 8:51 AM

You're quite welcome. Hope you'll let us know which tool you go with!

Yann

RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

04-14-2008 1:43 PM

Another decent (and free!) tool is Yugma.com

RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

04-15-2008 7:14 AM

This looks really interesting. Thanks for posting. I'm going to test it out. I'm also looking at Ready Talk but am having trouble nailing down pricing with them. I will post when I decide on a final solution and after we test it out :)

RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

04-16-2008 6:52 AM

Yugma looks interesting -- thanks for mentioning it Dmitri. Entirely free is pretty cool.

I'll look into this tool more closely when I get the chance.

Yann

Re: RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

08-04-2009 2:31 PM

Re-surfacing this one and appreciate all the insights so far. One thing that I would love to see on webinar platforms is a way to embed a Twitter chat on the site and/or incorporate it into the existing chat function on the site.  That way if you are tweeting about the event, you could see the Twitter feed on the webinar site without having to toggle back and forth between Twitter or a Twitter client and the webinar window. Even better would be a way to have a Twitter hashtag automatically go into the webinar chat. I was on an NTEN live chat session that used CoverItLive that had this functionality, but I haven't seen one yet that would do this for webinars. Anyone know of one?

Re: RE: Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

08-04-2009 3:12 PM

This is as close as I've seen: http://joycebettencourt.com/ - LIfestream?

 

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