Web Conferencing with DIMDIM
Since VOIP is all about communication medium, many a solutions like call center, VVOIP, Video conferencing are growing around the core VOIP solutions. A few such applications I already covered such as lightspeed, 1bizcom.
There is another aspect to this, web conferencing. There are many a solutions that aid and provide web conferencing. I like the all aspects of remote communications. Video, telephone and web has bought all of us lot closer than ever before. Other than the social aspects of communications NG (New generation) there is also a business aspects to all these. We do not have to run to Tokyo to have a meeting but combined Voice Video will bring us as close as possible.
The reason I spoke of web conferencing is that I would like to bring to you knowledge a web conferencing product, DIMDIM. Although I support all types of products that bring us a better communication mediums, I have a soft spot for Open Source Products. Some of them may as successful as Digium's Asterisk and some of them might be just emerging from enclaves that they thought bout and built. If not for OpenH323 and OpenGK, I would have never gotten in to VOIP, almost a decade ago.
So what is this DIMDIM thing? Of all things, it does not dim any thing. One thing is sure it will light up some lives and people and of course some business meetings.
So how does DIMDIM do it? Well look at it's feature and versions should give you a picture.
DIMDIM current Features;
* Presentation and Document sharing: Interactive real-time Collaboration over documents and presentations allows enhanced expression and exchange of ideas.
* Audio and video sharing: High-quality multi-party video and audio sharing can be used to personalize meetings with a face-to-face approach.
* Application sharing: Full screen as well as specific application sharing from a Presenter’s computer can be used to show and educate even a novice audience. This is in keeping with the "show, don’t tell" principle.
* White board and Annotations: Realistic interactive collaboration which involves a lot of annotations, corrections, group drawing (and doodles in the margin) is enabled through digital whiteboard and annotations feature of Dimdim. These features are possible on existing documents too leading to seamless distributed brainstorming.
* Chat: As in any real world meeting there will be sub-groups of people engaged in conversation and exchange of ideas (some serious ones others more like “kicks under the table”) within the larger assembly in a web conference. This is facilitated through the multi-user chat feature.
* Polls: Polls enable the presenter to gauge the mood of the participants and to take decisions considering the opinions of many.
* Question manager: Question manager which is like a moderated Q&A setup enables the presenter to better manage the interaction.
* Record and Archive: All the interaction is recorded and archived for sharing with non-attendees and to reach a broader audience.
* E-Learning: Teachers can conduct classes as web conferences so that physical presence of the teacher as well as students is not necessary. Also the archived sessions can be used by students for later reference as well by the teacher as a teaching tool.
There are more to the features and editions. I think in order to get an idea what DIMDIM is really like, follow the links below.
Links;
DIMDIM Home
DIMDIM feature Matrix
DIMDIM at Sourceforge
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