GoToMeeting allows participants to view and utilize applications on each other’s computers in real time.   Essentially, participants can watch as the meeting host edits a document (for instance) on their own screen, while he does it on his.  GoToMeeting is perfect for training, presentations, demonstrations, collaborations, and overall synchronizing.    

Easily Invite others to your Online Meeting

Starting or joining a meeting is as simple as going to www.GoToMeeting.com, clicking "Host A Meeting" or "Join A Meeting", and clicking "yes".

Sending someone information to connect is really easy too. Right as the meeting starts, there is a popup with different ways to tell people how to join, such as calling them, emailing them and more.

Record your meeting for future reference

This software is a must have for any corporation that deals with people and computers. Instead of mailing a power point presentation for them to read through, or flying all the way out to visit a client, you can have a compromise of pointing out everything live over the internet.

Give your keyboard and mouse to other attendees

After using GoToMeeting, I realized how much I need this software. It has defiantly spoiled me, since explaining things over the phone is so much more frustrating and this software is so simple for clients and affiliates to join your meeting.

Features
There are some really cool features that make this easy to use software even more awesome. There are drawing tools that allow you to draw on each other’s screen to help with your presentation. By default they are off, but  can be enabled to allow attendees to highlight, draw, point with an arrow, and play tic-tac-toe with each other. The Highlight tool is a little frustrating, it shows a red clear highlight around the mouse pointer but doesn’t allow you to click so you have to change back to the normal cruiser, meaning you’ll have to use the keyboard instead of clicking through presentations.

Draw on each other's screens

GoToMeeting also has a built-in recording function. This allows you to add a recording bar to your control panel that lets you record, pause, and continue recording your meeting for future reference. Using GoToWebinar, you can upload it immediately afterwards to send out and allow others to stream.  To save it to a windows media video file, it has to process the video after the meeting ends. This means your computer is slowed down,  depending on how fast your computer is and how long of a meeting you recorded. There’s no way to pause this or avoid it except by saving in a special GoToMeeting codec that requires others to install the codec before being able to view the video, which is a slight inconvience. The recording will also not record the voice conference call, which is a let-down. There is a way to route your office phone, cordless phone and even cell phone through your computer so it does record it using a special connector, more about this at the end of the article.

The security features on GoToMeeting are also impressive and reassuring.  The security keeps confidential meetings private and prevents sensitive information from leaking.   It is also firewall friendly.

GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar have a system tray tool that allows you to keep GoToMeeting easily available. With a right click and "Meet Now," you can have a meeting ready in a few seconds for someone to join.

While presenting, if you receive a instant message or need to check your email, you can use the simple pause function which will freeze your screen so you can keep your meeting going while you quickly check on other matters.

Clean away your desktop icons and others to keep a clean look when presenting on your computer

The software is very complex and has many more features like Multiple Monitor Support, Attendance Reporting, Specific Application Sharing instead of the entire desktop.

Pricing
GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar are all available at one flat fee per month for unlimited use. $49.00/month for an unlimited GoToMeeting account, or get an Annual Plan and save 20%.

Recording Audio with DynaMetric
Recording is a great feature in GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar, so you can provide attendees something to refer back to. To be able to record sound using their built-in software, you need a device that will route your phone conversation through your computer to record. DynaMetric has many wonderful solutions for this.

DynaMetrics makes devices to route your conference call to your PC for video and audio recording

Definatly give GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar a try right now for free:
www.GoToMeeting.com
www.GoToWebinar.com

Get a device to record web conferences form DynaMetric:
www.dynametric.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=5