Using OnlineMeetingRooms.com
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Yesterday I used OnlineMeetingRooms.com for the first time as part of James Corbetts Coffee Cooler. Online Meeting Rooms is run by Joe Garde and when I logged in, Joe himself was logged in so we had a quick chat.
I assumed it would be a little clunky especially considering my ongoing LAN/Broadband reliability issues but it all ran very smoothly. My 1MB connection didn’t quite meet Joe’s recommended connection speeds for using Online Meeting Rooms but there were no problems at all, the video and audio never went out of sync.
I got to see some very useful features such as being able to share a browser window where the host could append notes or drawings. The quality of the video could also be put up or down to allow it to better suit the different connection speeds of a user. Users windows could be moved around too and resized to facilitate a main talker if there were plenty of people taking part.
I’d love to use it again with a few more people joining in to see how it holds up. I might also suggest using this to a few customers in Dublin that we visit from time to time to save on travelling up and down. It would be a handy way to show a user how to perform certain actions in the eWrite software for example without the need for them to install any new software.
