17 posts tagged “gotomeeting”

Robin Good recently reviewed the new version of GoToMeeting -- version 4. The new version comes with some a couple of significant new features like Mac compatibility and VoIP support. Looks like GoToMeeting has been carefully watching Skype and Yugma in their rear view mirror. Skype provides free and low cost VoIP for Windows, Mac, and Linux) and Yugma provides free and low cost desktop sharing tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Read the entire review...

With gas prices at an all time high, it's no surprise that more people are waking up to the benefits of online meetings  and web conferencing. Just look at year of year growth of traffic for top players Webex and GoToMeeting. Now... see below...

Given the number of smaller players and level of hyper competition in the web conferencing space, it's interesting to observe how these small players are growing via their diverse marketing strategies. Here is a snap shot of traffic growth for a couple of the more notable of these smaller emerging players: DimDim, Glance.net, Vyew, Yugma, and Yuuguu.

VoIP Planet has posted a review of Yugma version 3 – Yugma: CoIP (Collaboration over IP) – written by Gerry Blackwell. "Is there room in the market for yet another Web-based collaboration service? After all, we already have WebEx and GoToMeeting, among others. Yugma Inc., a Minneapolis company that recently launched version 3 of its collaboration software, thinks the answer is Yes." Read more...

Enter two new applications I’ve looked at recently; Yugma and Tungle. Yugma is like WebEx or GoToMeeting. Tungle allows you to more easily schedule meetings across corporate boundaries. Both are exceptionally useful applications.

Here are three great examples of how small and mid sized businesses are using Yugma to grow their customer base, provide better customer service, and significantly reduce travel expenses (e.g., do more, travel less).

"When inspiration hits, you want to be able to share ideas on the spot," said Christian Erickson, Partner at Zeus Jones. "We find ourselves leaving Yugma open all day long. That way we can show each other what we're doing without having to constantly get up to see each other's monitors." Read more...  

Sajan had used both WebEx and GoToMeeting, but became frustrated with both because of downtime and expense. "Yugma just works," said Lee. "The software is quick to download and setup, even if clients have never used it before." Read more...

“Yugma helps us feel bigger,” said Jeremy Konko from QTags. “Yugma is very easy to use and setup, which is one of the reasons we liked it,” said Konko. Read more...

If you are a SMB business, get your own basic free-forever Yugma account any time at their website.  

Sign up now for a new Yugma Free Web Conferencing account at www.yugma.com/promotions and enter promotion code LC367405. You’ll get Yugma's easy to use web conferencing service with all Premium features activated through May 31^st. After that, your account converts to a Yugma FREE account, which is free forever. You'll find that Yugma saves you a lot of time, saves you a lot of money, and helps you make the world a greener place.

Take for example: If every worker replaced one round-trip car ride each week with a Yugma Conferencing session, there would be a significant reduction in CO2 emissions world wide. Based on conservative assumptions, Yugma would easily save the equivalent of two full days of non-stop driving each year, per person! Imagine the positive impact to our environment. At Yugma, we know it’s possible. We hear from good people around the world every day using Yugma.... all saving a lot of time, saving a lot of money, and all helping to make the world a greener place.

PS - Recommended blog is Another Green World by Judith Lewis at http://blogs.laweekly.com/judith_lewis/

We just updated the Yugma website so that once you sign in (and click "remember me") you stay logged in. And when you are logged into the Yugma website, when ever you click Start or Join a session, you’ll now go straight into a Yugma session without being prompted again for your Username and Password. Additionally, when you are signed in to the website, Yugma will automatically display your summary of your upcoming Yugma sessions.

Thanks to all of the members of the Yugma community for your great suggestions. We're making Yugma easier to use every day. By the way, we've got many big and little improvements on the way. Keep sending us your suggestions (at forum[at]yugma.com), and stay tuned.

One last thing: please remember to tell your friends and co-workers about Yugma. You'll automatically be entered to win this month's "Tell a Friend" sweepstakes for the 80GB iPod.

The Linux version of the Yugma free web conferencing service is available at the beta test site http://test.yugma.com/about/index.php (then click the DOWNLOAD button). It supports Red Hat Enterprise 4.0, Mandriva, Open SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Centos, and Ubuntu.

You are welcomed to test it out. Please let us know what you experience in this version (send comments to support[at]yugma[dot]com). The only caveat about the beta version on the test platform is that the servers and bandwidth is not the same level as available in our production service. Therefore, if you see slower performance, it’s due to the nature of the test platform.

We are planning to move the Linux compatible version (beta) of Yugma to the production site over the weekend.