I just gave a webinar using DimDim’s free webinar software. Dimdim touts their software as being cheap, simple and easy, with no installs. I thought this would be an excellent web application for small businesses looking for cheap webinar/video/teleconferencing ability.

There is virtually no set-up to do, you just register with your email address and a password. (Some negligible little apps run in the computer’s background like their share-a-screen capability.) Then you can schedule a future meeting or begin hosting a meeting with the click of a button. For my webinar, I chose to share a document — you can share a PDF or a Powerpoint document. You can also opt to share your computer screen, a whiteboard, or web pages.

My only gripe: I ran into an issue with the Dial-in feature. People who chose to dial in and listen through the phone kept getting hold music. Even I got hold music! I had to hit *3 on my phone to kill it. Then people couldn’t hear me. I contacted support, and immediately someone joined my conference to help me. It was a test meeting only thank goodness! The support person couldn’t reproduce the problem which reappeared during my live webinar an hour later. He just recommended that people hang up and dial in again. So anyway, the dial-in feature never worked as far as I know but no attendees complained. This issue is documented on the DimDim forums but as yet I haven’t seen a solution.

After the webinar ended, Dimdim sent me an email with a neat little link to view or download my chat session and a video of my webinar. So easy! I love it!

Overall I like DimDim. The free version has many cool features. I liked the option to record, public/private chat, video/audio capability, sends you to any URL at the close of the meeting, show/hide attendee list, etc. That’s my review, I would use it again. There is a slight learning curve, so I suggest you do a trial run web conference and watch the video tutorials or read some of the FAQs and Knowledge base posts if you run into any snags!

In other news… I will be editing today’s webinar video and posting a copy shortly…

** UPDATE ** Free Webinar Now Available for Download **

** Call Mindspring Design at (856) 393-0385 to set up or host your next webinar. **

Adios!

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