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Mikogo: A friendly and easy-to-use tool for your online meetings

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Are you planning to hold a meeting, online presentation, webinar or training but you have no idea where to start or what software to use? There’s a list of online meeting and conference tools and platforms offering really good services according with your needs and expectations. Today, we’ll review a new ease-to-use online meeting tool: Mikogo.

According with the Official Website, Mikogo is a free online desktop sharing tool full of features to assist you in conducting the perfect online presentation.

Mikogo can be employed for a range of professional, academic, or personal uses, including online meetings, product demonstrations, online presentations, remote support, or webinars. Provide online technical support for your customers. Conduct product demonstrations for business customers. Use Mikogo to discuss and edit a current team project. Or on a personal level, share your most recent holiday photos with loved ones.

Mikogo is 100% free, with a “no hidden catch” approach, no trial periods, and no feature limitations. There is no registration or subscription fee, and no credit card details are required. There is absolutely no cost whatsoever!

What are the features?

* Full communication Windows – Mac
* Screen sharing with up to 10 participants
* Switch presenter – any participant can become the presenter
* Remote keyboard/mouse control
* Pause Transmission
* Recording & playback
* Application Selection
* File Transfer
* Whiteboard
* Send your meeting invitation by emails
* Mikogo is completely secure. Migoko uses industry-leading 256-AES end-to-end encryption
* Available for private and commercial use
* Clean, uncluttered user-interface to allow meeting organizer/participants to focus on the task at hand
* Easy and user-friendly
* No time limitations, which means you can host unlimited meetings for as long as you like and as often as you like
* Meet scheduler with meeting waiting room service
* Application selection – Example: You have several windows open, but only wish to share a certain document (Ex. a PDF File). You can select to hide all applications from the view of the participants, but keep the document in view. This is applicable with any application.

One of the most relevant features is the Mikogo’s Skype Extra. Mikogo’s new Skype Extra provides the perfect Web conferencing solution with free screen sharing and phone calls together for no cost. With the Mikogo Skype Extra you can invite up to 10 participants to any Mikogo screen sharing session directly from your Skype UI. Now all Skype users have access to high quality screen sharing in real time and in true color quality.

What can you do during a meeting?

* Share each others’ screens
* Change presenters
* Access remote control
* Pause transmission
* Select only certain applications for sharing
* Transfer files

One of the first great advantages that you will notice about Mikogo is that it provides a clean, uncluttered online meeting solution. You can start meetings via the Mikogo menu, accessible from your desktop. Then during the meeting, you can access the features by clicking on the M icon in your system tray which brings up the Mikogo menu. This keeps your screen very free and allows your participants to focus on the meeting or presentation at hand.

Furthermore, with Mikogo you can share any screen content or application as you need it – websites, PDFs, powerpoint files, spreadsheets, images, etc. No need to upload files beforehand. This allows you to be very flexible during your meeting.

Mikogo is quick and easy. Just download the small Mikogo-Starter file, enter user details, and you can start free Mikogo meetings with just a couple of mouse clicks right from your system tray.

Watch this short video about Mikogo:

Download Mikogo and plan your next online meeting with your relatives, friends, clients, employees or students

Visit the Official Website: http://www.mikogo.com/

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August 12th, 2009 at 9:56 am

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