Fuze Meeting is a web conferencing tool that lets you share everything on your screen in high resolution with anyone, anywhere, on any device… on any continent, on any planet, in any of the neighboring galaxies. Okay, not quite. But one day.

Available in various pricing plans, depending on attendees’ number and storage space, Fuze Meeting allows you to host conferences online, without the need of installing any software, offering a lot of great features that I’ve not even seen in standalone softwares.

Let’s take a look to all the features…Or check their feature list here!

Setting Up A Meeting

When you first login into your Fuze Meeting account, you will be able to choose whether to watch a short introduction tutorial to see all the features it can offer or, if you are like me and want to go immediately inside, you can start a new meeting in seconds by clicking a button, and start inviting people via email, or social media links. You can also schedule a meeting for the future, and send email invitations to let everyone know about the upcoming event.

When the meeting has started, you will be presented with a friendly interface, that’ll enable you to control everything that happens in the room.

Meeting Interface

Attendees List

Located on the top left of the screen, this is the main instrument of the software, and here you can actually see all the meeting’s participants, decide who you want to promote as a presenter (so that he/she can help you out through the meeting)…and also who you want to kick out of the room!

Text Chat And Call Panel – Skype Integration

As the name says, this part of the screen is dedicated to the verbal communication: you can send private or public text messages to people, see their answers, and also call in a number to start a voice conference that you can fully control by unmuting people and giving them speech.

You can also add fuzemeeting to your Skype contact list to access phone conferencing sessions in Fuze Meeting: just call fuzemeeting, enter the room number and you’re done!

Share Desktop

This is the only Fuze Meeting’s feature that requires a plugin: in fact, clicking the screen sharing button will pop up a box, in which you will be prompted to install a small extension in order to share your screen images.

Add Content

Yes! As in every web conferencing room you are allowed to share and co-work on any type of material: you can upload videos, images, presentation and high quality content, as well as adding text notes on which presenters can write in real-time, and also start whiteboarding session for drawing, making sketches, adding text captions and more.

Contacts

Another very interesting feature that I really like is the contacts menu. On the upper left of the screen, next to the meeting tab, you can find a place where you can actually import contacts and create a list of all the people you want to meet with: it supports Google Talk, Windows Live, Yahoo, AOL and Linked-In accounts, and you can add further infos for everyone such as phone numbers, email, instant messenger IDs and more.

Pros And Cons

There are actually only pros to Fuze Meeting: the user interface is really intuitive, it is full of interesting features, it is completely web based, and the team support is simply amazing.

There’s also a mobile version of Fuze Meeting (iPhone and BlackBerry) for you to join and create meetings, even when you travel or cannot access a PC, and this is a unique feature that you would not want to miss!

For more detailed information you can check the official Fuze Meeting Website, or take a look at the company size, Fuze Box

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MeBeam comes just a simple website in its look, with a central box and some other buttons, but in reality it is a powerful collaboration tool that allows you to create video chat rooms for up to 16 people.

After you type a name into the box, it will automatically create a video conferencing room for up to 16 people.

You can then invite other people to join the room by giving them the room’s URL: all they’ll need is a web browser, Flash player, a webcam and a microphone.

The service is completely free to use, and can be used without any registration.

Link: http://www.mebeam.com/

Twiddla is a free web-based whiteboarding software, but also a complete online collaboration solution for every team that needs to communicate in real-time over the internet by chatting, talking, co-browsing pages, and whiteboarding.

After you start a new meeting by clicking the button on the home page and setting it up deciding whether it’ll be a public or password protected meeting, you can invite as many people as you want by sharing the URL (and the related password if necessary) via email, IM, or phone, or simply by clicking “Invite People” and typing their email addresses in.

Now that your meeting has started and has people inside, you just have to choose what to do:

• You can co-browse any Internet page by typing its URL.

  

• You can draw and add shapes on the whiteboard, or even on the web page you are currently browsing, by using one of the drawing tools.

  

• You can annotate the screen and upload images.

  

• You can text-chat with everyone in the room, as well as engaging a voice chat with them by clicking on the red button “Join Audio”.

  

• You can take snapshots of the session, clearing the board, and exiting the meeting at anytime with a single click.

  

Obviously the tool is completely free, and you can start using it now by registering and logging in to the service.

Link: http://www.twiddla.com/