Powerful yet simple, expansive yet concise, “TopTenREVIEWS’ Silver Award” winner GoToMeeting is a versatile web conferencing program that brings a no-frills functionality without skimping on program quality and performance.
In the last 2 years, GoToMeeting has received dozens of awards, commendations and garnered favorable press for moving web conferencing through the doors opened by advancements and developments in other telecommunications technologies like VoIP. Offering multi-browser and multi-platform support for virtually all Internet-connect computers, GoToMeeting remains a simple, one-click affair for meeting and presentation attendees, while remaining an intuitive and powerful tool for presenters, hosts and those granted certain controls and privileges.
With GoToMeeting, presenters can create meetings and demonstrations ad hoc, sharing their screen in 24-bit, low-bandwidth consumption color during sales calls and product demonstrations or conduct truly collaborative and interactive whiteboard sessions and video/teleconferences. With a variety of annotation and highlighting tools at the hosts’ and selected attendees’ disposal, prepared meetings can be interpolated with questions from the audience through voice or chat. But, as some situations may warrant, hosts can mute speech and suspend chat, both public and private, and grant or suspend certain feature and tools privileges.
In addition to flexible pricing options and forward-thinking technological integration, GoToMeeting has several standout features, including:
GoToMeeting offers a degree of top-down program integration unlike any other. Users can integrate GoToMeeting with Microsoft Office products, as well as virtually every email and instant-messaging application. Whether you want to present PowerPoint slides, demonstrate software programs or conduct ad hoc whiteboard sessions, GoToMeeting presents a variety of media and multimedia in a real-time, delay-free setting. And, with advanced recording and playback tools, presentations can be viewed by audiences at a later time, even offline, and whiteboard sessions and meetings can be referenced at anytime.
Real-time functionality remains one of GoToMeeting’s greatest strengths. For web conferencing to truly be collaborative and interactive, latency and delay issues need to be kept in check. GoToMeeting succeeds in this regard, making rapid screen sharing and demonstrations possible, regardless of platform, browser or bandwidth, due in large part to its low-bandwidth consumption data compression.
One feature that makes a strong argument in GoToMeeting’s favor is the “change presenter” feature. With the click of a button entire, not just select, responsibilities and privileges can be given to another attendee. This feature makes meetings involving agendas longer than a single presentation easier to accommodate, reducing the meeting planning time and allowing hosts and attendees alike to improvise if and when necessary.
With simple, flat-rate pricing, GoToMeeting does away with virtually all of the invisible and associated costs that make other web conferencing programs deceptively expensive. Users can purchase monthly or annual plans, which allow for up to 15 attendees per meeting and require no licenses or fees for any of its users. Users can hold as many meetings as they want; there is no limited or surcharge to meetings.

Ask & Answer