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How does cutting back on your business travel expenses sound? Netviewer Meet is the newest product on our review, and is also the most promising. With simple functionality and quick navigation, you’ll be saving travel and presentation time. This product allows many people to view the same screen as they participate in discussions. It is fast, easy and very effective. This is clearly the best web conferencing service on the market. Viewing PowerPoint presentations or web browsing—doesn’t matter—it’s all crystal clear for each viewer.

We ranked this product #1 because it is the only service that we felt deserved a perfect score for ease of use. The other services had little corks that could easily lead to complications, such as inviting other participants.

Conferencing Features:

Netviewer Meet has all of the important tools that one requires when hosting a web conference session. The host takes the lead throughout the session, but can easily give the reins over to anyone participating in the session. This person may now browse the internet, change slides or even add content into excel spreadsheets.

The setup process can be done without difficulty. After purchasing the software, the user creates an account on my.netviewer.com. Through this website you can customize your personal settings, access the support center, edit your contact information, view attendees to your web conferences and much more. Users will start web conferences through this site as well.

The hosts of the meeting may then invite multiple users to join the session. Joining the session is hassle-free. After going to the netviewer website, users will click on “Join a session” icon in the top-right corner. The session number and name of the person is then requested. It’s that easy. The new participants can now view the screen of the web conferencing host in full-screen or partial-screen mode.

Presentation/Demonstration Features:

The ability to broadcast the host’s screen is where Netviewer Meet shines the most. Every person in the meeting views what the host allows others to view. The host can turn on and off the applications that his computer is currently using. Keep in mind that participants can only view what the host sees. Permission must be granted by the host for participants to be able to touch the desktop. The whiteboard can then be turned on or off.

The host has many tools that help the meetings run smoothly. They can view their own monitor, which is the screen that everyone else sees, to be sure that participants see what is intended. Hosts can also see all the participants that have web cams. They can move the web cam screens throughout their monitor, which may clear up certain areas on the desktop. Keep in mind that Netviewer can work on as many monitors as the computer is setup to use.

The participants have many tools to be sure that their participation is easily recognized. By clicking or dragging their mouse, a color coordinated arrow appears on the host’s screen. This may be useful when a participant wants to clarify or point to something for the host to see. When using the whiteboard, each participant has their own color. This helps the host and other participants know who made the hi-light or comment.

The chat sessions are very customizable. Participants and hosts can chat with specific people privately, or address the entire group in the meeting.

The cherry-on-top feature is transferring files through the web conference. All the host needs to do is click on the file or document and drag it into the area for file sharing. It’s that easy, click and drag. It is then accessible by all the participants.