About Web Conferencing

Web Conferencing allows participants (either face to face or remotely)  to

• instant message each other
• review the meeting agenda and documents
• follow presentations and raise their hands in order to make comments.

in a virtual meeting room over the Internet.

 

Adobe Connect 

ICANN and the At-Large community primarily uses the Adobe Connect solution (http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html) to do its web conferencing. Using this tool effectively is important to anyone wanting to participate in At-Large Working Groups and your Regional At-Large Organisations (RALO) conference calls.

Read more about Adobe Connect 

The TTF is researching plugins for Adobe Connect to further enhance/improve the benefits of conference calls for At-Large.

 

LUCID Meetings

The TTF has held several meetings with LucidMeetings  (http://www.lucidmeetings.com/), a cloud based conferencing solution, since its use was being used internally at ICANN. The TTF used LUCID for its WG calls from late 2013 to mid 2014, before returning to Adobe Connect.

Other web conferencing solutions

Several TTF members has mentioned other tools for consideration for use by At-Large Structures and/or for use by At-Large WGs. Several of these are being evaluated.

See Comparison of webconferencing solutions page.

Suggestions included:

• Cisco WebEx (suggested by Yaovi Atohoun) : http://www.webex.com/ ; See http://webconferencingstore.com/webex-vs-adobe-connect/ for a comparision of WebEx 
• BlueJeans (http://bluejeans.com/)
• BigBlueButton (Suggested by Gordon Chillcott) http://www.bigbluebutton.org/) is a open source server with many similiar features to Adobe Connect.
• ReadyTalk (http://www.readytalk.com/) (suggested by Glenn McKnight)
• Jitsi : https://jitsi.org/