Online Meeting tools

A roundup from just this week's news in the area of online meetings shows up just how diverse the online meetings space is becoming.

Packatel's Turbo meeting was picked out by TMC as a stand out solution for small businesses that want to meet online, coming in at less than $25.00 per month for a three user system.

"designed for users who have basic desktop computer and Web browsing skills, but do not have the time to engage in specialty training to gain more complex knowledge in order to participate in online meetings."

Meanwhile French construction company Bouygues has announced its adoption of Saba Centra and Jet Multimedia hosting services for its online meetings and training subsidiary, Structis.

Structis uses web conferencing and e-learning platform to conduct more effective meetings and reduce training and meeting related travel costs.

Saba people management solutions are used by more than 1,200 organizations and over 17 million end users worldwide and the company has over 50% of the Fortune 100 as clients.

Jet Management - what a great name - is a European hosting service. It began life as Jet Lag, not a name they necessarily want to be reminded of.

Meantime we know the big players in FMCG are also in this space. Diageo and Unilever are both working with IBM on online meeting spaces in Second Life.

And pressure grows on companies to go virtual with their meetings. In Toronto Tuesday a new city-backed product that allows companies to calculate their carbon footprint.... its use?

"The site will feature links to environmental meetings and activities, like Earth Hour, and places where people can sign up for car pools." And no doubt find those online meeting products that will help bring the carbon down.