DimDim Offers Free and Easy Web Conferencing February 12, 2010
Free Video Conferencing with DimDim
In today’s economy, consultants and small businesses are trying to do more with less…and in many ways they can. It used to be you had to buy a very expensive version of Adobe Acrobat in order to create your own pdf files. Setting up conference calls required access to corporate conference lines. Using an online meeting setup required access to a Webex account which cost valuable dollars every month. And utilizing video conferencing for those long-distance status calls on projects required a very expensive setup. No more….
I’d like to use this article and several upcoming articles to look at some ways that small businesses and consultants on shoestring budgets can perform some very necessary tasks for and look like corporate big-boys for little or no cash outlay. Our computing options have only improved and now the smaller organizations can really benefit from these offerings. For this article, I’d like to look at DimDim (www.dimdim.com), a free offering for video conferencing.
DimDim for Video Conferencing
As with any of these free offerings, there are premium options as well. DimDim offers a $25/month (DimDim Pro) option that allows for 50 meeting attendees, premium audio, and 2 webcams…among other features. And there is a $75/month (DimDim Webinar) option that 100 person meetings plus can accommodate events and webinars up to 1000 persons.
For consultants and small businesses trying to run your basic status call with the customer type video conference call, the basic free service should do just fine. It offers:
- 20 person meetings
- standard audio
- support for 1 webcam
- and did I mention that it’s free forever?
DimDim tout’s itself as the world’s easiest web conference. It is based on open source software and it is 100% browser-based so no software to load and maintain. You’ll be able to share whiteboards, webpages, presentations, files, voice, and video - and no downloads required…period.
Signup is also easy. You create your own ID, create your own password, give them your email address and your done. It’s yours…forever. If you feel that you might need - or want to just check out - their premium options, there is a 30-day trial offer to test those out…because of course they’d love you to try them and need them and pay monthly for them. But free is always nice, too.
