The document discusses the web conferencing solution provided by Dimdim. It highlights key features such as presentation sharing, audio/video, application sharing, polls, and archiving. These features allow for online meetings and collaboration without needing to be in the same physical location. The solution works across platforms and without firewall configuration. Examples of use cases mentioned are sales/CRM, eLearning, and remote collaboration.
3. Features and bene?ts: brainstorming.
? Chat
In todays business environment with globally distributed
As in any real world meeting there will be sub-groups of
workforce, it is not realistic to have face-to-face meetings
people engaged in conversation and exchange of ideas
with all participants present in one place. Dimdims web
(some serious ones others more like kicks under the
conferencing solution enables you to conduct online meet-
table) within the larger assembly in a web conference.
ings over the internet easily and economically. This leads
This is facilitated through the multi-user chat feature.
to productivity gains and increased Return on Investment
as your attention is focused on where it should be - on
? Polls
conducting your business - and Dimdim takes care of the
Polls enable the presenter to gauge the mood of the par-
rest.
ticipants and to take decisions considering the opinions of
many.
Why is Dimdims web conferencing solution
better? ? Question manager
Question manager which is like a moderated Q&A setup
Dimdim is browser based software ensuring that attendees enables the presenter to better manage the interaction.
need not install anything on their computers. This leads
to platform agnostic usage. Dimdim also works seamlessly ? Record and Archive
without any ?rewall or proxy con?guration. Dimdim offers All the interaction is recorded and archived for sharing
a comprehensive feature set at a price point much lower with non-attendees and to reach a broader audience.
than the industry standard.
Scenarios of usage
? Presentation and Document sharing
Interactive realtime collaboration over documents and
Sales/CRM and eLearning
presentations allows enhanced expression and exchange
of ideas.
Sales
Dimdim integrates with most CRM software (like Sugar-
? Audio and video sharing
CRM) to give a single click seamless usage experience
High-quality multi-party video and audio sharing can be
for users who can setup & conduct web conferences for
used to personalize meetings with a face-to-face ap-
presentations or demos through the CRM software itself.
proach.
eLearning
? Application sharing
Teachers can conduct classes as web conferences so that
Full screen as well as speci?c application sharing from a
physical presence of the teacher as well as students is
Presenters computer can be used to show and educate
not necessary. Also the archived sessions can be used by
even a novice audience. This is in keeping with the show,
students for later reference as well by the teacher as a
dont tell principle.
teaching tool. Integrated packages of Dimdim and popu-
lar eLearning software like Moodle, Sakai and dotLRN are
? White board and Annotations
available.
Realistic interactive collaboration which involves a lot of
annotations, corrections, group drawing (and doodles in
the margin) is enabled through digital whiteboard and an-
notations feature of Dimdim. These features are possible
on existing documents too leading to seamless distributed
Supported Platforms About Dimdim
Attendees: Windows (XP/2000) and Red Hat Linux with Internet Dimdim is based out of Boston, USA, Ottawa, Canada
Explorer 6.x and FireFox 1.5 and Hyderabad, India. For more information please
email info@dimdim.com. For sales details please email
Presenters: Windows (XP/2000) with Internet Explorer 6.x
sales@dimdim.com while for partnership queries please email
partners@dimdim.com
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