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Webinar Software Review

So you want to host a webinar. You have your content, you have your clients but haven’t yet figured out the tool you’ll use to pull it all together? This post will review several tools that will help you deliver a smooth and powerful webinar. Consider the following factors when selecting the tool that is right for you:

• The number of people you will invite to the meeting.
• Will you need to record the meeting?
• Will you need to offer a replay of the webinar?
• Do ad papera on the site and does this matter to you when considering your audience?
• What features will you need for people to interact and participate?
• What is your monthly budget?

These are some of my favorite webinar tools:

DimDim.com is a browser-based web 2.0 webinar service that makes it easy for anyone to deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet - with no download required. Users can share their desktop, show slides, chat and broadcast via webcam. There is a free version and the Pro version costs $25 per month.

Vyew.com is a cool browser based webinar tool that is FREE forever. Users pay for special features. The free version does have ads but they are not obtrusive. The webinar is persistent (always on) and the user has great flexibility and control over the webinar experience.

FuzeMeeting.com is a web conferencing tool that lets you share everything on your screen in high resolution with anyone, anywhere, on any device. It is a nice tool in that it allows HD content to be shared and they offer a “Meetings by the Day” price of $9.99 for up to 15 attendees. Fuze also offers a low priced monthly plan.

GoToMeeting.com is a Web conferencing tool that allows you to meet online rather than in a conference room. They are one of the key leaders in the industry and offer a high quality solution.

Skype.com is often thought of as a phone, chat and video sharing solution but did you know you can also share your screen for FREE? This solution may work for a webinar depending on how many people you are trying to connect with.

The tools I happen to use the most are Vyew, Skype and Dim Dim. If you have a tool you love to use that wasn’t included in this review, post your comment below and share it with me. If you use any of the tools above and have had a good experience, please share that with our community as well.

Free Lifetime Backup for GMail, Facebook & Twitter

If you are like many internet users, you use a lot of social networking sites, photo sharing sites, blog sites and cloud services. You probably backup the data on your computer regularly but what would happen to you or your business if all of a sudden you lost access to one or several of your online accounts? Could you still do business or communicate with the people you work with?

We have content and connections spread out all over the web and while many of the services we use have their own backup in place, it would reduce a lot of stress to know that all of your information from your Facebook friends list to your WordPress blog posts and comments were safely backed up in a lifestream cloud.

Backupify is a lifestream cloud backup service and what is exciting is that until January 31, 2010 they are offering FREE lifetime backup for your cloud content.

I recently lost my email data and it took my email hosting company three weeks to get my mailbox back working again. It was painful and frustrating not being able to do business as usual. It would have been helpful working with a company that specializes in backups when I was faced with this crisis.

Backupify works to backup all your online account data in one place and allows you to connect it with all of your online accounts so your backups are created automatically.

Here are the services Backupify currently supports:

• Flickr
• Twitter
• Delicious
• Zoho
• Google Docs
• Photobucket
• WordPress
• Basecamp (beta)
• Gmail (beta)
• Facebook (beta)
• FriendFeed (beta)
• Blogger (beta)
• Hotmail (beta)

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