Web Conferencing Not Just For Corporations Anymore

Lots of companies have caught on to the idea of web conferencing as a cost saver and contributor to green initiatives. The word is spreading outside the business world.

Last week I attended a web conference for a local group promoting a Presidential candidate (to keep business and politics separate, I'll keep the identity of the candidate to myself). The group chose GoToMeeting for their web conference in combination with a toll-call phone conferencing service. This approach was very typical of the tech-savvy profile of this particular campaign.

I've corresponded with other non-profits about web conferencing and many of them just can't get past the paradigm of "meeting in person." With the economy in free fall and an ever increasing focus on our ecology, I'm hoping more and more non-business entities will consider web conferencing as an alternative to travel and time consuming meetings.

Ecademy Update

A week or so ago I wrote about my disappointment with some restrictions that the social network ecademy.com had placed on its membership.

I'm happy to report that ecademy has changed the way members connect to other members. The old system of connecting by sending a message has been abandoned and now there is a special "connect" function which is open to all members, paid or not.

Free members still cannot initiate messages (although they can reply to them) but now at least free members can grow their network, which is as I said in my last post, the whole point of a social networking system.

Kudos to ecademy for seeing the light!