For this week, I would like to review the product Adobe Connect 8 for webmeetings. This because I just had an awsome webmeeting using it! And it what is more, it´s groupware in action!
The principle of Adobe Connect is quite simple: a system to support online meetings with a "real" meeting experience. The meeting has a moderator (or several of them), and invited guests that can log in to the meeting with a link. On the real-time meeting, you can watch and hear several colleges at once, share documents and written messages with them, and many other features that can be found on the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/web-meetings.html
In my opinion, what is more awsome of the system, is that opens an online space for groups to be formed. In my case, I had the first meeting with a new team with people located in Mexico and Spain. After two hours of meeting, we already had a group dynamic and strong agreements! even we were unfamiliar between each other, and located miles away!!
I think the features of this system are ideal for promoting the communication and the collaboration between teams in remote areas. In restrospective, I guess my feeling of groupal success after using the system, is due the sense of "sharing" the moment and space with my teammates, which was simply impossible to achieve by the "old-fashioned" emails and social media.
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