The tool of the trade that was chosen for me to research was Online Screen Sharing websites. Join.me is one of these “online screen sharing” sites, which we had used when we presented remotely for class on March 9th. We created a username and were able to get a code to send to the professor (or up to ten people) in order for us to connect on the site. After connecting on the site with the code, we were able to present our presentations from our own computers, while he was able to see it from his. This was possible with the free version of the site, but with the paid version can do a lot more. With the paid version, you can host more people and you can even transfer your screen to other participants computers so they can present from their own computers, but still use the same presentation.
Other “online screen sharing” sites that I found in my research, besides Appear.in which was provided to me by the professor; were GotoMeeting, ScreenLeap, FreeConference, MingleView, Spreed, FreeScreenSharing and Google+ Hangouts. Although there are many other “online screen sharing sites”, I decided to just share these since I was able to get information about each of these from one site. All of these sites require you to create a username and password, but none off hand ask for any type of payment. All of the sites that I mentioned before have free trials (usually up to 30 days), but you can always upgrade for a fee and be able to do more within the sites. Each site allows to you to connect to more than one person at a time, but only if you upgrade can you connect to even more people. With upgrades you can share your screen with others, like with join.me, which allows them to present from their own computers and access the presentation.
“Online screen sharing” sites are good tools in the designing industry because it means that you can connect with clients and people of your team, even if you aren’t face to face with each other. Being able to do this would allow any critiques or changes to be done almost immediately since you are not traveling to and from the meeting.
I personally think this is a good tool to use in business, as a designer and in life itself. I’ve honestly suggested this to my internship supervisor and we have used join.me on two occasions now, which is a lot more helpful than emails, since I mainly work remotely for my internship. I would suggest more businesses and people use this tool because it makes the tediousness of meetings so much easier.
