Flash Meeting

This web conferencing facility that is made freely available by the Open University started as an academic project and turned successful for use by Academics at OU and others online.

http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/home.html

What's really cool about it is ...

• Takes numerous participants;
• Allows multiple interventions like in a physical meeting;
• Easy to administer and set up;
• Coordinates the meeting by ensuring only 1 "live" speaker at a time ... Rarely happens in a civilized meeting :)
• Others can book an intervention and a queuing system is set up to be fair with all;
• Logs the entire meeting and makes it available online;
• Can rerun the entire meeting to make notes or check out a particular issue;
• Can experience the meeting if you were not able to attend;
• Allows running chat in parallel with video & audio;
• Allows common board for participants to interactively sketch and communicate;
• Allows file upload for participants to share resources;
• Allows URL submission and loading of the website onto the interface;
• Provides a common projection screen for participants to load presentations, images or other visual stuff for all others to see while doing an intervention.

Some screen shots ...

The main interface 

Participants queued up to do their intervention ...

And finally a rerun of a recorded session with individual participants' intervention statistics ...