Dec 05 2006
New Technology: Screen-sharing
I stumbled across an interesting post on screen sharing on Robin Good’s site. The Robin Good site really functions like an aggregator of new technologies for those interested in the business of marketing and promotion. Don’t be put off by it – as we’ve said before on this site, it’s those organisations which understand and embrace new technologies who will better engage their stakeholders and prosper.
Screen-sharing allows users to share the contents of their screen with anyone else in real-time, and has interesting implications for us in the voluntary/non-profit sector in that it has the potential to make the holy grail of ‘online collaboration’ and ‘e-learning‘ that we all talk about much easier. For example, screen-sharing could make it easier for circuit riders to deliver online tech support to smal groups, guiding the end user through various steps to a solution.
If you want to read up some more on screen-sharing, check out Infoworld lead analyst and Test Center blogger in chief, Jon Udell , who recently complained about screen sharing tools being too complicated and feature-rich. His request was for new tools to do one thing only while doing it very well.
My usual coda applies:
Does anyone out there use screen-sharing? And if so, which product do you use and how useful has screen-sharing been in your work?
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