When you sell a technical product it really helps to be able to demonstrate how it works to potential clients. In the past this meant lots of face-to-face meetings--with all the attendant travel. We still do face-to-face meetings but thanks to screen casting applications we can do many more demos than we possibly could if we had to do them all face-to-face. Until recently, we used WebEx. But they were a little bit expensive and required everyone who participated in the screen cast to download and install the WebEx client software. Adobe Connect, on the other hand, only requires the presenter to install software. Viewers simply log in via the web and see our screen in their browser. And it's much less expensive than WebEx.

Vyew is another screen cast web conferencing system that has a free option and has no software to install. We played with it and found that the quality wansn't quite as good as Adobe's. I am keeping my eye on Vyew, since free is an attractive price point.   next >