Mikogo - Alternative to GoToMeeting

This morning we had an important client conference and everyone was informed about the same. Our client had already sent us the Goto Meeting link and other required details.The team was ready for the meeting at the given time. It was planned that we will use GoTo Meeting for screen sharing and use skype for voice.

However at the said time, we got a message from the client that there was some problem with their VPN connectivity and the Goto Meeting link is not working. He asked if we had any other alternative. Someone from the team suggested to try this new tool Mikogo.

Mikogo from Skype
Mikogo is a free tool which provides an easy-to-use online meeting tool, equipped with valuable features to ensure the perfect desktop sharing experience.


During a meeting, users are able to:
1. Share each others’ screens.
2. Switch presenter – let a meeting participant share their own screen.
3. Access remote keyboard and mouse control – the current presenter may grant control of their screen to another user at any time.
4. Transfer files – the organizer and guests can send files of up to 200MB to each other
5. Select applications - Got an open application which is not required for the meeting? Select to hide it.
6. Pause transmission – take a meeting break and suspend the transfer of screen data.

So finally we gave the download link to our client and we also downloaded the tool and after an easy step of user creation and activation, we were ready to go. Our client had already initated the meeting and we joined his meeting using the meeting id. Our meeting went perfectly well and we all were happy that Mikogo saved us . I would recommend this tool to everyone who are always doing web meetings and web presentations. It is simply great and the best thing is, it is absolutely FREE.

To Download Mikogo, visit http://skype.mikogo.com

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July 9, 2009. Technical Talks. 3 Comments.

3 Comments

  1. Andrew Donnelly replied:

    Hi Asha,

    Thanks for blogging about Mikogo. And great to hear that Mikogo saved your day :-)
    If you have a moment and your interested, please feel free to swing by our blog and leave a comment linking to your blog post on Mikogo for others to read: http://www.mikogo.com/en/blog/

    Cheers!

    Andrew
    The Mikogo Team
    Twitter: @Mikogo

    July 10th, 2009 at 12:27 am. Permalink.

  2. Jasmin replied:

    Hi,
    have you ever heard about TeamViewer? TeamViewer is a remote control and desktop sharing solution of the TeamViewer GmbH in Germany (http://www.teamviewer.com). TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control a partners desktop to give online assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer - all without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT. TeamViewer also has a lot of other features. All this is free for personal use. Find out why more than 15.000.000 users trust TeamViewer!

    All the best,
    Jasmin
    TeamViewer GmbH Germany

    July 13th, 2009 at 6:12 am. Permalink.

  3. Kelsey C replied:

    I don’t think our company has used Mikogo, but we definitely are using an application called RHUB Web Conferencing. RHUB has a lot of the same features as you listed above.

    January 26th, 2010 at 5:52 pm. Permalink.

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