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Lisa and I recently hosted a small online meeting using DimDim. DimDim is an Open Source web conferencing tool. As with all open source software it is freely available for use. In fact, the DimDim people go a step further and will allow you to host conferences using their software on their website for free.
DimDim provides a collaborative area where people can interact using chats (public and private), whiteboards, document displays (for presentations, pdfs etc.) and a follow-me website viewer. You can invite people to join and give them access to resources such as microphones and cameras (assuming they have them of course).
The free version of DimDim limits you to 20 participants, 1 camera and 3 microphones. However, for many small businesses this won't be an issue. In fact, unless you use strict control over the camera and microphone tools, I can see people's bandwidth being swamped with more than one camera or several microphones being used at once.
Prior to finding DimDim we were using an online chat program which was ok but limited in scope and usability. I think we will be using DimDim a lot in the future.
[Edit July 2011 We had a paid service with Dimdim. Unfortunately Dimdim was sold and the new owners closed it down as it competed directly with one of their products].
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