Web Collaboration, Conferencing or Meetings?
Posted by Steve Chazin on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 @ 02:36 PM
I've been trying to determine what category our product lives in. Is it web conferencing software? Is this more about virtual meeting rooms or web-based meetings? What do you think? The noun has changed a couple of times - look to the right of this page and you see a badge that says Dimdim: Web Conferencing. But look at other parts of our site and you'll see we refer to it as Dimdim: Web Meeting.
I just don't think any of those terms do justice. When you are having an IM chat with someone on AIM or using Skype to have an audio call do you think of the "place" you are both at as a meeting? When you share your screen to a classroom of students are you holding a conference? These are all forms of collaboration, but do you even think of the word "collaboration" while you are doing it? And since Dimdim can do all of the above (and a whole lot more) are we selling it short by not calling it something else. Is this a "Collaboration Suite" or a "Communication Toolbox" or something else?
What term should we use? I'm all ears.