One of the aspects of innovation is gathering and storing knowledge from different employees and stimulating teamwork. More and more, the meetings involved with these activities need to be performed from different geological locations. Web meeting software offers a good solution to organize these place-independent meetings.

Last week I stumbled across Dimdim, an open source company that offers free web meeting software. With their service you can share your desktop, share slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam all in your browser. No application instalation is needed (Software as a Service or SaaS), just like with the service of their competitor Webex. However, the fact that it is free gives it a big advantage over services like Webex. Within two weeks they will also support desktop sharing for Mac, so we’ll have to wait for the next release to do a full test. It does look promising though.