Online Desktop Sharing for Small Business

Do you have team members, colleagues, suppliers or customers who are offsite or located in other parts of the country or world that you want to share information with or conduct meetings with and you don’t have the time, money or need to get together in person? Do you want to conduct an online meeting without installing software on your computer or servers? How about allowing your online meeting attendees to be able to share their mouse or keyboard to allow for live collaboration? Do you want to host webinars? What about conducting virtual training? Do you want to share files? There are more and more online desktop sharing applications that allow you to do all of these things without installing any software. The great news for small business is that some of these services are free. Here’s a list of some of these fee-for-service and free-service providers:

Yugma: http://www.yugma.com/
Share your mouse and keyboard (remote control); not just for tech support
Use an online whiteboard and allow meeting participants to make comments or edit work in progress
Record your meeting
Share files
Compatible with Skype
Fee-based professional service with subscriptions allowing you to connect with 20, 100 or 500 attendees

LiveLOOK: http://www.livelook.net/
Share your screen but not your mouse or keyboard
Per Minute Plan: $0.025/minute/participant for up to 100 participants
Monthly Plan: $39.99/month (U.S.): includes 15 participants per session but can allow up to 100 participants

TeamViewer: http://www.teamviewer.com/
Remote control for tech support
Share your screen (e.g. for product demos and presentations)
File transfer
6-Month Use Term, premium packages available

Mikogo 1.0: http://www.mikogo.com/
Free
Host online meetings with up to 10 users simultaneously
Screen sharing plus remote control of keyboard and mouse
File transfer

Dimdim: http://www.dimdim.com/
Audio/video/screen sharing
Free for up to 20 participants
Professional product starting at $99/year for more than 20 participants

Vyew: http://vyew.com/
Free for 20 participants with ads. Plus pricing starts at $6.95/mo for up to 25 participants, 5 with no ads. Professional pricing starts at $13.95/mo for up to 45 participants, 15 with no ads.
Show your desktop in real-time and show your cursor (e.g. point to something on your screen); no remote control
Screen capture, whiteboarding tools
Upload files and collaborate
Broadcast your video with your webcam

Here’s a couple more:
WebHuddle: http://www.webhuddle.com/
Lotus Unyte: http://www.unyte.net/
HelpMeetingPresenter: http://www.hostpresentation.com/