Affordable Web-based Meetings for Facilitators
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF
Managing Director, Leadership Strategies
We at Leadership Strategies recently entered into a partnership with Citrix® Online to offer a low-cost alternative for web-based meetings. Here's an extract of the press release.
For Immediate Release
$49 per month for unlimited web-based meetings? Finally, a low-cost alternative for running Web meetings!
Leadership Strategies is pleased to announce its new partnership with Citrix® Online, the makers of GoToMeeting™.
"GoToMeeting™ has easily made our teleconferences 50 percent more productive. And at $49 a month for unlimited usage for 10 simultaneous users, it's a no-brainer," said Michael Wilkinson, CEO of Leadership Strategies.
"We use GoToMeeting™ for management briefings so everyone can look at the same PowerPoint slides. We also use it for project team meetings and agenda planning sessions so everyone can see the same flip chart."
Citrix® Online offers a free 30-day trial. But when you sign-up through Leadership Strategies, in addition to the 30-day free trial you will receive $10 off your first month and free templates from Leadership Strategies that you can use for documenting status meetings, strategic planning, project planning, and process improvement sessions.
Try GoToMeeting™ free for 30 days + $10 off and get your free meeting templates.*
*When you sign-up through this special link, look for the web address for how to get the free templates! The meeting templates are yours to keep just for trying GoToMeetingTM. After the 30-day free trial, if you choose to continue to use GoToMeeting™, you will receive $10 off your first month.
Many of my facilitation assignments are out of town. I have found that few clients, and even fewer potential clients, are willing to cover the expense of flying me in for a one-hour pre-session briefing. For over a year I have been using GoToMeetingTM to help with situations like these. Two clients have been so impressed that they have implemented GoToMeeting™ for their organizations!
So after a year of being a walking billboard for GoToMeeting™, we decided to enter into a partnership with Citrix Online. So, in the interest of full disclosure, this means our organization does receive a one-time benefit when someone signs-up through us.
GoToMeeting™ provides a user-friendly environment and has the standard features that you would want, including the ability to do off-line chat, transfer control of the screen, and even change the screen that everyone is seeing to be someone else's computer. There is also a free conference service that you can use with GoToMeeting™ so that everyone is in on the same call. Or, as an option, you can pay $.10/minute per person for 800 toll-free service. If there is one downside that I have found, it is that GoToMeeting™ doesn't have the sophisticated multi-voting tools that some of its competitors have that are 20-times more expensive just for one meeting! But I can certainly live with that.
So if you have been reluctant to use web-based meetings because of the expense or the difficulty, try GoToMeeting™ free for 30 days + $10 off and get your free meeting templates. And don't forget to look for the web address for the free templates.
About the Author
Michael Wilkinson is the Managing Director of Leadership Strategies - The Facilitation Company and a much sought after trainer, facilitator and speaker. He is a Certified Master Facilitator and a Certified Professional Facilitator. As a national leader in the facilitation industry, Michael is a board member of the National Institute of Facilitation and a past president of the Southeast Association of Facilitators. You can find more tips from Michael in his recently released book, The Secrets to Masterful Meetings.
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