Join.me: the easiest way to organize a web conference

Imagine the situation: Call your friend, he has a problem with the computer and it asks you for advice. You, of course, happy to help, but it's difficult because you have to give advice based on his oral description of the problem and his own imagination. It would be much easier if you can see the screen and were able to manage it from your computer.

Naturally already, there are many programs and services that can help you organize web conferences, but Join.me, perhaps the easiest to use. Product released by LogMeIn and LogMeIn Express used to be called.

How to start a web conference

All you need to do is to start a web conference - come on site Join.me (The service runs on both Windows OS and under Mac OS) and click the orange button «share». Registration is not required to register should only be the case if you want to use a paid version, which features a little bit more, and everyone there sviristelok.

After clicking on «share», your computer will boot a small java-application, that it will be the main interface when working with Web Conferencing.

After the download is complete, open the app and in the address bar you'll see a few numbers that indicate the number of the current web conference. The address bar is called the «viewer link». You can copy the line to the clipboard and use this number later or immediately send an email to the person who should join your conference. The number will change every time you start a new conference.

Now you can start a conference.

Under the address bar has five buttons: get the conference room, chat, start / stop the joint viewing screen, the participants share the screen.

How to join a conference

Join the conference is also very simple. In the green box on the main page Join.me to be inserted in the field sent by the organizer of the conference room and click the arrow. All who have a number of the current conference, will be able to join.

After that, immediately open the conference window. You can see that on the side of the color green buttons participants of the conference. All buttons except the middle, the same destination.

In the fourth button shows the number of participants by clicking on it, you can see the list of participants. His name can be edited by clicking on it twice. The names of the other participants can not be edited.

How to use join.me

If you are the organizer of the conference and you are available for viewing multiple screens, you can select which of them share the other participants. To do this you need to click on the little arrow on the right.

In the chat, you can send messages to all or just one party, selecting its name in the drop-down list at the bottom of the chat box.

You can also send files to the participants. Click on the button "Participants" and move the cursor to the desired name. The right of the name you will see three icons, click on the average need.

To allow participants to control your computer, click the button «Share control», and select one of the names. Operate a computer can only those participants who joined the conference by using the computer, those who came from a mobile device, can only view the screen.

How to participate in a web conference from a mobile device

While join.me app is only for the iPhone and iPad, but the developers promise that will soon be Android-version.

After you download and install iOS-applications, insert the line number and press the green button.

Disable shared screen is displayed on the screen of your device. The mobile version is available only three buttons: conference room, chat participants.

This option is good when the participant with a mobile phone only to make recommendations, and there is no need to remotely control the computer.

How to end the conference

To end the conference, you need to click on the arrow. In the box you will be asked to install an application on your computer so that next time do not take the time to download it.

In general, join.me - perfect service to quickly organize a web conference, of course, if you have a fast internet connection.

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Listen to the story about the service Join.me in 47th edition of the podcast "42".