I will be conducting some learning modules this month and need your webconferencing recommendations. What services do you or your clients currently like/use? Or, have you been on a webinar recently where you liked the webconferencing interface? If so, what were they using?

Here is the snag I’ve been running into. In the past, we’ve used GoToWebinar which allows plenty of room for attendees (GoToMeeting only allows up to 25 attendees, if I remember correctly).  GoToWebinar was fine when all we were doing was conducting webinars, but I now need something for conducting classes and it just doesn’t cut it. I never really liked the interface. For one thing, attendees couldn’t see who other attendees were. Plus, you can’t unmute everyone all at once. You have to unmute each attendee individually and then, you are only allowed to have 25 attendees unmuted at one time. This is a problem because what I’m using it for is an interactive class and I need for people to simply be able to talk without having to go through a bunch of rigamarole.

The workaround is to use our own bridgeline, but then (since I want all the classes recorded), GoToWebinar can’t record the audio portion. I could try to integrate the audio and video together later using Camtasia, but that’s just an irritating extra step/work that I’d prefer not to have. So that just isn’t going to work.

So here’s what I need in a webconferencing service:

1. It must provide screensharing, not simply file sharing (CoolConferenceLive only provides file sharing, not screensharing, if I’m correct).

2. A conference line that allows everyone to be unmuted all at once and not have restrictions.

3. Ability to record everything (audio & video).

4. Ability for attendees to see who other attendees are.

5. Support at least 50-100 attendees.

I could really use your recommendations stat!