Hi Robert,
for business subjects I have been using hot conference for 2 years doing presentations. Hotconference at a hole ist quite good and satisfying. We had a lot of technical problems by very often being thrown out. Once we were in there with 70 people and all of a sudden were kicked off all at the same moment. But that's something you can live with. You never know how stabil dsl is that day or how stabil are the servers. These rooms are very good regarding the amount of participants. You can be in there without any trouble with more than 200 people at once.
There is only one thing you cannot in there, and that is, what counts when you use them for presentations. Flash presentations won't work, loading time is extremly long and depending on the different PC's of the participants very different in the time uploading. You have to use websites, animated Powerpoint Presentations do not work at all there. There is one fact, which forced us to give up these rooms: You have to install the software, and a lot of customers really had probelms with this, because their computers were equipped in so many different ways.
Since 2 months I have been working with Bozzoo now. The advantage: These rooms are just great for trainings. You do not have to install anything. Just give your participant the link and they can enter the room. You can upload a lot of Powerpointpresentations. So if somebody was not able to attend a training lesson, he can enter the romms, whenever he likes and go thru the different presentations and learn and practice as long as he wants to.
We try to have the room occupied the whole day for anybody who has a question and wants to get a quick answer. If you are not able to be in the room at this very moment, there is a bell, and the student can ring for the speaker, who in the meantime is doing his work, sending music to the room to enjoy people who come their to relax a little while. You even can send the speaker an e-mail, if he is not at his PC at that moment and does not hear the bell ringing. These Bozzoo rooms are realy good for presentations, trainings and just communication. Bozzoo has a lot more features to be used, which I do not know yet. You can rent a room for trial free of charge and afterwards make up your mind.
We have about 6 rooms in permanent use and three of them are always working simultaneously: One for French, one for German and one for the rest of the world in English, of course the lastone is occupied 24 hours a day due to the different times across the world.
If anybody of you is interested to enter one of the rooms, just get in contact with me, and we will arrange to meet there.
You can contact me between 3 p.m. and 2.a.m. MEZ. Find the contacts here:
Warm regards to all of you
Renate