Join.me – The Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings Tool
As a professional blogger there may be many situations where you want a client or a tech support company to connect to your computer to show how to do something, or to make changes in order to fix a problem you’re having. Join.me, at its most basic level, is free, flash-enabled screen-sharing software. It allows a Presenter to make a quick connection with a Viewer(s) to permit screen-sharing.
Join.me makes collaboration a breeze
The basic free app makes collaboration a breeze; setting up conference calls is incredibly quick, with no sign-up required. The presenter simply heads to the join.me site and hits the “Share” button to start their conference. The join.me application will download and run automatically. The presenter is then given a unique join.me URL that can be sent to everyone invited to participate in the conference. Even the URL is easy to remember and it makes perfect sense when you consider that this is a screen sharing / free conference call tool.
The most useful feature of Join.me is that you can let one participant at a time control your screen. To share control, click the mouse button and then select a viewer. You can still control your own screen.
To connect to someone’s screen, go to join.me and then Type their 9 digit number into the join box and Press Enter. There is no download, it just opens up in your browser. When viewing someone else’s screen join.me is entirely reliant on only your web browser. It even supports browser zoom, so you can make it as big or small as you like within your window.
Connecting to others screen just need inputting a 9 digit code
Other features of Join.me
- Chat – You can send private messages to specific people or can send message to all participants. This is a really useful feature.
- Pause – The presenter can pauses the screen in case he needs to do something on his computer the others don’t need to see
- File Exchange – The presenter can share a file with the group
What I don’t like about Join.me
No Recording feature – One of the benefits of having an online meeting is the ability to record the session. Unfortunately, Join.Me doesn’t offer this feature yet. But other web conferencing services like GoToMeeting (it is a paid service) allow you to record the meeting right to your desktop.
Weak security – In the free version of Join.me anybody can join any meeting. All they need is the 9 digit code to join. But in the PRO version it has a “lock” feature. When locked the viewers have to knock to enter. You can decide who can join.
Despite these few disadvantages Join.me is a very useful tool and it will make your online collaboration a lot easier. If you haven’t tried this service yet, then you should.
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Hello rojish, After such a long time i have seen your own article on this website. one simple question how does this application is different with TeamVewier as this is the default application we are right now using on our computers.
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I got busy with some other works and so was in a long blogging break
Anyway I am back now. Coming to your question Join.me is like team viewer but much more user friendly and fast. One of the biggest advantage I found in join.me over team viewer is that the viewers need not download or install any apps. They can view our screen inside their browser. For example consider a situation like this – your are explaining troubles to your hosting support staff. You can’t ask them to install team viewer on their computer (most probably they will not do that), but since Join.me completely works inside their browser and have all features of team viewer it is more suited in such situations.
Thanks for your comment Rakesh
Yea, I agree… Sometimes I feel like I need team viewer to help my friend in installing team viewer!
Now I can use this instead of team viewer. Thanks for sharing.
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Haha, good one! I also feel like that quite often with a lot of my friends and relatives!
-Jean
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hello rojish
nice software i was nt aware of it really going to download it thnx for the info
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It seems Join.me is similar like Team viewer. But new bloggers will definitely benefited from it
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Here’s another option for screen sharing, it’s pretty popular too:
-Oovoo
I’ve been using it lately, it’s just as good as skype. Skype strangely only has screen sharing between Mac computers.
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There’s only so many features you can get for free isn’t it. nevertheless, Join.me is perfect for those one-off situations where you need to help or get help with a tech issue. Nice find.
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Hi Rojish, This is something that I am surely gonna give a try. Thanks for share such different and useful information.
Join.me sounds new to me. I want to have a try of this on how it works. There is always an advantage or disadvantage of that certain thing probably Join.me..
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That is so true, Rojish. Really grateful to you for sharing the Join.me with all of us here. One thing I learned before I became a bestselling author and long before Inc Magazine voted my company as one of the fastest growing companies is that at times these programs really help, at times you are stuck in a situation where you would want an expert to access your machine from a remote location.. I had used programs like team-viewer and few others. This one looks far better than team-viewer.
Great article, interesting tool, thanks for sharing this with us Rojish.
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thank you rojish
its very helpful for my team
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Really, its a great tool. And after a long time , post from You Rojish…
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Hi bro, you just made me know an other tool which also had call service in it. Thanks for sharing. But its most similar to team viewer.
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join me is awesome, better than team viewer. Thanks rojish for sharing. I should tweet this.
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Rojish, I couldn’t agree with you more about this software, JOIN ME the free screen sharing and online meeting tool.
My father is retired and decided one of his new pastimes is learning Windows 7. Actually, my new waste of time is supporting Windows 7….lol
Thanks to Join Me, I can just log in and clear out his print que for the 1 millionth time this week!
-Joe
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