Finally, a cost-effective, easy-to-use online meeting solution for any business!

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Easily hold on-the-fly or scheduled presentations, perform live demos and collaborate on documents in real time. Clients and coworkers don’t need your application to view your files. Even files created with specialized applications, such as CAD drawings, are viewable.

Start a Meeting in Minutes.
Just use the GoToMeeting icon in your system tray, an email or an instant message. There are no complicated logins or setups. It takes just 2 minutes to set up and a few seconds to start a meeting. That’s it! GoToMeeting Free Trial

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Meet as often as you want, for as long as you want – for one low rate. Try it for FREE for 15 days and experience the simplest and most cost-effective online meeting solution on the market today.

How It Works

Online meetings have never been easier, more cost effective and more productive. Getting started with GoToMeeting couldn't be simpler, so follow these steps and

1. Create an Account
Register online by creating a username and password for your account. Once registered, you'll be able to host an unlimited number of online meetings with anyone. Your meeting attendees don't have to be GoToMeeting registered users and can attend your meetings for free. Refer to the My Account page to obtain online billing history, view plan information and modify account information.

2. Set Up GoToMeeting on Your PC
The automatic setup takes seconds, and no configuration is required. GoToMeeting will download to your PC and enable you to host and join online meetings with a few clicks. Begin by hosting a meeting through the GoToMeeting Web site, via Microsoft® Outlook® and through instant messenger applications.

3. Organize a Meeting
Even novices can begin organizing on-the-fly or scheduled meetings with absolutely no training. You can start a meeting immediately or schedule it for later. Begin presenting and sharing applications or documents with your business contacts across the country or with your colleagues down the hall.

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GoToMeeting makes it extremely easy to begin meeting online. Your meeting attendees will easily join your meetings in seconds because no pre-loaded software is required and no configuration is necessary; they participate as your guests, at no cost to you.

Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit

Desktop Viewing Enhance meetings by showing attendees any application and file on your desktop. Attendees can share their desktops, too.

Share Keyboard and Mouse Control Securely collaborate with colleagues on projects by working together in real time.

Email and Instant-Messaging Integration Start scheduled or spontaneous meetings from Microsoft® Outlook® or various instant-messaging services.

Chat Chat with all attendees or converse privately with a specific participant.

Free Voice Conferencing Service Set up meetings quickly using a single number for both the access code and voice conferencing service.

Security

GoToMeeting is the most secure online meeting product available. Meetings cannot be viewed by anyone except meeting attendees.

Feature Benefit

End-to-End Encryption Industry-standard SSL and U.S. government- standard 128-bit AES encryption protect your online meetings from eavesdroppers.

User Authentication Strong passwords and unique meeting IDs protect your account and your meetings from unauthorized visitors.

One-Time Meeting Passwords Single-use meeting passwords are available to protect your most sensitive online meetings.

Secure Control over Desktop Sharing Presenter always has complete control when sharing keyboard and mouse with attendees, creating a secure environment for collaboration.

Everyday All You Can Meet™ Prices

Get unlimited online meetings for one low subscription fee, with no "overage" charges, ever. You can pay month-to-month or buy an Annual Plan and save 20 percent.

Monthly Plan $49.00/month

Annual Plan $468.00/year Best Value (Save 20%)

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Prices Include:

• Unlimited meetings with up to 10 attendees

• Integrated conference calling service

• Industry-leading security

• Unlimited software and service upgrades

Compare to Others:

WebEx - 375/Month with a maximum of five people. Unlimited usage and meetings. Additional person: $10 per 15 minutes

Microsoft Live Meeting - 375/Month with a maximum of five people. Unlimited usage and meetings. Pay extra to upgrade to 128-bit security

Sundance Communications - Five-user pack: $274.95 a month plus 20 cents a minute for audio conferencing. 10-user pack: $399.95 a month plus 18 cents a minute for audio.

Macromedia Breeze - $9,500 annually (for up to 10 concurrent users).

Atinav - $40 per user per month (five-user minimum)

About Citrix

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), offers the leading Web-based access, support and collaboration software and services. The division offers Citrix GoToMyPC®, the easiest-to-use solution for remote, secure and managed desktop PC access over the Web; Citrix GoToAssist™, the industry-leading remote-support solution and Citrix GoToMeeting, the easiest, most secure and cost-effective solution for conducting online meetings. Citrix Online products are used by more than 9,400 companies worldwide, including Verizon Online, Siemens, Cablevision and Microsoft Business Solutions.

Articles

GoToMeeting Offers Affordable Web Conferencing Citrix Systems' GoToMeeting Enter GoToMeeting, a Web hosting service from Citrix Online, the same people who brought you the extraordinarily effective and simple GoToMyPC. Citrix Online uses its technology to make Web conferencing equally simple.



By Lauren Simonds	Sep 23, 2004

In theory, conducting meetings over the Internet is a great concept. You can save a bundle on business travel and still keep far-flung clients and employees engaged and up to speed. In practice, however, Web hosting services like WebEx and Microsoft Live Meeting cost a lot more than many SMBs can pay. Plus, learning how to setup and use one of these services can be an exercise in frustration.

Enter GoToMeeting, a Web hosting service from Citrix Online, the same people who brought you the extraordinarily effective and simple GoToMyPC, a program that lets you access your PC from any Web browser. Citrix Online uses its technology to make Web conferencing equally simple.

According to Brian Donahoo, senior vice-president of products and services at Citrix Online, the goal behind GoToMeeting was to design a Web conferencing service that didn't require any customer training and was affordable enough to use every day. "Existing Web conferencing products are not, widely adopted," says Donahoo.

"Customers often get frustrated and give up – either because the service is too hard to set up or because of sticker shock when the monthly bill arrives."

What's in a Web Conference?

Most people use Web conferences for presentations, product demonstrations (i.e., software) and collaboration. A study done by the Yankee Group notes that 89 percent of Web conferences are used for application sharing, 12 percent for annotation and four percent for white boarding.

"When it comes to Web conferencing, less is more," says Donohoo. "We've stripped out the non-essential bells and whistles, making GoToMeeting easier to use. That builds customer confidence because they master the service quickly – and they use it more."

The company is out to change the rules. "Our product is so easy and so affordable, we believe people will use it for unplanned meetings on an ad hoc basis. We're out to change the face of Web conferencing," says Donohoo. "We want to be a disruptive technology."

The Mantra: Easy, Affordable, Secure

Along with ease of use, Citrix Online is also pushing the boundaries of price and security. The company charges a flat, monthly fee of $49. That entitles you to one organizer plus up to 10 attendees and what the company calls its "All You Can Meet" plan.

You can hold as many meetings – of any duration – every month for that $49 fee. No billing surprises. As any small business owner can tell you, being able to predict and manage your monthly expenses is a very good thing. (There's also a GoToMeeting Corporate version – see the details below).

Every GoToMeeting session uses end-to-end 128-bit encryption – the gold standard for security. It means that no outside intruders and no internal eavesdroppers. This security level comes standard – you don't pay extra for it as you do with other Web conferencing services.

How It Works

First, you start by registering at the GoToMeeting Web site and creating a user name and password. The setup takes a few seconds as the GoToMeeting software downloads onto your PC – no configuration required. A couple more clicks to verify password info, and you're

ready to host a meeting. Initiate a meeting by going to the Web site, click Host a Meeting, and send invitations to attendees via Outlook or Instant message. GoToMeeting is tightly integrated with Outlook, but it also works with any other e-mail client.

The people you invite to your meeting don't have to register or need any pre-loaded software. Once they click Join a Meeting on the Web site, the software downloads and within a few seconds, they'll be looking at the meeting host's PC desktop.

Competition Compared

Here's what you get – and what it costs – for Web conferencing from GoToMeeting, WebEx and Microsoft.

GoToMeeting

• $49 per month or $468 per year (20 percent savings from monthly plan)

• Up to 10 attendees and one organizer per meeting

• Unlimited usage and meetings

• Sold online

GoToMeeting Corporate

• $39 per month per organizer

• Minimum of five organizers

• Maximum of 25 attendees per meeting

• Central administration and control

• Unlimited usage and meetings

• Sold through Citrix Online direct sales force

WebEx

• $375 per month

• Maximum of five people

• Unlimited usage and meetings

• Additional person: $10 per 15 minutes

Microsoft Live Meeting

• $375 per month

• Maximum of five people

• Pay extra to upgrade to 128-bit security

GoToMeeting Features

• Desktop screen sharing – you can show any application

• Passing presenter control – for easy role switching

• Giving control of desktop to others – for collaboration

• Chat functionality – to communicate with individual attendees

• Integration with Microsoft Outlook and instant messaging

• Optional audio service – an audio conference bridge provided free of charge. Attendees pay typical long distances phone charges.

Lauren Simonds is the managing editor of SmallBusinessComputing.com

Online Meetings the Easy Way GoToMeeting allows business users to present and collaborate online for a very reasonable price.



By Rich Malloy	November, 2004

Meetings are almost always difficult to organize, hard to run, and boring to attend. The nascent online-meeting experience is little better, but one company is about to change that. Just as e-mail has redefined the way businesspeople communicate, the new GoToMeeting service from Citrix Online may change the way we meet.

Citrix has long been known for its support of remote-access applications. With its acquisition of ExpertCity (subsequently renamed Citrix Online), the company has fortified this reputation. ExpertCity was famous for its GoToMyPC remote-access software. Now, under the Citrix banner, it has parlayed this expertise to create an online meeting service-and a very appealing one at that.

GoToMeeting is offered as "all-you-can-meet" service. Once you pay the monthly subscription, you can use the service as often as you want, as long as you want. What if meetings stretch on for hours? No problem. GoToMeeting won't care, although your colleagues might.

To use GoToMeeting you must first download a 1.5MB application from the company's Web site. On our test laptops, the program downloaded and installed easily; it does not even require an administrator account on your PC.

Citrix has made it extremely easy to start a meeting. You can click a taskbar button or a desktop shortcut, go to the GoToMeeting Web site, or click on a special button that has been affixed to Microsoft Outlook. Once you schedule a meeting, the software makes it easy to send out e-mail invitations to your prospective attendees, who need only click on a Web address to join in. Once the attendees arrive, you can press a well-marked button on the GoToMeeting control panel to begin transmitting your screen contents to all participants.

Before your audience members can take part in your meeting, they have to download the software, too, and with that same software, they can do almost everything that you can. You can invite any attendee to contribute keyboard input to your presentation, or you can enable participants to give presentations from their computers. Of course, this can happen only with your permission. After all, it's your meeting.

Unless your presentation is extremely informative, you will have to complement your presentation with a phone call. You can set up a conference call on your company's PBX system, or you can use GoToMeeting's service.

All you need to do for this service is have all of your attendees call a phone number in central Iowa and enter a meeting code. The only charge is that you and your participants entail is the long-distance call.

In addition to telephone communication, attendees can also chat with the group as a whole or with individual members. Perhaps fittingly, the software enables organizers to avoid distractions by prohibiting attendees from chatting with each other.

Citrix has equipped GoToMeeting with some impressive security features, including 128-bit AES encryption. Also, Citrix maintains that the service works painlessly with existing corporate firewalls.

The sweet spot that Citrix is aiming for with GoToMeeting is the business presentation, where presenters and their audiences can potentially save huge amounts in travel costs and time. But that is not the only application; GoToMeeting could be similarly useful for training and tech-support applications. Indeed, this service may be useful even in face-to-face meetings where a group might have plenty of Wi-Fi laptops, but no projector.

GoToMeeting is not quite perfect. Even over a broadband connection (we used DSL), there is a 3- to 6-second delay between the time a presenter changes a slide and when the change occurs for the audience. As a result, any fancy transition or animation effects in a PowerPoint presentation will be lost. Also, GoToMeeting will not transmit any audio data. That will have to be handled over the phone line.

The entry-level version of GoToMeeting is available for $69 per month for each meeting organizer. (Note: The price was $49 per month until September 30, 2004.) The service supports an unlimited number of meetings with up to ten attendees, who can each attend for free. A 15-day free trial of the software is available on the GoToMeeting Web site.

For larger meetings, there is a corporate version that includes licenses for five or more meeting organizers. The corporate package also includes reporting capabilities to keep track of how each organizer is using the service.

GoToMeeting is a great service offered at an appealing price. If you just can't get there for a face-to-face meeting, or it's just not in the budget, this is the next best thing.

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