Digital Flipcharting and Distance Teamwork: Concept X7

Many ideas are difficult if not impossible to explain without a pen and paper in hand. And just try to imagine a substantive working meeting without a white board or flip charts available. Online meetings should give you not only reduced travel time and expense, but also the basic tools to make your meetings as productive -- if not more productive -- than being there in person.

With CloudMeeting, you can open any design or notetaking application, even just Paint or Word, and let everybody follow you then just save it to your hard drive and send it along.

But to really manage your ideas and get the highest possible productivity out of your CloudMeeting...meeting, we have been especially impressed by Concept X7 from WebPlanet, to the point that we've made them a CloudMeeting Virtual Alliance Partner. Concept X7's software gives you drag & drop symbols, mapping elements, and design templates to communicate your ideas more clearly, sketch out complex processes more quickly, take group notes in a more organized manner, or do effective digital flip charts with your regular or Tablet PC.

It's possible that your distance meetings will prove themselves more focused and productive than the conventional kind. (But don't forget it's BYOC: Bring your own coffee....)