[WEB4LIB] collaborative browsing software for distance support

Linda Woods Hyman lhyman at mail.sdsu.edu
Tue Sep 7 23:34:17 EDT 1999


At 05:10 PM 9/7/99 -0700, glen.davies at cce.ac.nz wrote:
>I would be interested in hearing if anybody has implemented any 
>collaborative browsing software for support of distance students, 
>eg. the likes of Cosmocall agent
>http://www.cosmocom.com/
>or Balisoft's Live Contact
>http://www.balisoft.com/products/livecontact.html
>
>Or any other package that allows a distance user to page a 
>Librarian, set up a chat session and give the Librarian the ability to 
>take over the users browser. It is the last function that I am 
>particularly interested in.
>
I've done some work using NetMeeting. You can do many things including
collaboration such as that which you mention. It's free.



****************************
Linda Woods Hyman, MLS., MA.
Pacific Bell Education First
(619) 237-2020
http://www.kn.pacbell.com
lhyman at mail.sdsu.edu


More information about the Web4lib mailing list