Extension of the Week: Zoho Meeting

Happy New Year! The first Extension of the Week for 2009 is Zoho Meeting. This extension allows you to share presentations at anytime anywhere. Zoho Meeting’s support for remote access lends an interactive element to presentations. With the MindTouch Deki Zoho extension you can embed a screen share on a Deki page allowing viewers to view the presentation directly within MindTouch Deki.

To get started, install the Zoho Extension and sign up for a Zoho Meeting account.

Once you have signed up for Zoho Meeting, create a new meeting. The created meeting will generate a meeting key that you will use with the extension. Now go to Deki, edit the page where you want to embed the meeting and click the Extension button in the editor:

Then search for the Zoho extension and add your username for your Zoho account along with the meeting key as follows:

Click Insert Extension and it will show the following code:

 {{ zoho.meeting{user: "cjtannu", key: "3337639500000000900517"} }}

Then click Save in the Editor and you will be presented with a login screen where the viewers of the presentation can put their name/email:

The viewers will then click Join and will be on hold until the Presenter share’s their screen:

Using the Zoho Meeting Extension will allow you to have a single location where users can gather to not only attend the screen sharing application, but also capture notes and collaborate.

If you are interested in writing your own extension like this Zoho extension, you can easily do it with a little HTML knowledge and the tutorial here. As always if you have any questions/suggestions please leave a comment or contact us.