join.me is an online meeting platform that provides desktop and mobile conferencing and screencasting abilities (PC Magazine, 2017). Join.me is considered a “freemium” conferencing platform: many of its features are available at no charge, making it a viable choice for collaboration among enterprises, both large and small, and private citizens who need to share screens. These benefits are extensible to non-profit and academic contexts as well, as libraries’ use of the platform (Johnston, 2012) partly demonstrates. Join.me can be used with systems more common in the academy; one example is Slack, a messaging system used in at least one rhetoric-oriented…
Author: Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt
Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt
Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt is a PhD student in the Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication (RSTC) program at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include technical communication pedagogy, workplace communication, and open source technologies.