Everything you need to know about Webcasting…
… has been explained by Ken Yamada on Information Week. Webcast technology is being used to run meetings, to communicate with employees, train sales forces, make product announcements, brief investors and analysts, and run corporate seminars, among other uses.
The article is very good and detailed and provides with a lot of useful information about web casting technology, costs and effectiveness.
We use web casting at my office for meetings. It lets us bring in our telecommuting programmers over their DSL connections. It certainly makes support simpler. I love it.