Best practices for recording web conferences, web casts, online meetings

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

• Close all unnecessary applications before starting a web-conference, online meeting. It is especially important if you share your screen.
  It is especially important to close instant messengers and any applications that can show pop up screens during the meeting. You don't want any personal data to be seen by other participants of the web-conference or online meeting.
  
• Make sure to have enough hard drive space to record your web-conference, online meeting. Your recordings can be anywhere from a few megabytes to a hundred megabytes or even gigabytes. It depends on the screen activity, the length of the meeting as well as software and its settings.
  
• Use a web-conferencing services with built-in recording capabilities. Some services allow you to record any audio and video, even when participants use old phones and VOIP calls. For example, GoToMeeting allows the organizer to record a webinar
  
  Please note that ONLY the organizer of the meeting can record it. Although any participant can use screen video capture software like Replay Video Capture when the service doesn't offer any recording features or when the organizer doesn't plan to record the web-conference, online meeting and share the recording.
  
• Keep your recordings secure. Some web-conferencing services allows to share the recorded web-conference, online meeting.
  
  Do not post your recordings on the Internet so that anybody have access to them. Choose a secure solution for delivering videos. Services like YouSendIt allow you to send large files (up to 2GBs) safely over the Internet.
  
• Stop the recording after finishing the web-conference, online meeting. Otherwise you can accidentally record your personal activity after the meeting has ended.

And IMCapture for Skype can also record conferences)