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By Peter Black
Are you confused by all the buzz words surrounding conferencing calling? Theres audio calling, web conferencing, video conferencing, teleconferencing and many more.
The intention of this article is to give you an introduction to Web Conferencing. Ill describe its capabilities and features. You should then be able to decide if it is suitable for your particular circumstances.
Traditional Conferencing
A traditional physical conference can involve a lot of hassle and disruption to your normal working day. You have
to make travel arrangement, book a hotel, travel overnight to get to the conference in the morning. Not only that, when you get back to work the following day you need to catch up on all the work that you didnt do whilst you were at the conference.
I am not going to suggest that web conference calling is going to totally replace the benefits of face to face
meetings. But what you might be able to do is use a web conferencing solution to enhance your business. For example you may currently have a face to face conference with all your regional managers on a monthly basis. Perhaps with a regular web conference call you could reduce the need for a physical conference down to just once every three months.
Benefits Of Web Conferencing
Here are some of the things that you can do with interactive web conferencing. Perhaps you can think of ways that you can use these to reduce your current conferencing costs and expenses.
Document sharing. This means that your remote colleagues can view your documents such as Microsoft Word, Excel and
PowerPoint. On their web browsers they can watch as you move through the documents.
Whiteboards. This is exactly what you would do in a physical conference. For example you could draw a graph or diagram on your virtual white board and your colleagues can interact with it as well, making corrections, suggestions and alterations. You could use the virtual whiteboards to outline your proposals, just as you would in a real conference facility.
EcomExpo - Affiliate ConferenceEcomExpo is a virtual conference. You can attend from anywhere with a high speed connection. Everything is done online so there are no travel expenses or hotel expenses like a regular conference. As an attendee at the Ecomexpo in Febuary 2005, I was quite satisfied with the conference in general. There were lots of affiliates there, as well as Exhibitors. It really does feel like a true conference. The next EcomExpo is in October, and I plan on being an exhibitor at that one. People have asked me if it is worth it. Well, I say it is well worth the price of admission. If you just take away one ..
Other Business Applications For Web Conference Calling.
Question and Answer sessions.
Presentations.
Show and review project plans.
Lectures.
Seminars.
Two way conversations
Discuss budgets.
Annotate documents.
Project team collaboration
Business Benefits Of Web Conferencing
No need to travel.
No wasted time.
No hotel expenses
More instantaneous.
You can arrange a web conference call at very short notice
and focus on a very specific topic.
Conference Calling Meeting The Needs Of The Modern Business These days it seems business is becoming more and more complex and globalized. We are doing business with people everywhere in the US and in many instances, people in other countries. Due to the wide use of the Internet, the words foreign country doesnt even seem to apply anymore.
The Internet has brought us all closer together in one aspect, but how does that affect investor relations, sales pitches, meetings, and group sessions? A lot of people now work closer with their computers than they do with co-workers and because of the Internet, many companies have people working for them from ..
Easy to cancel the call without disruption.
What equipment is required?
You can start with cheap web conferencing very easily to see if it is suitable for your working practices. I suggest that you visit the website shown at the end of this article to view details of the many web conferencing solutions and products that are available.
Basically you just need an up to date web browser and a good internet connection. Using a dial up connection is possible, but you really need a broadband connection to get the greatest benefits from a web conference call.
At a very simple level, say a one to one meeting, you could use web conferencing to show and share a document with your college and speak to him at the same time via your normal telephone system. Eventually as you can see the huge benefits of web conferencing you can investigate using the other conferencing techniques that are described at my website.
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