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Long Distance Conference Without Long Distance Travel

If you’re looking for a great way of communicating your business plans with a sister company, web conferencing could be the answer you’ve been looking for.

Maybe you need to have a meeting with several key employees, but there isn’t a day in the foreseeable future when everyone will be in the office on the same day. Consider web conferencing as an alternative to bringing everyone together in person. Instead of calling your employees home from busy schedules, everyone can schedule an hour to be available by web. Interaction goes both ways and business is taken care of, just as if everyone had physically been present.

It may seem like a scene from a science fiction movie. The company meeting is taking place with only three members of the organizational team actually present. The rest are attending only as voices and faces on a computer screen. The reality is this is not something from an imaginary future. It’s real, it’s now and it’s an effective and affordable communication tool for businesses that need long distance conferencing without long distance travel.

The business world is not the only entity using this idea. Consider the ever growing and popular distance learning programs. In these programs, a teacher may have students in a traditional classroom, but also teach to groups of students in satellite classrooms. Students and teachers easily interact with each other, regardless of physical location. It requires a bit of coordination, but the benefits are obvious, both to the students and to those who are using web conferencing in the business world.

So how much will this cost? It depends on the degree of finesse you need. You can literally have web conferencing at no cost through some of the “chat” programs. Everyone logs on with voice and webcam and others see and hear all the conversations. If there are only a few participants and you’re on a limited budget, this isn’t a bad idea.

If you’re looking for something a bit more professional, there are several other options, all with minimal charges. You often have a moderator in charge of the meeting and can conduct the meeting much as any other business meeting. Setting up the web conference will be no trouble at all, and you might just find yourself preferring to hold virtual meetings using this wonderful technology over the limited options that have been previously available.

Contributed by richmcl on April 5, 2008, at 8:19 AM UTC.

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