Introduction 

Are you confused by all the buzz words surrounding conferencing calling?
There’s audio calling, web conferencing, video conferencing,
teleconferencing and many more. 

The intention of this article is to give you an introduction to Web
Conferencing. I’ll 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 didn’t 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. 

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. 
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. 

About The Author


Peter Black 

If you would like to know more about Web Conference Calls and other
conference calling solutions please visit the following website. 
http://www.aboutconferencecalling.com