What about Skype?

Skype has been, and continues to be, a wonderful communications application that has revolutionised the ability of people to keep in touch from wherever they might be in the world. Families can talk and see one another whenever suits and basic business communications can be enhanced too.

However, the requirements of business communications normally benefit from something a little more capable and indeed Web Conferencing offers so much more than Skype:

• more participant videos online simultaneously (as many as 16)
• virtually unlimited audio participation & users online concurrently
• sharing of user's PC/MAC contents with all other participants, using ShowMyDesktop
• user support through facility to control other user's computers (permission based)
• session recording for later website viewing & training purposes
• on-screen whiteboard & notepad capability
• indication of need to speak in a busy meeting by "raising hand"
• private keyboard chats between individual participants in the background

The above features can add so much more to online business communications. There will always be the need for face to face meetings but Web Conferencing enables meetings to be held with much greater convenience. Indeed the inclusion of participant videos ensures the availability of body and facial language which is so much a part of the meeting culture.