What's all the fuss?
Web Conferencing might be thought of as Video Conferencing for the desktop, and with added functionality.
There are many flavours available, all vying for a share of this increasingly vibrant marketplace at a time when market forces dictate cost efficiencies be brought to bear on operating expenses for business everywhere. These are hard times and Web Conferencing offers a genuine opportunity to revolutionise working practices through culture change.
Such change comes through the need to re-assess things and right now the time for change is with us. We need to find better ways of working and to collaborate, and travel having become less affordable and anything but green offers a significant platform for change.
Current online options start with audio conferencing in the form of shared telephone teleconferencing using internet data services such as Skype. Web Conferencing introduces a rich combination of capabilities such as audio with video and allows participants access to capabilities such as sharing of desktops, applications & browsers. People can therefore see and talk to one another with real functionality as if around a table.
Web Conferencing is available to anyone using a PC with broadband access and those participating with web camera are able to interpret facial expressions & body language, just as they would in a normal face to face meeting. It's great too to be able to put a face to the voice when you've not previously met up. A good solution should operate over any PC type platform in terms of operating system, browser, & PC or Apple Mac.
The benefits of web conferencing are acknowledged but uptake has been slow as people prefer the comfort zone of traditional work methods, however economic circumstances are dictating the need for cost effective change afforded by this maturing technology which is experiencing massive growth throughout the world.
According to Wainhouse Research the online conferencing market generated worldwide revenues of $1.14 billion in 2007 with $188 billion projected annually by 2012. Such growth predictions are explosive and indicate a trend every business has to consider. Indeed for many the small investment needed will be repaid many, many times over.
There are many flavours available, all vying for a share of this increasingly vibrant marketplace at a time when market forces dictate cost efficiencies be brought to bear on operating expenses for business everywhere. These are hard times and Web Conferencing offers a genuine opportunity to revolutionise working practices through culture change.
Such change comes through the need to re-assess things and right now the time for change is with us. We need to find better ways of working and to collaborate, and travel having become less affordable and anything but green offers a significant platform for change.
Current online options start with audio conferencing in the form of shared telephone teleconferencing using internet data services such as Skype. Web Conferencing introduces a rich combination of capabilities such as audio with video and allows participants access to capabilities such as sharing of desktops, applications & browsers. People can therefore see and talk to one another with real functionality as if around a table.
Web Conferencing is available to anyone using a PC with broadband access and those participating with web camera are able to interpret facial expressions & body language, just as they would in a normal face to face meeting. It's great too to be able to put a face to the voice when you've not previously met up. A good solution should operate over any PC type platform in terms of operating system, browser, & PC or Apple Mac.
The benefits of web conferencing are acknowledged but uptake has been slow as people prefer the comfort zone of traditional work methods, however economic circumstances are dictating the need for cost effective change afforded by this maturing technology which is experiencing massive growth throughout the world.
According to Wainhouse Research the online conferencing market generated worldwide revenues of $1.14 billion in 2007 with $188 billion projected annually by 2012. Such growth predictions are explosive and indicate a trend every business has to consider. Indeed for many the small investment needed will be repaid many, many times over.
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