subject: Video conferencing saves time, money and energy! [print this page] Video conferencing saves time, money and energy!
In the olden times the offices of people who had companies was restricted to one office in a building. The max it would become would be several offices in the same building or at most a couple of buildings all within close radius of each other. It uses to be easy for officers in different departments to travel from one office to another or to go on for meetings. One call would have all the officers of the company into the meeting room within minutes and a long lengthy meeting would be conducted.
Looking at the modern scenario where companies have offices across the globe it has been becoming very difficult for officials of the company to meet and discuss strategies. There are several times when a company with its branch office in UK wants to communicate with the head office in London to discuss plans for expansion and the same is not feasible because such discussions cannot be done over the phone and going from UK to America or vice versa means major expenditures for the company. Infact in all situations where the company needs to spend on meetings and people have to travel to and from all over the world, it becomes difficult not only monetarily but mentally, emotionally and physically as well.
As an answer to all prayers of all such companies, people from all over the word can meet, greet, talk and discuss at very little costs, and the meeting would be as good as a real live meeting. The answer is web meetings or web conferencing. Web conferencing is also known as video conferencing. The same needs every participant of the meeting to have a computer with high speed internet and a webcam and mic. These computers are then installed with special software using which the web meetings or web conferences can take place. The good thing about it is that a person sitting in America can chat with a person sitting in UK, and can involve many more people together.
The whole web conference is almost as good as a real live meeting and the participants do not have to leave their comfort zones either. Picture this. If it were a real meeting and the UK person had gone to America to meet and then during the meeting realized that the cost budgets he required to display in the expansions plans have been left back home, it won't be a very comfortable situation would it? While on the other hand in a web meeting, while the whole web conference is on, all members of the video conference are in their comfort zones with all papers and documents and required materials next to them.
Not only is theseweb conferences money saving but they help save time as well as no member of the conference needs to travel for the same. All that is required is a high speed internet connection, a computer, a webcam, a mic and some special video conferencing software!
