What Are Some Features Of Conferencing Services? | The Communication Blog

Monday, August 2, 2010

What Are Some Features Of Conferencing Services?

By Alex Tipu

Conferencing technology is a very helpful and advantageous tool for people that can be used in diverse ways depending on the needs and demands. This technology can be used with the help of internet or phones, and enables people to keep in touch with others through ways that save money and time. If a person, wants to be in touch with many people, visits the place where everyone is working, it can be time consuming. With the facility of conferencing, it has become possible to share ideas and views of different people. A very useful feature of Conferencing Services is that productivity improves, and people can work together on different applications of business. Inter-communication between colleagues or family members in a short span of time and at a low cost is an advantage.

Conferencing services have a large number of features and benefits, especially for businesses, which use number of technological equipment. With the help of web conferencing, you can easily send and receive files and documents over the web, and use features such as video call to converse with business associates, as if they were sitting right next to you.

Interactive session is another tool of the web conferencing services. Here, you can invite around 50 or even more, members on board who can easily share the mouse and keyboard controls with you, can synchronize by explaining your points and questioning also via interactive whiteboard sessions. You can also make your audience do surveys and quizzes. There are some web conferencing services that also have the options to integrate some software with them. For example, Acrobat Connect is a type of Web Conferencing Service that integrates Microsoft Office applications and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Some people might think that Conferencing Services might not be secure as it is an online process. Well this is not so; the host controls the permission to allow the people he wants to. The host defines the permission according to the way he wants and all the communications are encrypted using SSL technology. Moreover, the web conferencing service is connected to the company's firewall system and you have the right to apply a password before every meeting so that whoever logs in, logs in with a password.

Most Conferencing Services have a fee to be paid. The softwares are developed and dispatched according to your needs. A yearly plan to buy the services of these softwares will cost you less than those of monthly plans. Normally, they charge a maximum fee of 40 per month, so for business companies, this is an easily affordable fee.

There are many additional features available in a Conferencing Service such as teleconferencing facilities, 24/7 support on phone and email. The conferencing service is compatible with the operating systems of today such as Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, iPhone and iPod touch.

Video Conferencing is also very valuable for businessmen. For Video Conferencing just a web camera and headset is required, all other services are free. There are some paid services that allow people to have video conferencing easily. The audio conferencing involves the use of head phones and speakers to communicate with others.

Sharing is one of the peculiar characteristics of a web conferencing service. You can share your desktop with as many people who are present in less than 30 seconds. Once this guest has joined you, he/she can view your entire desktop so that your sessions turn out to be well explained and highly interactive ones. These were the few features of web conferencing services. It is hoped that by the time the calendar moves into the future, there will be much rapid advancements in these conferencing services.

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