Web Conferencing And Its Benefits | The Communication Blog

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Web Conferencing And Its Benefits

By Clark Kent


In a typical office meeting there are certain conversations and documents you want to keep within a limited number of people. That is why you only hold meetings on certain room, doors locked, away from people that are not involved.

Web conferencing allows you to meet your clients, partners and employees without spending on transportation and accommodation. An online conference can be held that the comforts of your home or in your office. It is a way to keep the expenses down but not compromising the profit of the business. It enables you to give instructions, present plans and proposals, and conduct meetings using your computer, a camera, an internet connection and web conferencing hosts or free downloadable programs like Yahoo Messenger or Skype.

If your business is running on a constraint budget or you have just put up your business, you benefit very well on web conferencing by conducting meeting, business proposals and short presentation with your future clients without spending big amount of money. Large companies who are conducting deals online can also save money on using web conference hosting services.


Perhaps, one of the most popular uses of web conferencing is meeting new friends. Tools such as Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, and MSN Live are used by kids, teens as well as adults to talk with other people from another country. Web conferencing is a great tool to get connected to long lost friends.

Instead of keeping the data stored in one computer during a web conference, the non-persistent data flow feature constantly shifts the data from one host to another - making it undetectable from unauthorized access.


Although web conferencing hosts differ in their security construction, most follow voluntarily to these 3 standards. The rest who do not follow these standards are services that are free and downloadable in the internet. (If you are running a large industry, you may steer away from these free programs.)


Clients and witnesses who are unable to meet you in person can be met through web conferencing. As a lawyer, you will be able to talk to your clients and witnesses and at the same time, see them without actually having to travel on their location.


More and more people are beginning to leave their offices and work from their home. This is because tasks that were usually done at the office can now be done at home through the internet. Home-based employees can receive instructions about their work and communicate with their workmates and bosses using web conferencing.

Employers on the other hand do not have to rent a space to have an office - especially if the nature of the business doesn't require machines or other physical setups. Professionals working from home like web marketers, costumer services, programmers, SEO specialists, freelance writers and even engineers and can work and conduct business deals with their clients and employees using web conferencing.

Imagine you are on a business trip abroad and you need to hold emergency meeting to your staff. You cannot just cancel your current engagement and go rush to your office. With web conferencing, you can set up an emergency meeting even if you are in your hotel room.

The list of the benefits of web conferencing goes on. But take note, we are talking about a technology that is still in its infancy stage. Surely in a year or two, we can see more developments that will benefit all of us.




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