The same old “Mac vs PC” question?
March 31, 2009 by Web Conferencing Reviews
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Can you answer Alan B’s question about Conferencing?:
I’m hoping for substantive responses. A few friends swear by Macs, but I’ve been a PC guy all my life (even back to the Radio Shack TRS-80 and BASIC language programming, LOL). I’m trying to keep an open mind this time around, since I’m willing to part with good money for something solid.
I’m hoping for substantive responses. A few friends swear by Macs, but I’ve been a PC guy all my life (even back to the Radio Shack TRS-80 and BASIC language programming, LOL). I’m trying to keep an open mind this time around, since I’m willing to part with good money for something solid.
I’m not a fan of the Mac’s simple one-button mouse, and I’m not crazy about learning a new interface (although Vista now makes that unavoidable, hence my willingness to switch if necessary). Mac also doesnt offer an attached 10-key, which I prefer. Fewer virus problems is a big plus.
I travel overseas often, and would prefer something that is very good with webcams for video-conferencing. My 3-yr old Dell (low-cost/obsolete when bought for $400) won’t run newer (even medium-graphics) games now.
I’m willing to spend up to $2500 if something can really inspire confidence. I’m looking at Voodoopc, Alienware, HP, Sony, Dell & Toshiba… or a Mac.
Any intelligent input is welcome. Thanks!
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How does Skype work? What do you have to pay for and what is free?
March 30, 2009 by Web Conferencing Reviews
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Can you answer Cait’s question about Conferencing?:
So I understand that it is free to call other Skype users from computer to computer.
If I call a cell or landline, how much does it cost me and how much does it cost the person I’m calling? (per minute or hour)
Does it cost anything extra to call internationally? (I’m going to Costa Rica for a month and I’m wondering about making calls back to the US and having people call me there.)
How about video conferencing between computers?
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So I understand that it is free to call other Skype users from computer to computer.
If I call a cell or landline, how much does it cost me and how much does it cost the person I’m calling? (per minute or hour)
Does it cost anything extra to call internationally? (I’m going to Costa Rica for a month and I’m wondering about making calls back to the US and having people call me there.)
How about video conferencing between computers?
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Webinars: Time Rich and Money Smart
March 30, 2009 by Web Conferencing Reviews
Filed under Webinars and Teleseminars
What comes to mind when you think, “seminar?” Suits, ties, high heels, Hotels, fine dining, travel… the list goes on. Seminars add up to a lot of money and time- something many Americans are becoming less willing to part with.
The laser pace of our society is demanding instant products, and that demand is quickly coming to include the traditional seminar. A lot of people smile at the thought of throwing away the hosiery and suit coats, and letting the world come to their desktop in the form of a Webinar.
According to the well-known Web Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.com, a Webinar is just about what it sounds like - a seminar conducted over the World Wide Web. What’s the difference between a Webinar and a Web Conference? Interaction. Presenters and the audience have direct communication via telephone or speaker phone.
If you’ve been scratching your head, looking for more ways to stretch your days and/or budget this may be your personal bonanza.
5 Reasons to Consider Hosting a Webinar
You’ll Save Money
Travel and phone arrangements to get a seminar set to roll can quickly add up. Add to that the time you’ll spend, and the benefits of the Webinar look pretty good.
You’ll Broaden your Horizons
Just like everything else that happens on the World Wide Web, the
Webinar allows you to reach a global audience that might not otherwise be able to attend a conventional seminar.
You’ll Increase Sales
It stands to reason that if you reach a larger audience, your sales will rocket in direct proportion to the expansion.
You’ve got a Hook
Once you’ve wooed an audience with a Webinar, you have the perfect opportunity to keep them coming back for other Web Conferences, classes or to your Web Site.
You can Make Money as an Affiliate
Affiliateship is a booming market. Why not cash in on it. If you’ve found a good Web Conference provider, offer it to your audience for a profit.
Wondering what will make a Webinar successful?
*Plan Ahead
Just like a seminar you need to have a schedule, choose potential speakers, set a budget, and promote it before hand. Don’t forget to put aside some time to make the registration process user friendly and helpful in following up after the event.
*Market It
Remember to focus on your target market. A great way to spread the good news is to put a “tell a colleague” link on your registration page.
*Make it Exciting
Ring, ring… that’s all it will take to get your audience distracted. Remember you’ll be competing with phones, email and other distractions.
*Have a Back Up Plan
Technology is fool-proof right? Just have a tight deadline to meet, and you’ll find out how foolproof it really is! Be prepared for the worst - just in case.
*Shop Around for a Quality Conferencing Vendor
The bigger the turnout, the more volume your vendor will need to be able to handle effectively. Customer support, as always, is a big plus as well.
Thanks to Allyn Cutts for contributing this article to our Conferencing blog:
The laser pace of our society is demanding instant products, and that demand is quickly coming to include the traditional seminar. A lot of people smile at the thought of throwing away the hosiery and suit coats, and letting the world come to their desktop in the form of a Webinar.
According to the well-known Web Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.com, a Webinar is just about what it sounds like - a seminar conducted over the World Wide Web. What’s the difference between a Webinar and a Web Conference? Interaction. Presenters and the audience have direct communication via telephone or speaker phone.
If you’ve been scratching your head, looking for more ways to stretch your days and/or budget this may be your personal bonanza.
5 Reasons to Consider Hosting a Webinar
You’ll Save Money
Travel and phone arrangements to get a seminar set to roll can quickly add up. Add to that the time you’ll spend, and the benefits of the Webinar look pretty good.
You’ll Broaden your Horizons
Just like everything else that happens on the World Wide Web, the
Webinar allows you to reach a global audience that might not otherwise be able to attend a conventional seminar.
You’ll Increase Sales
It stands to reason that if you reach a larger audience, your sales will rocket in direct proportion to the expansion.
You’ve got a Hook
Once you’ve wooed an audience with a Webinar, you have the perfect opportunity to keep them coming back for other Web Conferences, classes or to your Web Site.
You can Make Money as an Affiliate
Affiliateship is a booming market. Why not cash in on it. If you’ve found a good Web Conference provider, offer it to your audience for a profit.
Wondering what will make a Webinar successful?
*Plan Ahead
Just like a seminar you need to have a schedule, choose potential speakers, set a budget, and promote it before hand. Don’t forget to put aside some time to make the registration process user friendly and helpful in following up after the event.
*Market It
Remember to focus on your target market. A great way to spread the good news is to put a “tell a colleague” link on your registration page.
*Make it Exciting
Ring, ring… that’s all it will take to get your audience distracted. Remember you’ll be competing with phones, email and other distractions.
*Have a Back Up Plan
Technology is fool-proof right? Just have a tight deadline to meet, and you’ll find out how foolproof it really is! Be prepared for the worst - just in case.
*Shop Around for a Quality Conferencing Vendor
The bigger the turnout, the more volume your vendor will need to be able to handle effectively. Customer support, as always, is a big plus as well.
Thanks to Allyn Cutts for contributing this article to our Conferencing blog:
Who is Allyn Cutts, and why should you care?
Allyn has spent over 24 years helping businesses like yours find new customers and increase sales to current customers. Allyn is a marketing and sales fanatic, providing measurable marketing solutions that drive huge results for small-to mid-size business clients. You can learn more about Allyn Cutts at http://www.AllynCutts.com and you can call 610.437.4106 between 10 AM and 4 PM Eastern Time Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Annihilate Business Costs With Teleconferencing
March 29, 2009 by Web Conferencing Reviews
Filed under About Conferencing
A teleconference is a meeting (conference) held over a distance (tele), thus the name. It is a tool for firms to converse over long distances. Using the telecommunications innovation, two or more parties meet from two or more locations.
The advancements that come under for teleconferencing include video conferencing, audio conferencing, and data conferencing.
With the level of money that organizations are spending on these technologies increasing, it is obvious that the priority of teleconferencing in the corporate business world cannot be overlooked.
Teleconferencing systems allow businesses to have meetings over long distances, conduct business briefings, employee training sessions, conduct interviews, prioritize workshops and seminars, just about anything between members who cannot easily come together.
It is most commonly used in the business environment for distance staff meetings, distances learning and training, and job interviewing. So, teleconferencing 100% makes a business more efficient and helps the business to save money.
How you may well ask. Let us mull over the following points.
NO MORE FOOTLOOSE: With teleconferencing, a business can save a large amount on commute expenses. Communication will be by using the telecommunication methods, which is more efficient and convenient.
An organizations workforces dont have to move and travel from one place to another incurring expenses. Staff meetings, learning, training can all be conducted over teleconferencing, reducing employee movement to the minimum.
APPOINTMENT TIME: businesses can utilize teleconferencing for recruiting and interviewing potential staff. One of the bonuses of teleconferencing in the recruitment process is that the business has the ability to interview more candidates for the same cost. This reduces the cost of flying the candidates over for the interview.
In addition, interviewers from more than one geographical location within the same business can participate in the interview system, in a team effort, without the predicament and expenditure of transportation to a central site. Result is tremendous cost saving.
FACE-ON- FACE-OFF: With teleconferencing providing the facility of conference calls, business constituents do not have to personally meet each other face to face. Conference calls make information exchange between offices, staff or from one business location to another very simple, with just the click of a button.
No cumbersome meetings to organize or lengthy mails to accumulate. In fact, teleconferencing has lessens the personal meetings between staff to the bare minimum unless really fundamental. This has also reduced the disruption of work and time in attending meetings or reading and replying to mails. And very much, the cost of teleconferencing is much less that a formal meeting!
THE NEED IS SPEED: Web-conferencing techniques are also available with teleconferencing. This enables the easy conducing of meetings and making business plans. With the help of applications like Excess, PowerPoint, businesses can benefit by transmitting images from one place to another in a matter of minutes.
Also, web conferencing includes instant messaging servicing that can allow businesses to use instantaneous messages to converse or set up specially designed chat rooms to conduct discussions, meetings and planning of projects.
GROUPIES NO LONGER: One of the major benefits of teleconferencing is its potential to reduce the cost of group meetings. The most obvious benefit of teleconferencing is that of staff meetings of dispersed personnel within the organization.
This usually takes the form of management meetings, where personnel meet from several hierarchical levels of the business, to review management objectives, performance, goals, or other management issues. With teleconferencing, this approach gets simplified with less flow of staff and no need to arrange the formal set up.
Teleconferencing can also be used as a means of sharing info, such as product design, within the same hierarchical level of the business. This can help your business save money by saving time required to convey data and info to different groups within the organization.
THE CUTTING EDGE: More and more organizations are using teleconferencing to secure a competitive benefit. This competitive advantage results from both tangible and intangible advantages. certainly when teleconferencing is used in place of traditional business transportation, there will be a tangible benefit of cost savings to the business organization.
However, there are also reasons for teleconferencing that may not yield calculable pluses, yet add to the competitive advantage of the business. For example, it may be possible to allow more frequent staff meetings within the business because expensive transportation is not necessary.
The bottom line is that with teleconferencing, businesses can interact with comparatively less expense. Teleconferencing saves precious time and money, which are essential to the profitability of a business. There positively will be initial expenses associated with setting up the necessary equipment and innovation, but it provides incredible saving in the long run.
So, dont hesitate and invest in the teleconferencing technology at the earliest and set your business on top the road to profit!!
Audio conferencing and videoconferencing services are waiting to be leveraged by you! What are you waiting for?
Thanks to John Thompson for contributing this article to our Conferencing blog:
The advancements that come under for teleconferencing include video conferencing, audio conferencing, and data conferencing.
With the level of money that organizations are spending on these technologies increasing, it is obvious that the priority of teleconferencing in the corporate business world cannot be overlooked.
Teleconferencing systems allow businesses to have meetings over long distances, conduct business briefings, employee training sessions, conduct interviews, prioritize workshops and seminars, just about anything between members who cannot easily come together.
It is most commonly used in the business environment for distance staff meetings, distances learning and training, and job interviewing. So, teleconferencing 100% makes a business more efficient and helps the business to save money.
How you may well ask. Let us mull over the following points.
NO MORE FOOTLOOSE: With teleconferencing, a business can save a large amount on commute expenses. Communication will be by using the telecommunication methods, which is more efficient and convenient.
An organizations workforces dont have to move and travel from one place to another incurring expenses. Staff meetings, learning, training can all be conducted over teleconferencing, reducing employee movement to the minimum.
APPOINTMENT TIME: businesses can utilize teleconferencing for recruiting and interviewing potential staff. One of the bonuses of teleconferencing in the recruitment process is that the business has the ability to interview more candidates for the same cost. This reduces the cost of flying the candidates over for the interview.
In addition, interviewers from more than one geographical location within the same business can participate in the interview system, in a team effort, without the predicament and expenditure of transportation to a central site. Result is tremendous cost saving.
FACE-ON- FACE-OFF: With teleconferencing providing the facility of conference calls, business constituents do not have to personally meet each other face to face. Conference calls make information exchange between offices, staff or from one business location to another very simple, with just the click of a button.
No cumbersome meetings to organize or lengthy mails to accumulate. In fact, teleconferencing has lessens the personal meetings between staff to the bare minimum unless really fundamental. This has also reduced the disruption of work and time in attending meetings or reading and replying to mails. And very much, the cost of teleconferencing is much less that a formal meeting!
THE NEED IS SPEED: Web-conferencing techniques are also available with teleconferencing. This enables the easy conducing of meetings and making business plans. With the help of applications like Excess, PowerPoint, businesses can benefit by transmitting images from one place to another in a matter of minutes.
Also, web conferencing includes instant messaging servicing that can allow businesses to use instantaneous messages to converse or set up specially designed chat rooms to conduct discussions, meetings and planning of projects.
GROUPIES NO LONGER: One of the major benefits of teleconferencing is its potential to reduce the cost of group meetings. The most obvious benefit of teleconferencing is that of staff meetings of dispersed personnel within the organization.
This usually takes the form of management meetings, where personnel meet from several hierarchical levels of the business, to review management objectives, performance, goals, or other management issues. With teleconferencing, this approach gets simplified with less flow of staff and no need to arrange the formal set up.
Teleconferencing can also be used as a means of sharing info, such as product design, within the same hierarchical level of the business. This can help your business save money by saving time required to convey data and info to different groups within the organization.
THE CUTTING EDGE: More and more organizations are using teleconferencing to secure a competitive benefit. This competitive advantage results from both tangible and intangible advantages. certainly when teleconferencing is used in place of traditional business transportation, there will be a tangible benefit of cost savings to the business organization.
However, there are also reasons for teleconferencing that may not yield calculable pluses, yet add to the competitive advantage of the business. For example, it may be possible to allow more frequent staff meetings within the business because expensive transportation is not necessary.
The bottom line is that with teleconferencing, businesses can interact with comparatively less expense. Teleconferencing saves precious time and money, which are essential to the profitability of a business. There positively will be initial expenses associated with setting up the necessary equipment and innovation, but it provides incredible saving in the long run.
So, dont hesitate and invest in the teleconferencing technology at the earliest and set your business on top the road to profit!!
Audio conferencing and videoconferencing services are waiting to be leveraged by you! What are you waiting for?
Thanks to John Thompson for contributing this article to our Conferencing blog:
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What is the best & most cost efficient video-conferencing software for a small business?
March 29, 2009 by Web Conferencing Reviews
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Can you answer johnec4’s question about Conferencing?:
Our company is very small, and would like to look into video conferencing. What are some good options to look at? We would be using it primarily for a one to many situation, one host (with a camera) and many participants (with cameras). We received a demo of adobe connect pro, and liked it very much, but it was a bit out of our price range.
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Our company is very small, and would like to look into video conferencing. What are some good options to look at? We would be using it primarily for a one to many situation, one host (with a camera) and many participants (with cameras). We received a demo of adobe connect pro, and liked it very much, but it was a bit out of our price range.
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