Holding meetings online is about to become commonplace. Now, anyone with a broadband Internet connection and a browser can log onto the Internet and take part in or host a web conference, a web and video conference or a webinar. Previously it was necessary to download and install complicated Internet meeting software and buy expensive equipment in order to enjoy the convenience of Internet meetings and webinars. Mega Meeting has taken web and video conferencing services a step further with new, 100% desktop, browser based web conferencing services and webinar software that does not require any special installation on your computer. Meeting online has never been this easy!

Do you want to keep in touch with employees, business contacts or clients? Mega Meeting’s video and web conferencing services make it possible for anyone, anywhere in the world to log on and participate in your Internet meeting. The service works on any operating system, Mac, Windows or Linux, and users can take part even if their computers are protected by a firewall.

An Affordable Conferencing System

Online conferencing will not break your budget! In fact, when you add up the travel costs that you will save when you hold meetings online, the costs of this service become negligible. Mega Meeting is available in four versions, suited to individuals, small companies, large organizations and companies that wish a private branded version.

Mega Meeting offers superior Web and Video Conferencing solutions at a fraction of the cost. Online find out how this service can help bring your organization together, boost morale, raise efficiency, improve team work and lower your travel costs. If you have any questions, just call or e-mail us and we will be happy to help you out. Give Mega Meeting a try and see why more and more organizations are turning to our solutions for videoconferences, web conferencing and other Internet meeting needs.

Video and Web Conferencing Software

Through its variety of services, Mega Meeting provides full-featured and flexible web conferencing software, video chat server and webinar software. Participants can communicate by voice, instant messaging chat and see each other by video/videoconference. This is made possible by the powerful video chat server. With Professional and Enterprise versions of its web conferencing software, Mega Meeting includes multipoint, desktop video conferencing software that allows up to 16 individuals to be seen at the same time, and an unlimited number of additional web conferencing attendees to see those 16. Participants can talk and hear one another by using standard microphones and headsets thanks to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). As an alternative, if you wish, you can choose to use free, integrated teleconferencing for the handling of audio in your webinars.

Participants can share applications and open and examine common documents while online. Hosts of the conference can show a PowerPoint presentation that will be visible to all attendees. And some versions even allow an operator to remotely control the computer of another participant.

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The uses of Mega Meeting’s web and desktop video conferencing systems are limited only by your imagination. Companies are presently using Mega Meeting services to hold Internet meetings (videoconferencing), demonstrate their products and services to potential clients, conduct staff training sessions and even perform after-sales servicing of their products and software (by using remote desktop control software).

Educational, social and religious organizations are using video conferencing services to connect with students and members at a distance. Many organizations are using the webinar hosting features to conduct virtual, web based meetings and seminars.

Are you a business looking for an easy way to conduct online web conference with video and audio services? Do you want to find a quick and painless method for conducting online meetings with prospects, clients and employees? Try Mega  meeting, a browser-based video conferencing software. Mega meeting requires no downloading, installing or configuring of software. All you need is an Internet browser, a broadband Internet connection and a web camera or digital video camera (if you wish to be seen).

In addition, MegaMeeting.com is operating system agnostic, meaning that anyone using a Windows, Mac or Linux based machine may participate in a Web Conference. With multipoint online Conferencing, up to 16 individuals can be seen at the same time, and an unlimited number of additional secure video conference attendees can see those 16. Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) means that Video Web Conferencing participants can talk and hear one another by using standard microphones and headsets.



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Webinar Best Practices

It’s been a long time coming, but in the final stretch, video conferences sprinted to the finish line… almost. When they first came out, they were expensive, cumbersome, choppy, and hard to find. And now our top-of-the-line video conferencing systems have come far, but they are still expensive and cumbersome. Be expectant, the future is just around the corner.

In 2008, you can pop up a little video window on your computer using a free chat/instant messaging window – having first bought a thirty dollar webcam, of course. It’s small and choppy, but free and easy. You could also spend around a hundred dollars and get a nice webcam and use a video conferencing service. This is a good option for clear, smooth video conferencing. It’s a far cry from a floor to ceiling screen with resolution so good you can count freckles, but unless you have half a million dollars, it’s as close as you’re going to get.

Despite having said that, we’ve come a long way in just five years. Small and choppy video was all you could really get back then, and now we can get decent quality and sound, inexpensively and easily. Imagine what it will be like in five more years.

Even so, to get there, we have to extensively use what we have now to justify progressing the medium. Like a mom telling us to finish our greens before we can get dessert, to get insanely good video conferencing for everyone, we have to show that there is a demand, a need to encourage developers to make things better and cheaper.

The good news is that collectively, we are already doing this. Hospitals are a prime example of cutting edge video conferencing being put to use. Doctors in hospitals across the country or world can discuss a particular diagnosis instantly via a video conference. In some hospitals, screens attached to motorized bases roll around the halls of medicine controlled by doctors in their offices or homes. They follow-up with their patients, look for complications, discuss further treatments, etc. and roll to the next room.

Another incredible use of video conferencing combined with robotics is telesurgery. Robot arms with medical attachments can be controlled remotely and with video conferencing, surgeons can see and be seen despite being worlds away. Imagine the world’s foremost heart surgeon treating patients around the world, all from a room in his local hospital.

For military purposes, video conferencing has provided options that were needed, but not feasible before. HQ can now converse with all of its battlefield commanders at once. No more do leaders have to leave their men to give reports or updates on the situation. More importantly, video conferences allowed for real-time collaboration of all commanders in one session. Splice in real-time video from the front, and a clearer picture of what to do is formed.

Education isn’t left out of the video conferencing revolution. Guest lecturers are no longer a rare and expensive event. They can be piped in to hundreds of classrooms at once to enlighten and teach. And it’s not just on college campuses either, students of all grades are benefitting from remote teaching. Naturally, this led us to remote learning. Especially in low-income locations, students who normally wouldn’t have a shot at an education can log in and be taught by teachers who might not even be in the same country.

Video conferences have made great strides in business as well. Salespeople are able to visit and talk with vastly more customers and potential customers in a fraction of the time that it used to take. A company’s branch managers can quickly get together to discuss strategies and new policies with the time and expense of a phone call. CEOs often get their most important employees on a video conference to get the feel of what is going on in the company.

What does this mean for you if you are not one of the people in the examples above? It means that because of the ground-breakers in science, medicine, the military, education, and business, video conferencing is a very real and very affordable option for you. If your business doesn’t have it, get it. There are a myriad of ways that video conferencing can help you improve your communication, efficiency, and budget. All you have to have is a little imagination. If you can’t imagine anything, wait five years and take your pick of the incredible solutions to be had then.



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Phone Conferencing Equipment

When you host an audio conference call, web conference, or video conference, you are engaging in an interactive dialogue with your participants. This reveals a weak point: if you conduct the best webinar in the world, but without any participants, do you make a sound?

Finding participants for your webinars is sometimes easy. They could be employees for the quarterly meeting, or your core customers for the big annual product update. Sometimes it’s hard to get an audience, like a webinar for potential customers.

It’s when you have a list of leads and a superb webinar to show them that you need to be a bit creative, or at least unique enough to get people to become participants. Here are some suggestions to use emails, registration pages, and eBooks to increase your webinar attendance.

1. In your email invitations, realize that Bold, ALL CAPS, and other visual devices have rendered most invitees jaded, and will encourage them to send your email to the junk folder. Try a more simplistic approach. Tell them they have been invited to a webinar, what it’s about, and how they can join. Ironically, a short, plain email will grab more attention because it’s the opposite of what people normally receive.

2. Strive to encourage participant participation, even in the first email invitation. Announce that there are a few choices for the scope of the webinar and that it will be decided by the participants. Allow them to reply and cast their vote by bolding one of the choices in your list. You can also let them know about a poll on the registration page.

3. Whether you let them decide what the purpose of the webinar is or not, let your potential participants give their input. What are they interested in? What thoughts do your products, company, or guest speaker conjure in their minds? Ask for their suggestions to be delivered by replying to the email, or let them know there will be a place to comment on the registration page.

4. Nothing interests a person more than an answer to their own question. Tell people that you want their questions. Direct them to a place on the registration page to put questions, and that their questions will be answered in the webinar. Make sure to include a specific time for these questions in your public and private agendas and schedules.

5. Give them something to grab their attention. For example, do you have an eBook – or can write one in time for the webinar? Put in your email that after registration for the conference, they can download your eBook “for free.” Or why not give it to them outright? Attach your eBook with the email invitation. The eBook can be about the same things you’ll be discussing in your webinar, or simply about the industry.

People are bombarded by advertising everywhere they go. Even in their homes, if it’s not on the products they buy or the TV, it jumps at them through the internet and email. A nice, austere, genuine invitation email might be a soothing sight for their very sore eyes, separating you from everyone else.



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Cheap Video Conferencing

Web and video conferencing technology is becoming more sophisticated with each passing day. A few years ago it was a novelty just to talk with someone online, and view his or her image at the same time. Today web conferences bring together entire companies in complex interaction that rivals live face-to-face meetings. How you might benefit from the latest developments in web conferencing depends on your particular needs. Here are a few points that you should consider.

1. Do you need to make a Powerpoint or other presentation during your conference?

If you answered “yes” to this question, then you will be glad to know that current web and video conferencing services allow the host of a conference to present a slide show or power point demonstration that will be visible on the screens of all the participants of a conference. Similarly, hosts can also open and show other document formats to their attendees. If you need this kind of capability, make sure that your conference provider can give this to you.

2. Do you require telephone conferencing integrated with your web/video conference?

Many organizations have found telephone conferencing to be an effective way to get work done. If you are already connecting with your members and staff via telephone conferences you can expand on this by choosing a web conferencing system that integrates telephone conferencing along with the online conference. The combined service will give you the ease of phone conferencing along with the enhanced visual and presentation features of online conferencing.

Some services allow the host to pay the long distance bill of all the participants (toll free conferencing), while others require each participant to cover their long distance fees.

3. Do all of your conference participants use the same type of computer?

If your participants are going to be using a variety of computers (PC, Mac, Linux) then you will benefit most by choosing a web conferencing system that works on any platform. While earlier conferencing systems required the downloading of complex software that would work only on specified operating systems, newer conferencing formats are delivered online and are browser based. They work on any operating system and if yours in an eclectic audience, then you will get best results with this type of conferencing.

4. Will it be necessary for one of your technicians to “take-over” and operate the computers of any of your participants?

If you wish to use conferencing as a service tool and want to avoid having to send out your service team on physical visits to clients, you can save a lot of travel time and cost by selecting a web and video conferencing system that allows the host of the conference to go online and actually take control of the computer of the client or conference participant. If you are looking at web conferencing as an after-sales service tool, then this particular feature will probably give you one of the most important benefits that you could wish for.

5. Do you want to conduct an online poll or survey during the conference?

If you have a large organization and want to make a quick and accurate poll of opinion or vote on a particular issue then the new polling capabilities of the most advanced web conferencing services will be an important feature for you.

Similarly, if you need to gather demographic information about your meeting participants, obtain valuable input, or quiz and test your participants, then the new online survey capabilities of current web conferencing systems will be an important feature to look for when choosing your conference format. Data from these types of online “surveys” can typically be saved and used for future use.

6. Do you want to brainstorm online, using a “whiteboard”?

Brainstorming is a great way to tap the ideas of a group and to come up with and select new ideas. If this is what you like to do when holding physical meetings, then you will probably want to be able to do the same thing in your virtual meetings as well. This is now possible in some of the more advanced web conferencing systems by using a “group notepad” that enables meeting participants to utilize a shared workspace. The results of these brainstorming sessions can typically be saved in a storage area.

Which of these features will benefit you the most? It all depends on your particular needs. However, one thing is sure: once you experience the convenience of online meetings, you will not want to go back to the era when every meeting required you to pack up your bags and get on an airplane.



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