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Web
Conferencing
A
Business Advantage
Web
conferencing is the virtual conference or meeting conducted through the
Web.
Online conferencing includes one or more participants,
whose physical
locations are varied.
People at various locations communicate in real time via
text, video or audio forms.
As the real conferencing comprises of
whiteboard, the web conferencing also includes a virtual whiteboard.
The participants can share various applications such as audio clip,
video clip or power point presentation amongst them. This sharing can
be done easily on the Web conferencing.
As
the internet and World Wide Web grow, business are findings way to take
advantage of this and incorporate into day-to-day activities.
Nowadays, people from one country are collaborated with
people
from distant countries.
Many businesses have a presence overseas, and in such a
cases, it is not always feasible to travel the long distances for a
meeting. Hence, online conferencing is opted for by many such
companies.
Applications
of Web conferencing:
- There
is wide range of applications of online conferencing. Companies can
launch
their products through web conferencing.
- The features of the product
can be explained to the clients located in distant places.
- Any software
and its functionality can be demonstrated via online conferencing.
- Many
other applications comprise of conducting brainstorming sessions, large
scale events, employee training, shareholders meeting and sales
presentation.
- More common uses of online
conferencing
include distance learning.
- The teachers and students are often not at
the
same location. They can interact via internet.
- Another application is
medical presentations. Doctors can interact with each other via online
conferencing.
- Especially when the doctors doubt over
particular medical
analysis, they can consult their senior doctors.
- Doctors can send live
videos of their patient’s medical analysis and other reports. The
senior doctors at the receiving end view the images and provide advises
in real time.
Features of
Web conferencing:
- Many conference
comprises of slide show, often a power point presentation. Such
presentation can be loaded and viewed in real time by the participants
of online conferencing.
- The slide show presenter can present it over
the
web just as one would do it in person. They can show a particular slide
or a particular portion of the slide at a time.
- If
you are involved in the video conference, you can present a live
demonstration of a product. The demonstration is captured over the
digital video camera or webcam.
- It is similar as you talk to your
friend online via a messenger. The online messenger or chatting option
comprises of video facility.
- The video in online conferencing is
similar
to this. The participants of the conference talk to each other via
VoIP. VoIP stands for voice over IP.
- IP is Internet Protocol, a way to
send the audio clippings o internet. The VoIP offers the verbal
communication between the two parties.
- It is similar to the telephonic
conversation. The only difference in between the telephonic
conversation and VoIP is that, telephone uses a fixed point to point
connection. On the other hand, VoIP uses internet as the medium.
The
online conferencing white board is the facility with which the
participants can highlight the presentation. It is similar as writing
on a white board in real life. The video conferencing can also include
the text chat.
In this live question- answer section, the members can
communicate via text messages.
Online video conferencing can be
conducted in
any part of the world and include any person from around the
world.
For
additional video
teleconference issues, such as the web
conferencing section here, please check
out the
related sections:
streaming
video conferencing, webinars,
web
meeting and
teleconferencing.
If
you are looking for a little more
hands-on
type information, take a peek at the online video sharing,
video
streaming
information, media
streaming, video
webcasting and how
to stream video.
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