web conference – webinars

William R. Brown asked:




Have you always promised yourself that you would never take one of those working vacations like all of those other “crazies” that you’ve seen? Or, are you glad your kids chose a college so far away that you don’t have to see them or hear from them (accept for holidays of course… because how can you stop them from coming home for a good home-cooked meal)? If that describes you then you probably don’t want to read the rest.

But, if you are the kind, perhaps one of those “crazies like me”, that ends up taking a vacation only to find it’s actually more refreshing to be part of your office while on vacation, and/or the tempo of your heart paces more comfortably when you are able to touch your kids even a thousand miles away, then I am certainly happy to share this free insight into today’s way of keeping in touch today. It’s mainly a matter of keeping up with the fast pace of changing technology.

But, who can keep up with technology today?

What I’d like to do today, in this article, is take a quick glimpse into some of the technologies available today for us that find comfort by keeping in touch with our ‘important stuff’.

Three technologies we’re peeking at today are the virtual office, Wiki, and Weconferencing.

It’s so easy to look around and see the technology flying by so fast that… well, it runs on by and we didn’t even see it.
Technology has actually outgrown even the telephone. Not to say that it hasn’t incorporated the phone in its’ growth because it definitely has. But, today’s new technologies have gotten to the point where the phone is so much the lesser necessary evil that we’ve all come to rely on.
In this article, we are focusing on three major new innovations in the cyber-world today that, without doubt, are propelling the communications world into the future.

The three accelerating applications today are:

• The Virtual Office;
• Wiki; and
• Webconferencing

With the virtual office you can use its many applications to set up a group calendar and address book, delegate tasks to other members of the group, broadcast family or company news and perhaps shoot out reminders concerning birthdays, meetings, etc.
You set up the virtual office and you decide who becomes a member and who doesn’t, what can and cannot be shared, and who can or cannot do the sharing.
A good way to try it and find out its’ benefits in your world is to start out with a basic version which can be obtained for free. That’s always a good thing, isn’t it?

And by incorporating Wiki in your virtual office you’ll have set up a web page that you allow (or disallow) members to write, format, edit, and link information and members with permissions can edit or revise the page.

As for webconferencing, there really is really nothing simpler than setting up your own video-conferencing stations. Assuming each member of the family or your office stations already have speakers or headsets all you need is hook up the internet (broadband), a microphone and a web cameras to the computers. Bingo, you’re in there.

With your microphone and web-cam you’ve certainly cut back on any reasons (excuses) for absenteeism at any family or office meetings.

Summary:

Put three things together virtual office, Wiki, and web-conferencing, you’ll find that there is nothing that you as a group can’t do!

Already have the web-cam, speakers, and microphone? All you need for your family, workgroups and business teams to begin sharing and keeping in touch is a web-based collaboration tool.

Carol