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Online business meeting is a fact of life. Even companies that have a regional outlook and don’t seek any overseas market will find that their supplies will often come from outside their own country.
Add in mergers and purchases in the international business community, and just about any business might find itself doing business with people around the world.
It is often not possible or not cost-effective to send key personnel around the world, and it is also likely that they’d need to talk to people who are in more than one place in any event.
The next best thing to having everyone in one room to talk matters over, is to get them to talk matters over from where they are, while letting them use as many of the advantages of being in one place together as possible.
It is in this setting that the online meeting comes into its own. In its simplest form, a business can contract an online business meeting service.
They would then use a computer connected to the internet and a phone to connect to their counterparts and use the service’s programs to allow all involved to look at the same things on their computer screens while talking about the content on a standard phone line.
Beyond that bare bones description, there are options providing more capabilities, such as real time collaboration on files, different types of content supported and surveys about the content of a presentation.
There are programs you can buy to allow hosting your own online business meetings as well, if paying someone else to handle it becomes less attractive.
These meetings can be planning conferences, liaison to ensure something already underway occurs smoothly or a conference on something that has already happened. They can be conferencing about proposals, attempts to make a case for a decision, explaining facts on the ground or many other purposes.
Webdialogs is a company providing online meetings hosting. They provide means to manage the audience, for audience members to “raise their hands,” polling, recording the session and handoffs from one moderator or trainer to another.
Internet audio is supported too. Their company website says pricing starts at ten cents per minute and there is a fourteen day free trial available.
VIA3 is another business online meeting service, offering integrated live video, phone quality internet audio, application viewing, joint document editing, instant messaging and information sharing. The pricing available requires contacting a sales representative, but there is a ninety-day trail option including the first thirty days free.
WebEx is another contender in the online business meeting field, and also provides a free fourteen day trial. WebEx stresses their security and reliability. WebEx is a worldwide company with offices on four continents, providing knowledge of local conditions.
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