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DO YOU FEEL AS IF YOUR CALENDAR is under constant bombardment with meetings, client consultations, events and to-do's? Do you know how to use calendars such as Google Calendar or [...]

1 Does the meeting require your collaboration? If so, then you want to be able to participate as fully as possible, which means attendees both seeing and hearing you. Your [...]

a new generation of hardware is making it easier than ever to record, manage and distribute almost any type of presentation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No matter where you work, by now […]

Choices are great, but ... These days, there are more ways to communicate a message than there have ever been--in the history of civilization. That's not an overstatement, it's an […]

Conferencing--particularly video, but also high-quality/hightouch/high-capacity audioconferencing--used to be complex and expensive. Over the past three years, however, a group of innovative, aggressive companies--sophisticated in the ways of signal processing, packet-network […]

The results were astounding: In three months Top-10 Promotions had more than doubled its closing rate. "We used to make one sale for every 6.9 presentations," says David Smith, president […]

Forty-eight percent of 2,390 respondents to a CIO.com Quick Poll say their organizations have implemented new policies banning nonessential travel requiring flight, with the slowed economy and the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001, cited as reasons. As a consequence, CIOs are paying renewed attention to conferencing technologies.

Ever since Mitel Networks turned to video conferencing, Senior Instruction Associate Jay Cohan concedes he is no longer the star of the training sessions he conducts for the technicians that [...]

The increase and adaptability of networks have brought a tremendous increase in telecommuting from home (Harkness 1986 and Kraut 1989) as well as mobile work from customer sites (Sproull and [...]

PictureTel Co attributes the profits they have generated to the efficient teamwork of its Senior VP and CFO Leo B. Strauss and Treasurer and Finance and Adminstration VP Joan M. Nevins. Nevin started working as PictureTel's only CFO in 1986 when the company needed to raise capital just before launching its first product in the market. Strauss, on the other hand, joined the firm when revenues started to increase. However, the two have worked together sustaining the revenues through the recession.

Several years ago, Mathew Boland, now public affairs manager for TelstraClear, participated in a job interview using videoconferencing. It wasn't an enjoyable experience. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'It was almost impossible to [...]

A global video conference was held between 180 participants who were situated around the world. Between 20 and 30 people watched a screen at each base and the groups had someone acting as facilitator, plus a person for technical support. The first day began at 9.00 a.m. British time and finished at 5.00 p.m.. Good organisation and timing are vital if video conferencing is to work effectively. Making it fun is also important to make up for the lack of real contact between people. There were savings in time and cost but the process itself is expensive.

Byline: Penny Crosman In the rocky plateau of Northern Ontario, where bank branches are few and far between, it's not easy for a financial planner to reach all of his [...]

By Michael Miley The word "meeting" is a dirty word at many organizations. While group discussions are aimed at increasing productivity, too often their result is exactly the opposite: Travel […]

Point your Web browser to www.companygreenhouse.com. Dial into the conference call, where your counterparts in Dallas, St. Louis, Boston, and Seattle are waiting. Push your phone's speaker button to fill [...]

Global companies build IP-based videoconferencing networks to link project teams. By Evan Rosen Large companies with project teams spread over several countries and multiple time zones are increasingly turning to […]

Sidebar 1 Videoconferencing: This tool lets people see each other as they talk. A point-to-point videoconference connects two locations, while a multipoint videoconference links three or more sites. Most legacy […]

Increased bandwidth and upgraded infrastructure tamed burgeoning data networks in the 1990s. New applications have recently converged on the networks, however, and returned them to the wilderness. The integration of […]

IT is obvious that after the events of Sept. 11, more businesses will consider conducting meetings by videoconferencing rather than flying their executives to distant locations. What may not be [...]

There are two 'how-to' questions when it comes to videoconferencing: the technical how-to and the presentation how-to. On the technical side, there are a few basic options, according to Gil [...]

Problem: XYZ Inc. has four locations. The company has been trying to reduce travel costs. However, it still has a need to communicate effectively between offices. While audio confer works […]

Needed now more than ever The events of September 11 created a context, demand, and requirement for organizational use of digital collaboration, now more than ever. Organizations that had previously […]

There are two how-to questions when it comes to videoconferencing: Technical how-to and presentation how-to. On the technical side, there are a few basic options, according to Gil Gordon, vice [...]

Videoconferencing has become cheaper, letting companies save time and money on travel expenses. Becky Nickol used to spend a lot of time on the road. A business coach for Maitland-based [...]

Austin is at the center of a British company's emphasis on a new business model. At a June 28 meeting, RMR PLC's board began discussions on how to expand the [...]

What happens when a market-leading company ignores customers' needs and fails to launch a viable product in more than a year? Just ask PictureTel. The Andover, Mass., company was the […]

As I have mentioned in previous articles, videoconferencing is changing the way business is conducted, and also how education services are delivered. Although there has been a meteoric rise in [...]

As the language of the Net crops up more and more offline, not knowing your alpha geeks from your trolls can be a problem. John Morris tells you how not […]

Be sure to consider the technology behind the presentation There are really two 'how-to' questions when it comes to videoconferencing: the technical how-to and the presentation how-to. One is fairly [...]

The advantages of videoconferencing include improved communications, enhanced productivity, efficiency and business opportunities, and cost cutting in terms of travel expenses. Integrated Services Digital Network can be used to design more efficient networks to contain the costs of videoconferencing. As the price of end user equipment has gone down, controlling costs will largely be through managing network access charges. Techniques in controlling access expenses are presented., More effective network design rather than new technology may move video into the mainstream. Videoconferencing promises increased productivity and efficiency, improved communications, enhanced business opportunities and reduced travel expenses. Yet [...]

Cell phones beeping. Tapping pencils. Checking email. Texting. These practices are annoying enough during a face to face meeting, but during a videoconference they can be downright detrimental. Not only [...]

Hill Wallack LLP is not your typical poster-firm for new media marketing. Although we have a few blogs, we do not yet have video on our Web site or invite [...]

While it might never fully replace the personal classroom experience between educator and pupil, some continuing education courses could take on a whole new look some day if the experience [...]

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR NEWMONT MINING, NORTH AMERICA'S LARGEST GOLD PRODUCER, GATHERS IN either Denver or New York to discuss the company's operations, dissect finances and [...]