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Collaboration Perks of Video Conferencing for You and Your Remote Teams

June 23, 2016 by Paul Salmon

Collaboration at the workplace is evolving. One thing that seems to affect its growth in leaps and bounds is video conferencing technology. If you’re still sitting on the fence and wondering how it can improve collaboration efforts among your offsite employees, read on.

How IT Companies Can Use Video Conferencing to Enhance their Operations

April 26, 2016 by Paul Salmon

IT companies can use video conferencing in a wide variety of potential applications ranging from its use in IT support services to helping the company communicate with its different branches that are in multiple international locations. Knowing what video conferencing can do and how you can utilize it to its fullest is an advantage that should not be ignored.

Cloud Based Video Conferencing Can Be a Bridge

August 19, 2015 by Paul Salmon

Updating software is a pain. It’s supposed to automatically update, but it usually doesn’t. Meanwhile, your computer or network probably is vulnerable to the latest Internet virus. Then there are the updates you don’t want because you’re working, and you don’t have time to stop and restart your computer.

Things can be even worse when you’re dealing with video conferencing software. Does everyone on the call have the latest update? Probably not. This can cause real problems. Who cares about a pretty new graphic interface, when the video feed goes black on three screens right before a presentation? All because one software update suddenly made Skype incompatible with OS X.

If only there was a way to bridge all the different software programs on local computers or networks regardless of version to a single video conferencing solution. Then you wouldn’t have to call your local IT guy who’s afraid of Macs or always wants to trouble shoot over the phone. You know, the guy who can’t get the Flash plugin to work right in Firefox?

Time to Move Beyond Business Traveling and Traditional Meetings

May 22, 2015 by Paul Salmon

Business meetings are an old standby, as integral to most companies as a smile and a handshake. They’re the basic unit that measures how business gets done. But they’re also time-consuming and often inefficient, especially when it comes to getting multiple people in the same room. Travel time and travel expenses can drain a budget, especially for small businesses.

A survey conducted by the New York Times found that small businesses are hit disproportionately hard by travel and meeting expenses: they often find themselves sending fewer people longer distances, and that time lost to travel adds up quickly when you don’t have many people to spare.

But what could replace something as simple and unavoidable as a business meeting? Thanks to the Internet, there’s a new possibility out there: video conferencing.

Using Your NOOK for Video Conferencing

April 9, 2015 by Paul Salmon

NOOK’s new Samsung Galaxy Tab comes with a huge list of excellent new features, from the inclusion of streamlined and personalized apps to the exclusion of permanent “in your face” widgets that may not even be relevant to your preferences, but by far one of the best is the new NOOK runs Android 4.4 out of the box, giving it all the functions of a standard 7-inch Android tablet without the same “bloatware” apps and features found in most tablets. This allows users to go from using their NOOK strictly as a digital library to utilizing it in other leisure activities, school and even business.

The fact that Samsung’s NOOK features a crisp front-facing camera, like its non-Barnes and Noble sibling the Galaxy Tab 4, even makes it possible to use the device for video communications such as Skype and other video conferences. Most smartphones are capable of the same thing, but using a compact tablet or eReader offers the benefit of a larger, higher definition, brighter screen; this makes for better viewing quality and better lighting for anyone on the other end.

What do you need to turn your eReader from a colorful portable bookshelf to a mobile video conferencing powerhouse? As it turns out, not much.

How to Get the Most Out of Your Video Conferencing Platform

January 28, 2015 by Paul Salmon

Video conferencing platforms have come a long way in increasing productivity and improving overall communication within businesses. Most business owners are aware of the basics.

They presume that video conferencing can allow for telecommunications or business meetings when participants are in different cities. While this is, of course, true, video conferencing offers even more benefits. Here are some that you should consider.

Importance of Body Language in Video Conferencing

October 22, 2014 by Paul Salmon

While what you’re saying in a video conferencing meeting is very important, so is how you are saying it. Presentation and body language go a long way toward conveying what you want to say and engaging your peers. If you you’re your next meeting to be more than just another webinar, you need to consider how you come across to your viewers.

Video conferencing meetings are collaborative and engaging experiences when done correctly, simply because they let others see a real person and not just a voice on the other end of the line.

The Rise of Video Conferencing [Infographic]

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 by Paul Salmon

As technology becomes ever-more sophisticated, it can help us to change the way we do business, streamlining processes helping us to save time and money. A technological advancement that is being used by more and more companies is video conferencing. A recent survey by Powwownow discovered that how video conferencing is affecting the way more and more businesses have meetings and communicate with each other.