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Advantages and Disadvantages Of Audio Conferencing

What provider should I pick for audio, web and video conferencing services?

Is the sheer amount of information about voice and web conferencing on the Internet starting to boggle your mind?  Are the thousands of service providers out there hawking their wares enough to make you want to scream?

Fret no more, because we've compiled some basic information on a selection of several different service providers that might help you make your choice.  So snap on those headsets, limber up those phone-dialing fingers, and read on for audio and video conferencing solutions to your communication problems.

Sprint Audio Conferencing

Sprint offers a voice conferencing service for business and individuals alike.  Aptly named InterCall, this service allows up to 125 participants to throw an audio conferencing party without even having to RSVP. 

Sprint also offers web conferencing services, for when your voice just isn't enough and you need face-to-face interaction.  At www.sprint.com under the Business section, click on the Conferencing heading for more information.

Raindance Online Meetings

Raindance is a communications provider that specializes in online meetings, seminars and audio conferencing.  Raindance gives the user the option of having an operator-assisted audio conference or a fully independent, just enter your 800 number and security codes, and you're good to go conference. 

This provider allows you to record your meeting, control participant lines, secure meetings, and also enables you to track your conference-related spending online.  This makes for happy accounting departments.  Check out http://www.raindance.com/ for further reading.

HearMe.com Video Audio Conferencing

Supplying both video and audio conferencing for a communications-hungry workforce, HearMe.com promises to let you "Be Seen" and "Be Heard."  For someone like Paris Hilton, this is a dream come true.  HearMe.com charges a flat fee per month for unlimited use of both video and voice conferencing. To learn more, visit http://www.hearme.com/.

Genesys Conferencing Multilingual

A well-rounded conferencing company, Genesys offers all forms of audio, web and video conferencing.  They have nifty Meeting Centers that do everything but type proposals and are available in English, Swedish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Japanese if your conferencing needs to be multi-lingual. 

If your Internet service is on the fritz as mine often is, you can open a virtual conference room by phone.  Find Genesys Conferencing here: http://www.genesys.com/.

WebEx Web Communication

A frontrunner in the wide and wonderful world of web communication, WebEx offers conferencing that uses either integrated VoIP or traditional teleconferencing. 

And if you were wondering, VoIP stands for "Voice over IP," not "Vote Oprah into Presidency." WebEx offers the following features for their audio conferencing: noise reduction, security, outbound calling, and the ability to host large or small scale events.  WebEx can be found at www.webex.com.

No matter which conferencing company you decide on, rest assured that your newfound method of audio or video conferencing will be much more productive and economical than the old-fashioned way. 

Who needs the hassle of making reservations for 75 people to use the phone at the same time, or even worse, make sure that 75 flights arrive when they are supposed to?  Not to mention the huge pain in the neck of booking the 75 requisite hotel rooms. 

Compared to video teleconferencing, audio conferencing can quick, easy and cheap.  The disadvantage is that you lose the impact of a visual presentation.

And if your productivity and business smart economics of online communications still doesn't impress your friends and co-workers, you can always brag that you know what VoIP means and they don't!

Web video conferencing is here now. 
     Bruce Chandler

Audio Conferencing Solutions Web