Video Conferencing
Basics
Video conferencing is a
part of web conferencing used to for all practical purposes, allow
those in your web conference to virtually be in the same room with
you. Video
conferencing adds new life to meetings and is very helpful in
helping to establish a personal rapport and to use one more sense
to tie people into a meeting that they would otherwise easily tune
out.
Video conferencing is
actually pretty easy, but does require that at least one party
have a web camera that is integrated into their computer system.
Such cameras are available today for $100 or less and
transmit the active video to the web conference center and then
distributed live to the participants of the conference.
Setting up the camera and the
active upload to the conference center used to take a skilled
technician. But we have found that most computer novices can manage the
installation and learn to activate the upload in a matter of
minutes.
From the users end, sharing in
video conferencing is even easier.
Users are not required to have a video camera and can enjoy
the conference by receiving the video signal with no need for them
to install any equipment.
Video conferencing is easy for
the user. They simply
call the toll-free number on their phone and then go online with
their computer. They are prompted to go to a given web page, log in using the
pass-code that you as the host give them and then they can
immediately see the broadcasted video.
As
mentioned in the article on web
conferencing, video conferencing is generally offered as an
additional feature to the web conference and not available through
all vendors.
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- Video Conferencing
