Video Conferencing Photography Shack Guide
Video Conferencing For All Your Meetings
By Jane Lovell
Video conferencing allows you to meet other people
in your organization without having to physically be
there in the same room. Saves a fortune on air travel.
Spending less time on the road, means more time to do
your work and become more efficient.
You may be part of an organization or run your business
from home, and you do not want to spend time traveling
to and from an office. The office may be in the same
town, another state or in another country. You will
spend too much time on the road if you have to be physically
available for every meeting.
Video conferencing allows you to meet people and exchange
ideas as if you were all in the same room. You may still
meet every now and then, for important meetings, for
example meeting a new client, but for all other meetings,
it may be more convenient to use video conferencing.
Ancient Video Conferencing
My first experience with video web conferencing did
not leave me with a very good impression. The boss of
the shop I was working for was very impressed with the
video conference system, in the same way he would have
been impressed with any high-tech toy or gadget he had.
Video conferencing allowed us to talk to every shop
across the nation, giving us access to thousands of
working stiffs just like ourselves learning an abridged
version of the heating and cooling trade. The place
I was working for was not an honest shop. Basically,
we were given minimal training and sent out into the
field to sell people whatever we could.
The videoconferencing was just another way that they
could try to pressure us into making more sales, something
that was hard for us to do with only a vague idea of
how the heating business worked. Then, to top it all
off, the video conferencing equipment broke at the end
of the meeting.
Audio Video Conferencing
When, years later, one of my business partners suggested
using audio video conferencing, I was diplomatic but
firm. I had no interest in a videoconference. In my
opinion, video teleconferencing is one of the great
broken promises of the high-tech age – second only to
virtual reality.
In theory, it seems like a great idea that will revolutionize
business. In practice, however, it is totally unnecessary
and a waste of time. There is nothing that you can tell
someone over a video conference link that you couldn’t
send an e-mail about, or so I thought.
Video Conferencing Meeting
Nonetheless, the partner was insistent, and soon we
set up a video conferencing meeting room to try the
system out. He was generous enough to furnish the system
himself so we had nothing lost to the venture. I had
expected online teleconferencing to waste exponentially
more time than e-mail.
The E-mails people sent were stupid, but contemplating
the endless things that they would say in an international
meeting involving hundreds of different representatives
from six different businesses was nightmarish. I figured
that I would never get out of the video conferencing
meeting alive.
In fact, it wasn’t half as bad as I had thought. It
might be that some people are still scared of the technology,
but as it was only the key members of each business
who had anything to say. Everyone else just sat there
quietly and listened, and we got business done pretty
fast.
Although I wouldn’t switch to video conferencing over
more traditional means of communication, I am definitely
more open to it than I was before.
The Convenience Of Video Conferencing
Video conferencing is more convenient as you do not
have to travel long distances and all be in the same
office to have a meeting. You can be in different towns,
different countries and communicate as if you were all
in the same room.
A lot of home businesses now use live web cam to discuss
business with clients. They do not have to travel to
the premises of the client, they can discuss business
needs using a live web cam, from the comfort of their
own home.
A lot of people these days run their business from
home. Some need to look after their family, as they
may have a disabled or a frail family member who needs
constant care. Being able to run your business from
home allows you to allocate your own time to run your
business and to care for your family.
This is one of the many reasons, video conferencing
is an indefensible tool when running your business from
home.
About the Author:
Jane Lovell has written a number of articles on digital
photography including Photographer
School, Mini
Digital Camera, Portrait
Photography, Baby
Photography, Still
Photography, Boudoir
Photography, Art
Of Photography, Amateur
Photography, Photography
Backdrop, Photography
Tips, Digital
Photography Tips, Photography
Studio.
Keep a lookout as more articles appear from this author
on this website in the near future.
More Camcorder Facts....
What do you do when you need to capture a special or
exciting moment on video? You do not want to use a cell
phone. That does not give you the clear, crisp quality
picture and sound that you need.
You want to use a camcorder to do the job. Camcorders
are very inexpensive now compared to what they used
to be. New models combine the use of a digital camera
with the camcorder ability to record video, so you have
the best of both worlds.
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