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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.

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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.

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