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You may start an online meeting whenever you want with on-demand web conferencing. You can schedule meetings in advance or start an instant meeting with the click of your mouse. Send invitations via email or IM–you can even start the meeting from within our secure instant messenger.

• Demonstrate products and services, share presentations in any format, and resolve open issues in real-time with our secure and reliable technology. Get integrated audio conferencing and let meeting participants call a toll-free number or receive an automated callback to the number they enter.
• Get the impact of live events, hold large scalable on-line events such as all-hands meetings, shareholder presentations, and webinars with interactive and dynamic multimedia presentations.
• Deliver interactive training, reach more people with online training and elearning when you offer on-demand and live online classrooms.
• Connect with anyone, anywhere with dynamic online sales presentations and close deals faster.

Web conferencing has become the preferred communication medium for business today. By combining the ease of audio conferencing with the interactivity of video conferencing directly from your desktop, you create a truly personalized interactive experience.

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You may have seen it, but when the President signed a pardon it was done securely over Cisco Webex. The popular show 24 either believed it is the best or it was product placement. Either way, its an incredible solution.

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How would you like to have wireless videoconferencing all in the palm of your hand so you can conference with coworkers or just one individual? It might be a lot closer than you think to have videoconferencing with multiple individuals there’s a patent that went to publication recently it has not been issued is just been published the patent number is 20060114987 you can look that up at the patent office uspto.gov and the inventors named is Kendall Roman.

Eessentially what Kendall is showing is an iPod enhanced so that you can have videoconferencing over it. Of course there is a video display, speakers, or headphones and a microphone. And this is a live transmission not prerecorded video so you can actually stream video to the other members in the videoconference.  In particular they talk about an embodiment of a video camera that can be removable or mounted on an iPod type device. In other words you would take your current iPod or iPod type device ad on their video camera it might even include a microphone or speakers and the wireless communications so that your rope and ready to go.

Now what’s interesting is it’s not just the fact that there’s a video camera this deals with video streaming and the compression of the video streaming and the sampling rates of the video frames so that they can all happen in real time to be able to compress or decompress the data.

What is interesting is how this will be used it might be tough if you’re walking down the street to hold the iPod type device that it focuses on your face and everyone else in the conference.  It would be weird if you were the one in the office and five other individuals were using this wireless videoconferencing device walking down the street and the headshot of them is bouncing up and down as they talk and you’re looking at their shoulders than their head than their hair than their feet shoulders head and hair back and forth back and forth.

However, it would be very convenient to have this device but since laptops are so small these days typically have built-in cameras tilting speakers and built-in microphones.  I’m not sure what the real application is here other than it’s very light weight also this is not unlike any other videoconference device and could be applied to any mobile phone.

Either way the idea of video telephone calls is happening all the time when there be a video telephone device or just using an application such as iChat or Skype or an application and online meeting software. Maybe you’ll have to hook this device onto a headset that holds the camera a foot from your head in focuses on your face so that it doesn’t bounce.

It will be very interesting to see if this inventor actually obtains a patent for this device and it may be that he only receives certain claims and cannot claim the whole device.  However it is good to see the people value videoconferencing more and more and particularly want to put it in the palm of your hand.

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We hope the Obama camp will choose to go green with technology. As with all change, there is an initial opportunity to lay out a road map for greener technology choices. Since they will be hiring a CTO, we hope that Chief Information Officer will choose to save on meetings and implement an across the board government requirement for online meetings whenever possible.

Not only, as we have discussed here before, will online meetings save time but travel costs as well. Imaging how much the government will save in airline flights, car travel and hotels.

There is actually a bigger opportunity here. When the government awards a contract to a contracting company the government specifies it’s requirements. They could require the contracted company to use online meetings and software. It is not uncommon for billion dollar and multi-million dollar contracts to be awarded. Imagine if a Lockheed Martin or other larger government contractor received a 1 billion dollar contract and all those individuals they employed were encouraged and required to utilize online meetings every change they got. The amount of fuel from lack of flights and amount of time, which also saves money, would be substantial.

We humbly suggest, and hope, that the Obama CTO will implement video conferencing and online meetings as a requirement. This is not a request for them to give a contract to a company to install $100,000 video conferencing units but instead to use an open source or other product to enable every government worker to host and participate in online meetings from their computer whether at work or at home.

Let’s go green and online meetings will be one of the many tools to do that.

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This holiday season I have been buying online like crazy. I have bought all my gifts online for the first time this season. Many reasons why, here is one. About two weeks ago when it was around Thanksgiving time, I got the Black Friday newspaper. That newspaper had all the advertisements for local stores prior to Black Friday. The typical electronics stores etc.

After looking at them all I happened to be online that evening. I noticed many of the same products featured in the advertisements, the discounted products and coupons were basically identical to what was online. What was more interesting was that in basically every comparison of a product at a local store as opposed to the same product online, the online pricing was better. Many of the items you are looking for, now a days online you can get domain names, rent video games, buy your cooking supplies, sneakers, pet supplies as well as medicine and even diamonds and jewelry. I never saw a local store with a cheaper price, sometimes the same, but usually online was much cheaper.

Obviously online shopping will only continue to increase. You may want to think about getting a domain name at a registrar like GoDaddy as some day you may want to sell online yourself.

I was then able to buy everything I needed without the crowded parking lots, shopping malls and all the headaches that go along with it. Just as the online meeting technology allows us to have meetings without having to move to another location, at a much cheaper price than travel, online e-commerce has now eclipsed local shopping.

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Zoho Meeting offers online solutions for global businesses. Whether you are looking for a place to hold online meetings, offer remote assistance to your customers, or showcase your products to potential clients across the globe, Zoho Meeting has a solution for you.

Zoho Meeting features a free one-on-one meeting service and has other features starting at $12 per month.

Getting started with Zoho Meeting is quick and easy. Check out the site today to see all of the amazing features Zoho Meeting has to offer.

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The possibilities are endless in today’s world of online conferencing.  For instance, teachers and students alike may now participate in free, online classroom sessions provided by WiZiQ.

WiZiQ uses a whiteboard application that lets users in a sessions see what the teacher of the session is demonstrating. This allows for easily setting up an environment for the students to learn in. One of the best parts about this application is that it requires no downloads. With just a few clicks you can get started!

The topics of the sessions range from academics to the secrets of Tarot cards. The possibilities here are endless! If you may be interested in learning something on a topic you may find - give it a shot. There’s no telling what you may find out!

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Not only does online meeting software having enormous benefits, cost included as a large one, but now complicated phone systems are becoming a thing of the past. Having a toll free number used to be a real pain and quite difficult, however now it is easier than ever. Take a look at the features, cost, and benefits of one particular service, RingCentral, below.

Imagine obtaining a toll free number and all the features of a PBX but without any hardware. Then add on costs of just $9.99 a month (and up depending on plan). That is RingCentral, an nline Web-based telephone and fax service for professionals and small businesses. It provides a toll free or local phone number and advanced features not found in traditional phone systems.

Boost your business image and accessibility immediately with a toll free number. The toll free number gives a nationwide, big business image and allows customers to call you for free, making it more likely that they’ll call. Activated immediately, your toll free number comes with the complete line of RingCentral advanced telephone and fax features that gives you all the functions of a PBX without the expense.

• Choose an 800, 888, 877, 866 or vanity number
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• Rates as low as 3.9¢/min - no double billing
• RingCentral will not double charge for domestic forwarded calls. Some competitors advertise 2.9¢/min rate but actually charge 5.8¢ for a 1-minute conversation because they charge for both ends of the call: the incoming call and your answering time. At RingCentral, there are no hidden charges.
• Route calls to any phone worldwide
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RingCentral Online provides toll free numbers, voicemail, fax, and more.  Delivers all the power of a big company system but with no hardware to buy and nothing to maintain. It’s an ideal telecommunications solution for small businesses, home offices, and mobile professionals.

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According to the HSMAI, an organization of sales and marketing professionals representing all segments of the hospitality industry, online meetings and other related technology are on the rise.

They stated the majority of meeting and event planners (57.5 percent) said they are incorporating technology into their meetings with the use of online registration, followed by video conferencing (20.4 percent), social networks (17.7 percent) and blogs (14.2 percent)

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