Category: Tips

Every generation that leaves home seems to go further and further away. Luckily, technology like conference calls keeps getting better at bringing us closer together with face to face communication. Because when that last little duckling in the family up and flies off to University or Ireland for the first time—and the old gander and […]

Although many people prefer in-person meetings, time and money does not always make this possible. Audio and video conferencing can be the next best thing. Conference Calls still offer the productivity of having a meeting and can definitely help you save a ton of time and money. According to the Meeting in America Study conducted […]

Think back to when you were a kid. You could see your friends every day at school and it was easy to nurture relationships. Being a grownup, with a grownup job and grownup responsibilities this isn’t so easy. Let’s face it – it’s difficult to get together with friends when it doesn’t come as naturally […]

In 2002 Canadian songwriting legend Bruce Cockburn released a love song entitled "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere," which was covered in a delightful bluesy growl by Colin Linden on "Raised by Wolves," and with lovely choirboy purity by Jimmy Buffet on his album "License to Chill." If you want a potential sweetie to fall in love with […]

Old fashioned sit-down staff meetings are difficult to organize, expensive of staff time, and create debilitating information bottlenecks. Weekly sit-down meetings are like clogs in an organization's arteries. Luckily, there is a healthy, low-calorie alternative. A new office communication tool called Slack enables people in organizations to effortlessly share information with multiple teams, and free Conference Call […]

The Web is full of home schooling methods but very few of the sites know about one of the best home school resources available, which is web conferencing. Web conferencing is just a conference call, with video and a shared desktop added. Web conferencing is the free and easy way to create a virtual classroom. […]

Every once in a while in life, as Valentine's Day rolls around, we get booked into an unavoidable business trip or a family emergency happens and we find ourselves sitting in an airport feeling like we will soon be missing our sweetheart in the worst way, and wondering what we could possibly do to make […]

In the Olden Days, people used to hate going to meetings because physical travel felt like lost time; it took two hours out of your day that you couldn't get back. Sometimes we didn't even need to be there. Other people did all the talking, made the decisions, and we just sat there thinking about […]

In 2015, Lahaina Grill was voted "Best Maui Restaurant" for the 22nd consecutive year. You could get paid to sit in the grill, or on the beach out front, knocking out paragraphs for a living. It's tough work, but somebody's gotta do it. One thing though: you'll need to know how to run a virtual […]

By the time you graduate from university or college, you will have heard the lecture on "Time management" a thousand times. If you are like many students, you will have tuned it out and filed it in the back of your mind under "Later." Most students only tend to get excited about time management when […]