Category: Tips

Writers are famous for being a solitary, grouchy bunch, who warm their tired fingers by feeding critical reviews of their work into rusty wood stoves, in mossy-roofed cabins perched on lonely mountain slopes. But actually, we need feedback, and to see a fresh face now and again. Say, once a month or so. That's what […]

  Keeping your conference call a positive experience for all parties can be a little tricky, but FreeConference.com offers tools to make everything run more smoothly. Check out these tips for a more productive conference call: Use Moderator Controls Keep your participants muted for as much of the call as possible. The call Organizer can […]

If you've always wanted to include a Harvard education on your résumé, but didn't think you could travel that far, or afford the tuition cost, you should check out Harvard's new web conferencing academic courses. A new technology called "web conference calls" has just made a pre kindergarten education accessible to anyone, from anywhere. Harvard, and […]

Time. There’s never enough, is there? We all start out with a finite amount of time on the planet; it’s up to us to make the best of it. But how? Conference calls are a fantastic way to be more productive with your time: How many hours have been wasted trying to get everyone together in one […]

In the old days of business, a manager woke up every day and went to the office, worked 9 to 5 and came home. Once home, they would be completely shut off from the world. Nowadays it’s not so easy... or not so hard, depending on how you look at it! A manager nearly always […]

Don't professors and teachers just seem to love dishing out group projects? They don't just want students to learn, they want to see how they work together as a team. They want to see how students negotiate through difficulties, like the team members who don’t do their part. (There is always one of those!) They […]

Here at FreeConference.com, we’ve always prided ourselves on worldwide access to our services. Case in point: Our ever increasing selection of dedicated international dial-in numbers. Our free plan offers dial-in numbers in nearly twenty countries so that you’ll always have a conference line available to you, wherever you are in the world. Upgrade to any […]

Long distance education used to be the poor cousin of "bricks and mortar" learning. If you couldn't afford the time or expense of day school, you would take a "correspondence course," and "snail mail" your lessons and instructions back and forth. Times have changed. Convenient conference call technology has made education more accessible, and "eLearning" […]

Imagine having a client in London and a supplier in Germany, all while you’re in the United States. You need to connect and want an inexpensive way to do it, but traveling for business can be costly Flights, hotels, per-diem, travel time, and more. All of these can add up. If you could have a […]

Phone calls in Japan “Moshi moshi”. In Japan, that’s how you would greet someone when calling on the phone. If you’re calling them at home, after the "moshi moshi” you'd give your name using a phrase like "[name] desu redo”, or "[name] de gozaimasu ga” if you wanted to be even more polite. The phrase […]