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Slack Integration with Conference Calls
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 […]
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How to Utilize Video Conferencing in the Classroom
Imagine bringing a NASA astronaut into your classroom to tell your students about what it’s like to spend a day in the international space station. Does this idea seem far-fetched? It shouldn’t! With online conference and video calling on your side, the sky really is the limit for your class. This guide illustrates the nearly […]
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Why Web Conferencing is great for Homeschooling
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. […]
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How to use conference calls on Valentine's Day
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 […]
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Participatory Education and Conference Calls
What You Need To Know About Participatory Education and Conference Calls Let’s start with the basics. The reason why participatory education was created was to give the people a way to better their own lives through education. Participatory education is where students get as equal a say in the shaping of class curriculum and activities […]
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Free Web Meetings: A Superior Species
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 […]
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How to get paid to sit on a beach and write
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 […]
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Let Web Conferencing Do The Heavy Lifting
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 […]
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How to be a good conference caller
Conference calls are an effective communication tool for building team spirit and good "corporate culture." Although the organization benefits from well made conference calls through increased productivity and profitability, the employees benefit too, because it is way more fun to work in a happy, engaged workplace. That is, if everyone pulls together, and knows how […]
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Conference Calls Weren't Always So Easy
Teleconferencing (conference call) is becoming a core communication technology for everyone, from businesses to non-profit organizations to families. It has revolutionized communication in much the same way as the cellphones completely revolutionized personal communication, and for the same reason. Simplicity. But free conference calls weren't always so easy.
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The Guide to Holding Effective Business Conference Calls
The Guide to Holding Effective Business Conference Call Business conference calls are essential to keep everyone in your company connected and informed, but because are usually quick to forget the fact that conference calls need to be productive too. Fun fact: did you know that no one is actually paying attention on your conference calls? […]
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Why Teleconference is better than "Telepresence"
What is a "Telepresence"? The word "telepresence" conjures up images of the movie Avatar. It is supposed to imply that you actually have a "presence" in the room. Telepresence is a glossy marketing term that really means: "unnecessarily expensive teleconference". A standard video conference call will give you exactly the same "presence" in a room. […]
