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4 Benefits of Web Conferencing Training Courses
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" […]
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How Conference Calls Can Help You Do Business Around the World
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 […]
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Interesting Facts about Conferencing Around the World
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 […]
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Conference Calls Keep Families Together with Face to Face Communication
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 […]
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How Conference Calls Save Time and Money
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 […]
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New FC Feature: What is document sharing? How can it help me or my business?
Most users think of conference calls as an audio-only medium. Not any more! FreeConference.com is bringing the visual component to conference calling, and it’s easier than ever to get up and running in no time. Your FreeConference.com account provides you with a link you can use to start a conference whenever, wherever you want; send […]
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Connect with your Friends this Month No Matter the Distance
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 […]
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Why Web Meetings are the Best Meetings
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 […]
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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 […]
