Conference calls are no longer the expensive privilege of big corporations. They have become so cheap and cheerful that churches are using them to broadcast sermons, and many other grassroots community organizations are keeping in touch and promoting better communication with teleconference technology. But each organization has its own unique structure and operations. Could Alcoholics […]
The Internet has completely changed the landscape for freelance writers, opening up new markets, and allowing us to live where we want, but still find the right employers, wherever they might be. The Cloud has changed the economics of writing, too. Freelance writers use free online meetings to cut overhead costs, so we can charge […]
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 […]
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 […]
Roscoe C. of Washington DC!!! Congratulations to our FreeConference.com iPad winner and a huge Thank You to everyone who filled out our survey – your feedback is incredibly important to us. We take everyone’s opinions and suggestions to heart and will be making some cool updates to the FreeConference.com site, and to our Mobile Apps […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
