Web Conferencing in Businesses

 

Many businesses are discovering the advantages of using web conferencing. From reduced costs in travel, to improved efficiency in sales and support, web conferencing is quickly becoming an indispensable tool for any sized business.

But one thing to always keep in mind when choosing your online tools are the requirements and ease of use for people that will be taking advantage of the tool. Our mission of “inclusion” means that the driving force behind our development is making sure that people will be able to use the service regardless of the tools or systems they use. Many other web conferencing systems require a broadband connection to participate, for example. Others are only available on Windows or are only in English. And almost all are totally inaccessible to blind or low-vision users. The result is that your business may find it hard for users to participate because of a disability, or because they are in a rural area with no broadband access, or simply because you work with a non-English speaking company abroad.

Another obstacle to implementing web-conferencing into a business is the learning curve. Many systems are complicated and not inherently simple to understand. We have taken great care to make sure that our system ease as easy to use as possible.

1) Install the software with 1 click.

2) click the link to enter.

3) type your name and password.

Once in the virtual room, everything is easy to see and easy to understand. Speaking works just like a walkie-talkie: press control key to speak and release it when done. If you look carefully at your own business, you will probably find success in the same concept: The easier, the better.

There are a number of features which makes virtual meetings in Talking Communities heads and tails above the rest. The ability to easily record any meeting and then instantly publish it for anyone absent to see later, for example. Or the ability to rate the meeting and perform instant polls. But possibly the greatest feature for online meetings is the ability to play a recorded presentation to a live audience. This means you can record the entire presentation (including voice and PowerPoint slides or other documents) and then at the time of the meeting simply hit the Play button to give your presentation live to the other meeting participants.
 

Finally, one aspect that has arisen recently in web conferencing for businesses is the security. We have done due diligence to make sure that all software is free of any exploits or security holes using industry-approved third party tools such as Coverity. We have taken care to make sure that even if the software were to be hacked that no administration actions can be taken by a user without first logging in using the correct password. We have also enabled all hosting of documents to be possible through your own domain and servers, so your are never “required” to host anything on a public server that could be compromised.