Manage Your Business from the Cloud | Collaborate Meetings Home / How To / How to Manage Your Meetings from the Cloud Smartphones, tablets and an ever-growing selection of intuitive web applications have made migrating one’s business to the cloud easier than ever. For planners who travel often and have clients and colleagues in other parts of the country, working from the cloud gives everyone involved access to the latest versions of files (contracts, event schedules, speaker bios, etc.) anywhere, anytime. No more waiting until you get back to the office to update the team. Cloud-based solutions are good for the environment (goodbye paper waste!) Cloud Computing: In the Office Cloud-Based Document Storage Jim Spellos, CMP, president of Meeting U., a company that brings planners up to speed with the latest apps and tools through its technology courses, advises starting the paperless process with a cloud-based storage surface. Internal Meetings and Collaboration Accounting and Bookkeeping Cloud Computing: On-Site at Meetings
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Online Meeting Tools and Technical Communication Teams Here at TechWhirl, we use a lot of neat technology to make our collaborations and meetings as easy and efficient as possible. The reality is, thanks to the wide availability of the internet, we can work anywhere at any time without the need of meeting in a physical or centralized office. Without a physical location to meet, we technical communicators need a central location to conduct business and have virtual “face-to-face” meetings. With that in mind, what kind of online meeting tools are available that technical communicators can take advantage of which can improve productivity, be simple to use and hassle-free, and also affordable? For most professionals who use online meeting tools, the most important part of this type of software service in order of importance is reliability, features, and ease of use. We’ve looked at a mix of known, unknown, free and paid services out there, such as WebEx, GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, Microsoft Lync, JoinMe, Google+, Skype, and UberConference.
Tips for More Effective Business Meetings Jul 23 2010 Whether we like it or not, most of our professional lives are going to have their fair share of time spent in meetings. Be it with our coworkers or clients, a measurable fraction of our working lives will more than likely be taken up in an engaged discussion of tactics, projects, progress, etc. Unfortunately, many of us in the professional world absolutely detest meetings, and abhor giving up any of our precious time to them as they usually end up being a complete waste of that time. It’s not necessarily our faults that our tend meetings tend to fall short of our expectations given that most of us have not had the best models to learn from. Consider some of our previous articles Getting Clients: Approaching The Company a post from the Smashing vaults about how to handle your initial client meetings.8 Strategies For Successful Relations With Clients is another post from the Smashing archives with advice on dealing with clients. Meetings With Co-Workers Appoint a Runner The Agenda
UberConference - Web - English - Evernote Trunk Screenshots Overview UberConference is a free visual phone conferencing service that lets you share Evernote notes during calls. After the call UberConference will automatically save call summaries to your Evernote account. Virtual Meetings Will Erase Face to Face Pro: The Same Event for Less by Brent Arslaner, Unisfair Inc. Consider these facts: Cisco Systems canceled its sales training this year. In these tough economic times, advancing technologies are making virtual events not only a less expensive replacement for physical meetings but also a superior one. The technology allows the virtual attendees to “enter” a building that can look like any convention center or meeting place. This means saving 50% to 80% by wiping out the costs of venue rental, hotel rooms, transportation, and packing and shipping displays. The convenience, increased productivity, and cost savings of hosting virtual events make them an inevitable replacement for physical events. Con: Can’t Replace Face to Face by Spencer Jarrett, InVision Communications Asking if virtual meetings will replace live meetings is like asking if singles’ chat rooms will replace real dating.
Tools for Virtual Business Meetings Gone are the days of conference rooms filled with water glasses, pastries, and business gurus in stuffy suits. Modern business professionals spend little time collaborating face-to-face, but rather through digital form. Globalization has transformed the way people do business. Today, employees are spread across the globe and virtual meetings have become essential for keeping things running smoothly. Online business meetings are fast becoming the norm in modern professional culture. There are numerous practical tools that can help you launch successful virtual meetings. Teleconferencing Teleconferencing is not a new phenomenon, but it is becoming more widely used to conduct virtual meetings. Videoconferencing Videoconferencing requires more technical equipment, yet it is the next best thing to a face-to-face meeting. Chat Conferencing Chat applications are quickly becoming the most valuable and practical online meeting tools. Wiki Applications
Michal Tsur: 7 Reasons Virtual Conferences Will Transform Industries Worldwide Until a couple of years ago, I never seriously considered attending or launching a virtual conference. It seemed to me that I would miss out on the main benefits that I found in face-to-face conferences - networking, meeting new people and enjoying the exhibit hall browsing experience. But after attending and later exhibiting at Campus Technology's virtual conference, my perception started to change, and we subsequently decided to try hosting one at my company, Kaltura. In the past, hosting major conferences was a luxury typically affordable to only large corporations and businesses with deep pockets. Today, organizations of all sizes are empowered by the Web and the reduction in production costs to host their own conferences - virtually (provided that they can create interesting, valuable and engaging content). The event was extremely successful. Virtual conferences are not only an amazing marketing tool, but also a great networking and learning experience for audiences attending them.
Virtual Meetings Using virtual meeting technologies is one of our key methods in reducing our carbon footprint, as well as saving time and money. Research suggests that using virtual meeting technologies has saved the University approx. £150,000 out of our 1.5M business travel budget; (10% of our business travel budget). We have also saved 9 tonnes of CO2 emissions; (1% of our business travel carbon). Virtual meeting tools can serve many purposes. For example, it can be used for quick meetings between staff and as a remote teaching and learning tool; researchers from around the world can be invited to give lectures and presentations! You can also host or attend virtual conferences and have corporate meetings. We do not expect these virtual meeting technologies to completely replace business travel. The UoB has a range of virtual meeting technologies available to suit all your needs: Journey Planner Journey Planner will open in a new window. Smart Mover Are you a smart mover? Contact: ecoversity@bradford.ac.uk
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