Web Conferencing Tool Reduce Your Communication Costs

For most people in Business, meetings are a necessary evil. Stop for a moment and consider how much hosting or attending meetings cost your Business and you may be in for a surprise; precious time spent traveling to and from the meeting location, travel expenses, and in some cases the hire of the meeting facility. Now imagine you could attend that meeting without having to leave your office or Home. How much time and money would save over a week, a month or a year? It soon adds up.

The cost savings associated with web conferencing are well documented. Less time and money are spent on traveling, there is no need to hire meeting facilities and staff can focus on doing their jobs well instead of scheduling meetings.

Save On Traveling Expenses

Travel does not come cheap. Whether it's national or international or by air, land or sea there will always be a cost implication for your Business; air tickets, parking tolls, hotel accommodation - all these costs will affect your bottom line.

Web conferencing reduces the need for travel. Face to face meetings can be conducted via the web, from multiple geographic locations. Airport delays, flight cancellations, traffic jams on the freeway - all these irritations are not only affecting your blood pressure but are costing your company money, too. All that time wasted while you wait for your flight to be called or the jam to clear is money down the drain. Web conferencing cuts out not just the frustrations but also the financial price of wasting time.

Saving Time Equals Saving Money

It's not just travel delays that waste time and costs money. Time is spent organizing meetings and getting busy colleagues together in the same place on the same day can be a complicated task. Someone within your organization is having to spend time pulling it all together. This is time that could be better spent generating sales and income for your Business.

Web conferencing allows your workforce to work smarter. With web conferencing, a meeting that before may have taken a member of staff out the office for several days, can be concluded in a matter of hour, freeing up extra time. A few extra hours in the week to get the job done is something most employees would appreciate.

Work Smarter And Reduce Costs

Document sharing is one of the many facilities available through web conferencing. Documents can be viewed simultaneously by individuals, regardless of where they are located. Projects can be completed more quickly and more accurately. Documents can be updated in real time and colleagues can edit them together. In the absence of web conferencing, this form of collaboration would require an element of travel, costing the Business time and money.

There is a personal upside for employees who have their Business travel reduced, too. Less time spent traveling for work means they have more time at home with their families and staff who are happier in their Home lives are likely to be more productive during their working hours.

Diane Parker is a freelance writer and technology enthusiast providing valuable information including: web conferencing software, choosing a web conferencing tool and internet conferencing.

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Basic Video Conferencing

What is Video Conferencing: Video conferencing is the integration of video, audio and peripherals to enable two or more people to communicate simultaneously over some type of telecommunications lines. By video conferencing you are transmitting synchronized images and verbal communications between two or more locations in lieu of them being in the same room.

Video conferencing ingredients: The main ingredients of successful video conferencing are video cameras, microphones, appropriate computer software and computer equipment and peripherals that will integrate with the transmission lines to relay the information.

How video conferencing works: The analog information recorded by the microphones and cameras is broken down into discreet units, translating it to ones and zeros. A Codec encodes the information to a digital signal that can then be transmitted to a codec at the other end, which will retranslate these digital signals back into analog video images and audio sounds.

In the earlier days, video conferencing was very much expensive than today. Some time back video conferencing was used by T1, ATM and ISDN lines. These all process were very costly for video conferencing. Since internet is very cheap and it is a very good medium for video conferencing. The TCP/IP connections of the Internet are much less expensive and can carry large quantities of information for video conferencing, including video packets for conferencing, relatively easily. Because of this, video conferencing has become much more prevalent in small Businesses and in desktop packages that can be set up with software for computer-to-computer networking.

The problem faced was in video conferencing was that when we convert analog to digital for transmission then it is the loss in clarity of image. The most important factor in video conferencing is the compression ratio. The higher the compression ratio, the more quickly the information is capable of being transmitted. In many cases, however, this also means some loss in clarity or audio/video quality.

Advantages of video conferencing: Using video conferencing you can communicate with whole groups of people at once either through networking a group of computers or by form of broadcast. This is a huge step forward for both companies and for schools. video conferencing is very useful for students in their studies. Students can enjoy learning this way much more than from a textbook. Informed people can talk to classes and help them learn, where otherwise they wouldn't be able to because of time and distance restrictions. This is also a bonus for children who have different learning styles. The more visual types who understand better when they can see what they're working with.

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一元钱那去了？之答案

一元钱那去了？之答案

答案：27+3=30
27+2，没有任何意义，这两个数字根本不能相加。道理很简单，27是什么，是25元的实际房费和服务生藏起的2元的总和。里面已经包含2了，再加2就说不通了。呵呵，就是这么简单！

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一元钱那去了？

一元钱那去了？
有3个人去投宿,一晚30元.三个人每人掏了10元凑够30元交给了老板. 后来老板说今天优惠只要25元就够了,拿出5元命令服务生退还给他们, 服务生偷偷藏起了2元, 然后,把剩下的3元钱分给了那三个人,每人分到1元.这样,一开始每人掏了10元,现在又退回1元,也就是10-1=9,每人只花了9元钱, 3个人每人9元,3 X 9 = 27 元 + 服务生藏起的2元=29元，还有一元钱去了哪里？？？此题在新西兰面试的时候曾引起巨大反响.
本人的下一篇博文会给出答案！

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The History of Video Conferencing

The recent terrorist attacks here in the US have caused many companies and individuals to rethink how they want to market to and work with others. As a result, web-enabled presentations and or collaborations are finally coming of age - the technology works with a minimum of hassle, it's an efficient way to give marketing presentations, hold meetings, provide training and do product demonstrations. The cost savings can be significant, especially when contrasted with all of the burdened costs of holding conventional meetings; i.e. travel, hotel, transportation, facilities and "time out of the office issues." Here is a quick primer on some baseline issues to consider when weighing the effectiveness of virtual marketing presentations and meetings.

1. There are a broad number of vendors, although the "virtual presentation and meeting" market segment has undergone consolidation in the last few years. I'd recommend assessing these four market leaders: www.webex.com (well established with diversified terms of services), www.placeware.com (corporate focused), www.centra.com (provides a good client plug in that enables Voice over IP ("voip") communications, www.raindance.com (emphasizes teleconferencing).

2. PC configuration, Internet access and firewall issues all need to be considered when your assessing the effectiveness of this process and technology. Port settings need to be "tuned" or optimized, the PC must have multimedia capabilities if your using voip, just about any speed of internet connection will work, but the experience for the attendee can vary depending on the connection speeds and how "heavy" your presentation is with graphics.

3. Web presentations offer a lower cost model versus traditional presentations or meetings, but there are burdened costs for web-enabled marketing - phone conferencing can be anywhere from $.15-35 per minute per user, presentation uploads for a standard power point presentation (which is the defacto app for virtual presentations), can cost $10-30. per presentation, costs per attendee can vary tremendously but average $50-500. per session, depending upon the number of users.

4. One of the most expensive parts of virtual meetings is always the teleconferencing component. All of the market leaders have some VOIP component (voice over IP) but most are not publicizing this technology or service, as they don't want to cannibalize a significant contribution to their revenue streams. One exception is Centra - they are offering voip integrated services with their standard web presentations or meetings. The audio quality is good, analogous to voice quality of a standard Cell Phone call - but there is a client download (small under 250K) to deal with and you must have a multi-media enabled PC.

5. Some web-enabled presentation challenges include the need to keep people involved - you can do this easily by leveraging the chat capabilities, dynamic polling, and standard Q&A components built into the application. The higher their interest level (as in real world meetings) the better your meeting or presentation will be.

6. Marketing presentations can be easily archived and made available to others on a 24/7 basis - this archiving can include the standard presentation, enhanced with video or audio components, depending on the sophistication of your presentation. Be prepared to pay an extra charge for this - but the marketing ROI can be significant, especially when you factor in how little most companies charge for an archiving service versus your front end costs.

7. Virtual marketing enables a whole set of web-enabled processes - you will have the ability to easily capture your prospect/customer's e-mail address and standard contact points via a registration process, involve them and capture preferences via polling in your presentations and "push" follow up communications during your presentation/meeting or later. But, it's very important to include standard "privacy" statements in your materials and adhere to them as you move forward through your Business processes.

8. How does video conferencing impact your assessments of web-enabled presentations or collaborations? This depends on your budget, number of people attending the presentation, presenter and attendee locations and other intangible that are specific to your Business. In general, video conferencing works better for very small (under five people) presentations or meetings, due to some of the inherent challenges of this medium.

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克林顿绯闻

克林顿绯闻
一日，希拉莉在白宫的一块雪地上发现几个用尿写的字，"希拉莉是个丑八怪"。希拉莉大为震惊，立刻叫来她的私人秘书，限令他在三天内查出是谁干的。三天之后，私人秘书来见希拉莉，"夫人，我给您带来了一个好消息，一个坏消息，以及一个非常坏的消息"。希拉莉想了一下说："先告诉我好消息吧"。"好消息是我已经查出来是谁干的了"，秘书说。希拉莉急忙问："是谁？"秘书说："这就是我要告诉你的坏消息。通过专家的化验，那是克林顿总统的尿样。"希拉莉非常生气，不过想到还有一个非常坏的消息没听，就强压住怒火，问到："快告诉我那个非常坏的消息"。"通过对笔迹的分析，是莫尼卡-莱温斯基写的"

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死！我也要死在床上！

死！我也要死在床上！
老公出了趟差，一身疲惫地回到家中。不知什么原因，老婆今天对床上运动表现出极大的爱好，主动提出做爱的要求。老公说：今天不行了，我实在太累了，明天吧。说完从床上起身去洗澡．老公洗完热水澡，精神有些恢复（"激爽"的效果果然不错噢），看到床上风情万种的老婆，顿时来了兴致。运动的间歇，老婆问：你不是累了吗？老公（一脸庄重）：死！我也要死在床上！唯一坚持的体育运动在床上，老公揉搓着老婆柔软的乳房，忽然心生感慨："他妈的，结婚以后只有这项体育运动坚持下来了！"

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标语牌

标语牌
母女二人去游泳池游泳，女儿跳水时，游泳衣不慎破裂。母亲赶快拿起泳池边儿的标语牌给女儿遮挡，人们看了标语牌后禁不住大笑。标语牌上写道：危险，深2米，熟练者使用。母亲赶快把标语牌调了个儿，这回，人们更是大笑不止，背面是：男性专用，进前请脱衣。尴尬的母亲又拿了另一块标语牌一看，上写：大人30元，儿童10元，20名以上半价。于是马上又换了一块儿，看后差一点没晕过去，标语牌写的是：营业时间早9时－晚10时。看着笑得快背过气的人们，母亲唯一的希望寄托在最后一块儿标语牌了，可是当她看到标语牌后，她真的晕过去了，标语牌的内容是：此处是共用区域，为了他人的身体健康，请保持清洁。

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女生的笑话

女生的笑话
她本人长得很漂亮，而且身材也比较丰满，看起来蛮成熟的，有一次去网吧上网，被旁边的一个男的看上了，那男的偷看了她的QQ号，然后还加了她。其实她已经知道是旁边的男生加的她，那男的跟她聊了会，又要视屏，视屏了一会，问她多大了，MM说32，男生说，不是吧，是23还差不多，MM咬定是32，那男的又问，那你孩子呢，MM说孩子去上学了，那男的不信，这时好戏就上演了。MM掏出手机给另一个男同学打电话，让他过来，并且说"一会你来了，就这样这样......过了10分钟，只见一个20多的大男生，背着书包，胡子还没刮，一进网吧就冲到MM面前说："妈妈，我放学回来啦~！"旁边的那男的当时就傻了……。

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想跟我上床吗？

想跟我上床吗？
话说某位女士一时兴起，买了一只母鹦鹉。没想到带回家里，它说的第一句话就是："想跟我上床吗？"女士一听，心想：坏了，外人还以为这话是我教的呢，这不把我的淑女形象全给毁了。于是她想尽办法，想交那只鹦鹉说些高雅的东西，可是那只母鹦鹉算是铁了心，只会说一句话："想跟我上床吗？"……怎么办呢？
在那位女士失去主张的时候，听说神父那里也养了一只鹦鹉（公的），而且那只鹦鹉，不但不讲粗话，反而是个虔诚的教徒，每天大部分时间里都在祷告。于是那位女士去找神父求助。神父明白她的来意之后，面色微难的说："这个，很难办呀，其实那只鹦鹉，我也并没有刻意的教它什么，它之所以这么虔诚，也可能是长期在此受熏陶的缘故吧。"神父见女士很失落，便说道："这样吧，你把那只鹦鹉带到我这里来，我把它们放在一起。希望经过一段时间，你那只鹦鹉能够被感化。我只能做这些了，有没有效果，就看神的旨意了……"女士一听，也只能这样了，不是有句话叫：近朱者赤吗？试试吧。
于是她把鹦鹉带到神父那里。神父依照诺言把两只鹦鹉放在了一起。开始母鹦鹉还有些拘谨，看那只公鹦鹉在笼子的一角，默默的祷告，还真不忍心打扰。可是她还是管不住自己，终于朗声说道："想跟我上床吗？"公鹦鹉听到这话，停止了祷告，转身看了看母鹦鹉，忽然泪如雨下："感谢上帝，我祷告这么多年的愿望终于实现了……"

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很生活的笑话

很生活的笑话
1.水多的还是奶大的？今天去沃尔马，同去的女生要买冰淇淋，于是征求我意见问道："你是喜欢水多的还是奶大的？"（你让我怎么答？）2.甲：我有两个坏习惯，令我感到很困扰。第一个坏习惯是裸睡。乙：这也没什么呀！第二个坏习惯呢？甲：梦游3.我要进到你里面去……一男生进教室，环顾四周后找到了目标座位，然后他对坐在外边的一ppmm不好意思地说："同学，我要进到你里面去……"ppmm的脸一下子就红了！4.摇一摇晚上mm做饭的时候，本人为了表示感激撒娇的上去抱住晃晃她，她转过头一脸不屑："喝前摇一摇啊？！"5.面试四名女考官给我面试：你认为你适合什么样的工作？答：我觉得我比较适合大运动量的工作……6.联想的品牌以前的标志：leg'end——大腿根部；现在的标志：lenovo——来弄我~

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