Having contingency plans and changing communication habits away from the dependents on physical travel is a must in the new economy.

With Meeting.ie, there are easy and cost effective ways to keep in touch with business partners anywhere, anytime! Meetings and decisions can be made without the aid of travel! Training and important communication can be delivered meaningfully and easily to anywhere in the world, even face-to-face without physically being there.

With Video Conferencing it is possible for businesses to attend meetings in different countries! Video Conferencing is not only easy to do; it also saves a lot of time and money spent on travelling.  Video Conferencing not only lets you have meetings without leaving your office, it saves you a lot of effort and expense and is good for the environment. It gives more time back to executives and employees, allowing them to conduct vital business meetings without the cost and time implications of global travel. Video Conferencing is as good as sitting directly in front of a colleague, customer, or supplier and lets you have face-to-face interaction remotely with anybody.

Another way and the most accessible option of keeping in touch with your business partners abroad is having a Conference Call. All you need for a conference call is a phone, regardless of where you and your participants are in the world. Meetings and decisions can be made using call conferencing with anyone anywhere in the world. The latest natural disaster in Iceland has shown how travel can be affected and slowed down so easy. Unpredictable weather, natural disasters, regional crisis and travel delays around the world can also affect getting to your meetings and continuing with your business.

Counteract these unpredictable business interruptions now and be ready when they hit the next time. Give Video Conferencing, Call Conferencing or Web Conferencing a chance and see how it works for you and your business! All our solutions can be trialed for two weeks for free.

So Take Action Today And Don’t Let You Business Be Interrupted By The Next “Volcano”!

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE LIVE SESSION ON THE 24TH 13:30pm GMT

This is the “Nuts and Bolts of Webcasting and Video Messaging” web event and we will talk about the following:

• Recording video messages
• Live meetings and web events
• How to conduct live webinars
• Setup, greeting, playlists
• Starting and stopping to record
• Scheduling live meetings
• Invitations
• Presenter and participants screen
• Understanding webcasting screens
• Push video and slides
• Q & A

If you want to attend this event or have a questions please comment above in “Comments” or send us an email to webcast’at’meeting.ie

• Check Your Tech: Meeting online becomes second nature after a few meetings. If you’re adding new participants, you want to make sure they are comfortable with your conferencing software, the web cam and the audio before their first meeting. The most important part of your meeting besides the visual aspect of it is the audio!
• Plan Your Agenda: When your meeting rolls around, you want to make sure the meeting goes smoothly. In order to do this, you will need to sit down and plan your meeting. What is the purpose of the meeting and what message are you trying to send or what problem are you trying to solve? An agenda can help keep everyone focused and on track.
• Prepare Your Materials: Once you have an agenda for the video meeting, you should prepare the materials for the meeting. For instance, if you need statistics, visual aids, or demos then you need to gather these materials in advance. If your meeting will require each viewer to have a handout or form of any sort, you want to make sure that you get these documents made up and sent to each person attending the video meeting.

Ultimately, planning your meeting, having a schedule and checking your technology will help you to have a smooth, successful meeting and is well worth the planning time you’ll invest.

Often business owners and employees fail to consider the environmental impact of business travel. Every so often a corporation will make a push for carpooling or some other minor measure for a business meeting, but this is more a cost control issue than an environmental one for the company. It seems as if the environment is usually the last thing on most corporate minds, and who can blame them? The environment doesn’t have a ready impact on the bottom line, which is where most businesses focus all of their attention. This is as it should be, since the business likely wasn’t created for the environment, but rather has to exist in it.

So how can a business use business meetings and conferences that can have an impact on the bottom line and the environment? First, the business must recognize the cost of sending attendees to an offsite meeting. Travel by plane, train or automobile has a definite impact on the environment and the bottom line. Five workers attending a meeting in five separate automobiles means five expense sheets with tolls, gas, and mileage that the company must reimburse, not to mention the pollution, the time wasted in commuting that the company isn’t being compensated for and eating out, creating additional waste, and much more. Traveling for business was necessary as the economy evolved and companies wanted to grow.

However there is a ready solution in today’s technology that not only can have a positive impact on the environment; it can have a direct effect on the company’s bottom line. You can host online business meetings using technology that keeps employees on site, minimizes travel time and reimbursement and essentially saves the world. Online meeting solutions involve teleconferencing and video conferencing which can be set up quickly and can add real savings to the corporation’s bottom line – not to mention the PR coup a company can trot out with their pledge to help improve the environment by switching over to online meetings.

Online meetings save time, save effort and helps save the environment while improving your bottom line. The new year is a great opportunity to pledge to reduce your company’s business travel in 2010!

Call us on 021 4928954 or join me online every Friday @ 12pm.

In the old days video conferencing was a set of boxes sitting in a boardroom, complex to use, cost a lot of money and delivered questionable results. Today’s THIS IS HISTORY and high quality visual meetings and video, audio conferencing is now available and affordable for any business. Organizations have decided that cutting down business travel whether by car, air or other forms of transport is a critical component in their mission to join the fight against time waste, expenses and climate change. Video conferencing is the primary tool they have adopted to conserve valuable time, cut down on cost and reduce pollution. Our customers proof every day that it helps to save time, expenses and that they benefits from not to travelling business meetings. 

Below you find an example of one of our video conferencing solutions. The version 5 that we sell now is even higher quality and very easy to use. If you want to know more about this please call us or join one of our online demo that run every Friday from 12pm – 12:30pm GMT. To join, click here!