A Teleconference in Real life

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With every passing year, corporations are growing
in size and spreading out more and more. Since
employees of a certain company can be miles
apart, getting everyone together in the same
room for important meetings is not always
possible. This is why teleconferencing has become
so popular today. Through teleconferencing,
companies can organize meetings, demonstrations,
workshops, and customer briefs online or by
using a phone, without the need of the person
being physically present there. What Is A
Teleconference in Real Life? A teleconference is
basically a meeting of a few people who are not
present in the same place, with the help of
electronic communication. The participants of the
meeting may be in different parts of the country
or even in the same city. The conference can be a
one- way session, which various people just need
to attend, or may be an interactive session. At
times, only three to five people can be involved,
sometimes 30 to 35, and maybe even hundreds.
Teleconferencing is a perfect way to bring
together people separated by distance, for
business, without them actually having to
travel. There are three types of teleconference
voice only (conference calls), voice and video
(video conference), and web-based conference. A
conference call just involves two or more
participants, and usually requires only a
telephone, though a speaker phone can be used if
more than two people are present in the site. In
a video conferencing, two or more groups of
people present in different locations get to
interact with each other through a video call, or
they may simply view a presentation and later
give their responses. For this kind of
teleconferencing, a live TV with video cameras
and microphones attached is needed.
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• A computer-based conference is quite like a video
  conference wherein large groups of
• people get to interact with each other, and can
  have a visual and audio contact. In this case,
  for video transmission, high-speed internet
  connection, computer screens, and a good cloud
  video conferencing software like ezTalks Cloud
  Meeting is used.
• How to Teleconference in Real Life
• Let us now go through a step-by-step process to
  organize a perfect teleconference.
• Decide the Time and Date
• The first and the most important thing you need
  to do is to decide the date and time for the
  conference, let the participants know about it,
  and also let them know about the roles they will
  have to play. Do not forget to send them a
  reminder a day before the meeting.
• Decide the Equipment You Will Use
• Using the right equipment is very important if
  you want to run a successful conference in real
  life, as the success or failure of the conference
  depends on the same. As already mentioned, if
  you plan to organize a simple telephonic
  conference then you will just need a phone,
  perhaps with speakers. For a video conference you
  will need a live TV with microphones and video
  cameras attached, and for a web-based conference,
  you need a good internet connection, computer
  screens, and good video conference software.

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• Plan the Agenda
• Preferably a day before the teleconference,
  forward a meeting agenda to every participant.
  You must clearly mention in the agenda the role
  of the different participants. This will helps
  everyone be prepared for the conference in the
  right way. This also will help the meeting to be
  crisp and precise, instead of long, boring ones.
  Time is money, and that surely is something you
  would not want to waste by not being prepared.
• Do Not Let Things Wander
• It is easy for a teleconference to wander off
  because it is a get together of many people who
  may not have even spoken to each other much. So,
  the leader of the conference must make sure the
  agenda is followed, and if some points come up
  that are not related to the agenda, they can be
  saved for a future conference.
• This is how you can organize a teleconference in
  real life. However, even once the conference
  ends you have an important task to do, and that
  is to send meeting notes or a recap of the
  conference to the participants. This will help
  them recall whatever has happened in the meeting
  and thus they will remember the task they have to
  perform as discussed in the conference.
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