Writing Topic 7 (Margot): Minimum Requirements to Enable Realistic Teleconferencing and Videoconferencing
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
QW 7 Minimum requirements to enable realistic teleconferencing and videoconferencing
Videoconferencing and teleconferencing are very useful tools in businesses and for people individually. For businesses videoconferencing and teleconferencing can be used for business meetings with international companies and for meetings between the different establishments of a company. These types of communication allow multiple people to talk simultaneously which is useful for a business to discus certain topics with many people at once.
Some of the advantages of using teleconferencing and videoconferencing in a business are: • Host and attend live meetings • Manage a remote workforce • Real-time collaboration with presentation, application, and desktop sharing
For people individually videoconferencing is used more often since it allows people to see each other while talking. Videoconferencing keeps on increasing in its use since it is both useful in the business world and in the personal life of people. This has led to the development of many softwares for videoconferencing. Some examples are Skype, iVisit and WiredRed.
The minimum technological requirements for teleconferencing are: • A speaker phone/microphone: e.g. Polycom SoundStation • An Internet connection • A computer • Someone on the other side of the conversation with both speaker phone and Internet connection
For videoconferencing these requirements are somewhat the same, but there is one more technological device needed: A webcam. Since videoconferencing only defers from teleconferencing in the way that people can actually see each other while speaking, the webcam is crucial for videoconferencing.
However, the use of teleconferencing and videoconferencing should be taken in a suitable perspective. For teleconferencing especially and for videoconferencing when used for multiple people, the use of these types of communications is most effective in a group or a department of a company. For individual meetings, people should not use teleconferencing. As the message that one person is sending will not be too complicated, he/she will be better off with using email or the telephone. For a group discussion however, videoconferencing and teleconferencing can offer many advantages. Since they are more people involved in the conversation, more opinions and explanations are given, increasing the effectiveness of the communication.
A good example to illustrate this last paragraph is the use of videoconferencing and teleconferencing within the Delegation of the European Commission Tokyo. Since this delegation works closely together with its headquarters in Brussels, there is a lot of communication between these two. Email and telephone are two forms of communication through technology commonly used by the delegation. It is only for big meetings for groups that they will use videoconferencing or teleconferencing. Normally, they would not use videoconferencing or teleconferencing for one-on-one meetings.
Realistic teleconferencing and videoconferencing do not require too much technological devices, which makes it easier to deploy these types of communication. For businesses it is easy to implement these types of communication since most of the technological devices required are already present in the company. They might have to get speaker phones or microphones and for videoconferencing webcams, but that is the only thing they would need to acquire to enable their company to have videoconferences or teleconferences.
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
QW 7 Minimum requirements to enable realistic teleconferencing and videoconferencing
Videoconferencing and teleconferencing are very useful tools in businesses and for people individually. For businesses videoconferencing and teleconferencing can be used for business meetings with international companies and for meetings between the different establishments of a company. These types of communication allow multiple people to talk simultaneously which is useful for a business to discus certain topics with many people at once.
Some of the advantages of using teleconferencing and videoconferencing in a business are:
• Host and attend live meetings
• Manage a remote workforce
• Real-time collaboration with presentation, application, and desktop sharing
For people individually videoconferencing is used more often since it allows people to see each other while talking. Videoconferencing keeps on increasing in its use since it is both useful in the business world and in the personal life of people. This has led to the development of many softwares for videoconferencing. Some examples are Skype, iVisit and WiredRed.
The minimum technological requirements for teleconferencing are:
• A speaker phone/microphone: e.g. Polycom SoundStation
• An Internet connection
• A computer
• Someone on the other side of the conversation with both speaker phone and Internet connection
For videoconferencing these requirements are somewhat the same, but there is one more technological device needed: A webcam. Since videoconferencing only defers from teleconferencing in the way that people can actually see each other while speaking, the webcam is crucial for videoconferencing.
However, the use of teleconferencing and videoconferencing should be taken in a suitable perspective. For teleconferencing especially and for videoconferencing when used for multiple people, the use of these types of communications is most effective in a group or a department of a company. For individual meetings, people should not use teleconferencing. As the message that one person is sending will not be too complicated, he/she will be better off with using email or the telephone. For a group discussion however, videoconferencing and teleconferencing can offer many advantages. Since they are more people involved in the conversation, more opinions and explanations are given, increasing the effectiveness of the communication.
A good example to illustrate this last paragraph is the use of videoconferencing and teleconferencing within the Delegation of the European Commission Tokyo. Since this delegation works closely together with its headquarters in Brussels, there is a lot of communication between these two. Email and telephone are two forms of communication through technology commonly used by the delegation. It is only for big meetings for groups that they will use videoconferencing or teleconferencing. Normally, they would not use videoconferencing or teleconferencing for one-on-one meetings.
Realistic teleconferencing and videoconferencing do not require too much technological devices, which makes it easier to deploy these types of communication. For businesses it is easy to implement these types of communication since most of the technological devices required are already present in the company. They might have to get speaker phones or microphones and for videoconferencing webcams, but that is the only thing they would need to acquire to enable their company to have videoconferences or teleconferences.
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