Understanding Conferencing Today

The internet has changed the way we do business today. You can not create live interactive meetings with anyone in the world at anytime of the day or night using internet conferencing. All anyone in your meeting needs is a telephone and web browser.

During your internet conferencing you will be able to share company information over the internet using such programs as:

* PowerPoint Presentations
* Live demos
* Application Sharing
* Website Tours
* Polling
* Others in the meeting will listen in to the audio portion of the meeting via telephone.

Benefits included in internet conferencing are:

* More efficient (Everyone can get to this meeting)
* No limit on geographic locations
* Have as many people at the meeting that is necessary
* Inexpensive

With internet conferencing it will be similar to an auditorium setting. The person that is in control of the meeting can set many different options for others in the meeting like: chat, ability to ask questions, or answer questions, color controls for seating.

You will be able to have a step by step guide for each member of the meeting so they receive the most out of the internet conferencing.

Features of most internet conferencing for audio conferences:
Audio Quality Features

By pressing the following buttons on your telephone keypads, the people holding the meeting and other people that are enjoying the meeting can adjust the sound quality to enhance their conference:

* Press *6 to mute or "un-mute" your line
* Press *4 to increase the conference volume.
* Press *7 to decrease the conference volume.
* Press *5 to increase the volume of your voice.
* Press *8 to decrease the volume of your voice.
* Press *1 to hear a Help menu.
* Press *0 at any time while in conference to connect to an operator for assistance.

Moderator Features
To further increase your control and security during your conference, you can use the following moderator options:

* Press *9 to access the menu of moderator preferences:
* Press*92 to hear a roll call.
* Press *93 to terminate all participant lines.
* Press *94 to lock your conference, preventing other participants from joining.
* Press *94 again to "unlock" your conference.
* Press *95 to include another participant.
* Press *96 to mute all participant lines.
* Press *97 to unmute all participant lines.

Options for International Participants in internet conferencing:

1. Participants in US, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Singapore can all use the toll-free call.

2. The person holding the meeting can provide a listing of names of international participants along with their telephone numbers to the Operator who will then call the participants at the time of the conference. Rates vary according to country.

3. The person holding the meeting can provide a listing of participating countries and the Operator can arrange for toll-free local numbers for the participants in those countries to call into.

There are some costs involved with internet conferencing:
The Standard Costs are:

* Option Cost
* Conference Call feature of your phone No additional charges
* Non-Operator Assisted Premiere Conference Call Toll Free: .15c per min
* Toll Number: .15c per min
* Operator Assisted Premiere Conference Call Toll Free: .30c per min
* Toll Number: .22c per min

There are added benefits of using Operator Assisted Calls they include:
Operator will mute audience members, field questions, take attendance, announce speaker, etc.

Using internet conferencing will help your business grow. Productivity will be enhanced because of one on one personal meeting at any time. Everyone in your meeting will be more relaxed and comfortable because they will be in their own office or home.