Google Voice – Conference calling
Conference call is a way of communicating between various parties through audio, video and web. Normally there are 3 types of conference calling; web, video and audio conferencing. This service is very helpful for companies who have offices on various part of the World to communication regularly.
There are advantages and disadvantages of having conference calls which are listed below.
The most basic advantage is that it is cost effective than phone calls, as you can invite more than one parties to attend the conference, whereas you will have to ring all the conference individually if it was through a phone call. The feature of video conferencing of being able to view the caller is another big advantage of call conferencing as it is always good to put a face to the voice.
However there are still some negative points to go through if you choose call conferencingsuch as while choosing to do a audio conferencing some of the jokes or remarks can be misunderstood into something else by individuals as they are not able to see the facial expression of the conference caller. Another major disadvantage of audio conferencing is that the quality of the call lowers when more people are added to the conference call. One of the benefit of web and audio conferencing is the cost, these services are cheaper than use of video conferencing. Web conferencing services might be cheaper than the audio and video but it also has its downside which is time taken for communication by typing. Text based communcation in the past has caused a lot of misunderstand between different conferencing members.
Conference calling is one of the best ways of communication within the organisations but it also has its ups and downs.
