Thursday, April 23, 2009

Hosted Wed Conferencing

When we are talking about web conferencing, hosted web conferencing generally comes to our mind. Well, since the technology of web conferencing emerged on the market and on demand, hosted web conferencing has been the preferred trend of most businesses. Now the question arises what is hosted web conferencing? And what makes it most preferred trend of businesses?
Hosted web conferencing is an online meeting between groups of individuals with the help of internet without leaving his actual place. Actually in this type of conferencing, internet provides the individual with a virtual meeting room. We can say hosted web conferencing is a Conferencing over the Internet through a server hosted by your vendor.

In its simplest form it is a conferencing in host place with a group of individuals sitting at different places or locations.

Advantages of hosted web conferencing

? The majority of Web conferencing solutions are hosted services
A hosted Web conferencing service exists on an Internet-based server.

? The biggest advantage of a hosted service is that it’s extremely easy to set up and use and it can be implemented immediately.

? There’s no capital expenditure and no need to get the IT department involved. For small-scale or infrequent Web conferences, a hosted service is an ideal solution

? Whiteboard is another remarkable feature which is newly added in the hosted web conferencing. This allows you to make ideas down on a virtual whiteboard. You can underline, bold, or encircle key concepts on a certain slide for highlighting.

? The important feature of hosted web conferencing is application sharing or file sharing..

Some other features of hosted web conferencing:

• File sharing
• Application sharing
• Polls and survey
• Text messaging
• Slide presentation

Some companies are providing free web conferencing services .It may include free video conference. Free web conference rooms are available in internet. And these free conference room enables the businesses to communicate widely and it also cut of the cost of management and communication.