counterrevolutionary indoctrination: Advanced Telephone Conferencing - Atkinsbillie936's blog

How we communicate continues to evolve so as to adapt to today?s changing communications requirements. One of the recent innovations is conducting meeting over the telephone. Many telecommuters, free lancers, remote sales offices, company vendors are turning to advanced telephone conferencing as their communication vehicles. It is not just an ordinary telephone conferencing as it comes with more features such as:

Conference management

??? ?Sub-conferencing ? enables chosen participants to communicate privately within the call. Sub-conference attendees can afterwards get back to the main conference. Usually, many sub-conferences can be done within any one call.

??? ?Call monitoring ? it guarantees that operator is always available throughout the conference. It enables participants to join in the midst of the discussion, or for other features to be accessed.

??? ?Roll call ? allows the moderator and the rest of the participants of the conferences know who is joining the conference. An operator conducts roll call, asking each participant for his or her name.

??? ?Faxing ? this enables the head to give out relevant materials for the meeting. A set of relevant documents are faxed to each participant according to the signal of the moderator.

Aside from these, advanced telephone conferencing services also include translation services, call recording and call transcription. But usually these additional features have charges per service.

This type of business conferencing service can support 1-3,000 participants, but there should be an additional feature for orderly discussion. For large conferences having limited speakers to deliver the subject matter, the following features are used:

??? ?Polling - enables participants to vote on specific issues. This is done through pushing a touch-tone button, participants can agree to or reject proposals in the conference. The operator will then tally the votes in real time. The summary of the result can be printed out if necessary.

??? ?Broadcasting ? the action only allows selected participants to speak to all the participants while the others are muted. This prevents conferences to be disturbed by inevitable background voices from the majority of the participants.

??? ?Question and answer - makes an organized exchange of information through allowing participant to signal via phone when they want to ask something. The operator then calls on particular participant for their input.

Many people are now adopting advanced telephone conferencing services because of its high quality. You can choose between reservationless conferencing and operator-assisted phone conferencing. The former are typically for impromptu meetings while the latter caters more formal meetings.

Advanced Telephone Conferencing