Google Voice – Conference calling
Conference call is a way of communicating between various parties through audio, video and web. There are three types of conference calling; audio, video and even web conferencing. Call conferencing is very handy for organisations whose branches are scattered in various parts of the World for keeping in contact or have meetings in regular basis.
There are also pros and cons of having conference calls and they are listed below.
The advantages of call conferencing is that it is cost effective as you will be able to invite more than one attendee in the conference other than calling each attendee individiually through a phone call. Another big advantage of call conferencing is via video conferencing, which allows attendees to view the caller or vice versa, as it is always good to put a face to the voice.
However even after these advantages there are still some disadvantages by choosing call conferencing; for example if you choose to do a audio conferencing then some of the remarks which are meant as a joke can be taken in a wrong way by some people as they will not be able to see the facial expression of the caller. Another disadvantage can be the quality of the call, more people you add to the conference the quality becomes lower and lower. The advantages of audio and web conferencing is the cost, these services are cheaper than 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.