For those who are just starting entering the world of virtual conferences - though I am sure that most of us who have Internet access have dabbed in it one way or another: ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Skype, etc. – I’ll remind that a video conference call for a camera to transfer the image of oneself and make online communication a two-lane ride. A camera, a monitor, Internet, of course, mic and speakers.

The beauty of video-conferencing is that one can hand over important information over long distances, saving on all sorts of vital things: time, money, security and a bunch of others. One can make this information to be heard, seen and explained to a large number of people.

For example, now when New Orleans is in a stew for a mayor’s race, how is it possible to get the evacuees to cast their votes? Yes, video-conferencing is very helpful here, irreplaceable. According to the Capitol News Bureau, the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center presents a voter education program for the displaced persons. They will go into a video conference to know how they can participate in the forthcoming elections.

As well, voters will be able to address their concerns to the elected officials. Those who would like to partake in free conference, but whose location is a far-reaching one, are urged to visit http://www.suagcenter.com for locations worldwide.

Another recent example, where video-conference proved to be indispensable and a craved-for luxury, is a communication between the newly wed with the husband being an army medic who is now in Iraq. The story that I have come across in Decatur Times says that they haven’t seen each other since December.

Calls, a video-conferencing provider that helps diagnosing and treating patients in far-reaching areas, brought them together. The young family was happy to get reunited, as it felt, in real-time mode at least for some time.

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Hello, everyone! This is a blog on the three whales of real-time communication: audio, video and web. Recently video, web and audio conferencing service have been developing rather rapidly. And web-conferencing of today has gone a way forward and is quite different to what it used to be when first appeared. It moved from being a forum or a message board to a complex phenomenon of live communication via Internet.

At present time, video and web-conferences are two definitions that are often interchangeable, as the time introduces its own amendments and technological advances. What is needed to start a web-conference? As I have already described it in the articles on the topics in question, one will need a PC, a broadband connection (the faster the connection, the better the quality of online communication), a camera, speakers and a microphone.

The minimum set requires a computer, connection and speakers. This is enough if you are into distance learning and in a lecturer, a kind of a silent receptor. Yes, lectures, seminars, all sorts of staff trainings and therapy sessions, interactive web browsing, business meetings and webinars are possible now with various numbers of participants involved and types of data exchanged.

So an online web conference gathers a number of people sitting in front of their PCs in different locations, probably in different countries, which are connected with each other, in a conference call. They can chat online, share images, they can see and hear each other and even make presentations using PowerPoint. They can exchange files and various documents. Usually, web conference software allows recording the conference in order to play it back again, which is a great advantage in case some participants failed to show up.

Though, web conference solutions promise real-time communication, in reality the image and sound transferred is a couple of seconds behind the actual ones. But still it’s a nice way for people at the opposite parts of the world to negotiate and talk real.

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