Web Conferencing adds visuals to your audio conference event

The Internet is playing an increasing role in effective meetings. Two complementary technologies have emerged and become popular: Web Conferencing and Webcasting. Both use the Internet to deliver visuals to your audience on their personal computer. Web Conferencing lends itself to small to medium sized meetings with plenty of interaction between the participants. Webcasting is ideal for reaching medium to large audiences where low cost per participant is key.

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Webcasting reaches a wide audience economically

While other blogs dash off a 3-4 sentence throwaways, Glenn Fleishmann writes thoughtful, article-length pieces. A good way to keep up with the constantly whirling world of Wi-Fi. If you’re new to Web conferencing but you want a lively presentation this might be your choice. While less sophisticated than several other alternatives it is very simple to use and is recognized automatically by most Internet browsers. There are many free video Web conferencing solution products that can help with this. Using a shareware program, for example, all a firm has to do to add animation to its Web conference is to provide each individual bitmap image that will be part of the animation. The file is then posted and the image tag code just the same as you would if you were using a standard static GIF. The disadvantage with this process, however, is that it will be very rudimentary.

From what Bell’s clients tell him, buyers of IT services are already looking to India not just for cost savings but for tech skills.“The initial wave [of Indian outsourcing], maybe five years ago, was all about ‘Gosh I can save a lot of money,’” he says. But now, clients "can’t grow the function the way they would like to in the U.S. and Europe, and they’re looking at places like India and China and the Philippines to add capacity that they simply can’t add here.” For example, Bell consulted with a large computer hardware manufacturer last year. “In their R and D function they cannot get enough R and D PhD engineers in their major locations in North America,” he says. “They’re not planning on scaling back any of those locations, but all the extra capacity they’re putting in is in India and China and Malaysia and couple of other places.”

“The sophisticated stuff that a U.S. programmer might want to compete for, I think the Indian wages will raise particularly fast, because the people who are good at that stuff in India will be globally tradable. And they could get the $150,000 salary doing it here in America, too. All they need is an H1.” As a result, the competition for this sophisticated work will be more about skill level than wages. The U.S. vs. India competition will be closer to a level playing field in terms of cost. At that point, the pressure will truly be on domestic tech service firms to prove their worth. Amid gloomy prognostications for U.S. IT providers, at least two factors suggest better fortunes. One is that the rise of offshore IT companies isn’t necessarily a detriment for American tech concerns.