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Participatory Education and Conference Calls
What You Need To Know About Participatory Education and Conference Calls Let’s start with the basics. The reason why participatory education was created was to give the people a way to better their own lives through education. Participatory education is where students get as equal a say in the shaping of class curriculum and activities […]
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Free Web Meetings: A Superior Species
In the Olden Days, people used to hate going to meetings because physical travel felt like lost time; it took two hours out of your day that you couldn't get back. Sometimes we didn't even need to be there. Other people did all the talking, made the decisions, and we just sat there thinking about […]
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How to get paid to sit on a beach and write
In 2015, Lahaina Grill was voted "Best Maui Restaurant" for the 22nd consecutive year. You could get paid to sit in the grill, or on the beach out front, knocking out paragraphs for a living. It's tough work, but somebody's gotta do it. One thing though: you'll need to know how to run a virtual […]
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Let Web Conferencing Do The Heavy Lifting
By the time you graduate from university or college, you will have heard the lecture on "Time management" a thousand times. If you are like many students, you will have tuned it out and filed it in the back of your mind under "Later." Most students only tend to get excited about time management when […]
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How to be a good conference caller
Conference calls are an effective communication tool for building team spirit and good "corporate culture." Although the organization benefits from well made conference calls through increased productivity and profitability, the employees benefit too, because it is way more fun to work in a happy, engaged workplace. That is, if everyone pulls together, and knows how […]
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Conference Calls Weren't Always So Easy
Teleconferencing (conference call) is becoming a core communication technology for everyone, from businesses to non-profit organizations to families. It has revolutionized communication in much the same way as the cellphones completely revolutionized personal communication, and for the same reason. Simplicity. But free conference calls weren't always so easy.
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The Guide to Holding Effective Business Conference Calls
The Guide to Holding Effective Business Conference Call Business conference calls are essential to keep everyone in your company connected and informed, but because are usually quick to forget the fact that conference calls need to be productive too. Fun fact: did you know that no one is actually paying attention on your conference calls? […]
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Why Teleconference is better than "Telepresence"
What is a "Telepresence"? The word "telepresence" conjures up images of the movie Avatar. It is supposed to imply that you actually have a "presence" in the room. Telepresence is a glossy marketing term that really means: "unnecessarily expensive teleconference". A standard video conference call will give you exactly the same "presence" in a room. […]
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3 reasons environmental organizations use conference calls
Like many other forms of social justice, environmental activism is changing. Organizations are sharing knowledge globally, and using simple technology to connect social movements. In the 21st century, activism is all about bringing people together across distance and experience. In the Arab Spring, the primary "weapon" used was the telephone. Conference calls live at the […]
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What makes conference calls so useful to scientists?
Scientists pursue discovery in a highly competitive environment. Funding is tight. Knowledge is hoarded. The first one to publish gets all the glory, and often the financial rewards. Yet nowadays scientists often collaborate on projects even though they might belong to many different institutions scattered across the globe. Conference calls are becoming more useful to […]
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Mobile Conference Call Apps Shatter the Boundaries of Time and Space
Organizations know that meetings are necessary to keep communication flowing between staff teams. Unfortunately, the more staff you have and the more spread out they are, the more difficult it gets to assemble the right people in the same room at the same time. Luckily, you don't have to be Einstein to figure out how […]
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A look back at 2015
Last year was a huge year for all of us here at FreeConference.com - we expanded our team, redesigned our entire product and launched a completely overhauled website, and on top of it iotum Inc (our parent company) was honored with inclusion on the Inc 500, Profit 500, and the Deloitte Fast 50 and 500. […]
