ReadyShow Web Conferencing
March 19, 2009 – 6:42 pmToday, many small, medium and even big businesses are switching or at least considering web and video conferencing services to cut travel and other expenses during this economic crisis. Video conferencing saves not only money, but can greatly increase productivity among remote teams and sales forces along with being a “green” solution for collaboration.
ReadyShow Web conferencing is a unified conferencing solution by The Conference Group which provides audio, video and web conferencing services. The service allows groups to collaborate anywhere in the world as if they were in the same room, all while reducing operation costs. ReadyShow can be tailored to suit the design and features required by each business.
ReadyShow is a stand alone application that also includes a web-based application so that it can be used cross-platform and without requiring a download. The service can then be accessed from any computer, anywhere in the world as long as it has a reliable internet connection.
Features of the service include online PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents, and the ability to share applications and documents via screensharing in real time. A feature (which sounds more like a gimmick than anything) is that audience members can actually raise their hand to ask a question or vote on an issue. So if a poll is taken, the cameras recognize who has raised their hands and instantly tallies the result, making the meeting seem more realistic than other online polls that require you to check a box. While I haven’t tried this feature, I’d have to think that the quality and accuracy of the system and camera recognizing a raised hand opposed to someone scratching their head might make this feature a bit annoying. Whether valuable or not though, it’s nice to see this company thinking outside the box.
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