Difference between revisions of "Phone Conferences"
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | {{Marketing}} | + | {{Marketing}} __FORCETOC__ |
| − | = | + | = Introduction = |
From time to time, to discuss a project or a task, people need to get together on the phone instead of using e-mail, IRC or instant messaging. In most countries, people can initiate three-party conferences themselves via their regular phone line, with the disadvantage that it costs a lot and they have to pay everything on their own. While for a long time only companies could afford to host a professional conferencing system, there now exist some public conference services to make our lifes easier. This page is intended to give some links to free conference services anyone can use. | From time to time, to discuss a project or a task, people need to get together on the phone instead of using e-mail, IRC or instant messaging. In most countries, people can initiate three-party conferences themselves via their regular phone line, with the disadvantage that it costs a lot and they have to pay everything on their own. While for a long time only companies could afford to host a professional conferencing system, there now exist some public conference services to make our lifes easier. This page is intended to give some links to free conference services anyone can use. | ||
<b>Important: Never discuss highly secure and confidential issues on a free conferencing system as long as you don't know anything about how thrustworthy it is.</b> | <b>Important: Never discuss highly secure and confidential issues on a free conferencing system as long as you don't know anything about how thrustworthy it is.</b> | ||
| + | |||
| + | = Overview of services = | ||
| + | In general, there are three types of services we can distinguish: services you need your computer for; services where conference attendees dial in using a normal phone and a phone number, i.e. regular dial-in services; services where conference attendees are being called by the conferencing system on their regular phone numbers. | ||
| + | |||
| + | == using your computer == | ||
| + | * Skype | ||
| + | * VoIP services | ||
| + | |||
| + | == regular dial-in services == | ||
| + | |||
| + | == regular dial-out services == | ||
Revision as of 23:45, 16 August 2007
| OOo Marketing Project
Please view the guidelines
|
|---|
|
Categories: Pages:
Strategic Marketing Plan Pages: Projects on this Wiki: (edit list)
|
| Marketing.OpenOffice |
Contents
Introduction
From time to time, to discuss a project or a task, people need to get together on the phone instead of using e-mail, IRC or instant messaging. In most countries, people can initiate three-party conferences themselves via their regular phone line, with the disadvantage that it costs a lot and they have to pay everything on their own. While for a long time only companies could afford to host a professional conferencing system, there now exist some public conference services to make our lifes easier. This page is intended to give some links to free conference services anyone can use.
Important: Never discuss highly secure and confidential issues on a free conferencing system as long as you don't know anything about how thrustworthy it is.
Overview of services
In general, there are three types of services we can distinguish: services you need your computer for; services where conference attendees dial in using a normal phone and a phone number, i.e. regular dial-in services; services where conference attendees are being called by the conferencing system on their regular phone numbers.
using your computer
- Skype
- VoIP services
