Free Web Conferencing with Voice
Web conferencing is one of the newer trends to hit the global business market. The application is simple enough. It allows you to freely (or for a price) connect with the conference host and other participants via your computer desktop connected to the Internet. A most basic feature of web conferencing is screen sharing, which gives you the capability to view and manipulate to a certain extent the host’s computer. This essentially is what makes the whole thing conferencing via the web because everything is done wholly online, including file sharing, desktop sharing, co-browsing, and most importantly, member interaction.
Communication in web conferencing is usually fostered through the use of either or a combination of the three – voice, video, and text. In today’s web conferencing market, voice communication is the more pervading technology used so members are able to interact with each other. This is probably because of the inherent limitations present in other media, e.g. latency found in video and the inability of text messages to communicate emotions, making web conferencing with voice much more preferable. With voice communication technologies, web conferencing is only one step away to creating a fully developed collaborative environment.
Web conferencing with voice can be expensive. A lot of vendors actually offer services, such as VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol, in order to enable voice in their web conferencing applications. But there are also those applications that are being offered entirely for free. Below is a list of such free web conferencing wares with voice.
PalTalk.com
PalTalk.com is an instant messaging service with web conferencing and voice capabilities. It is compatible with almost all IM services, including MSN, AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo! PalTalk is also Voice and Video Chat-enabled so you can have a real interaction unhindered by the limitations of text chat. PalTalk is entirely for free and you can download it at no charge from their website.
Interwise.com
Interwise.com brings you ECP Connect, another web conferencing service with voice which you can try out for free. ECP Connect presents you with a truly enterprise conferencing solution that promises to deliver you unlimited data, video, and voice conferencing to the extended enterprise for free for a limited amount of time. Some of the services included in the free trial version are free web meetings, virtual classes, web seminars, and live collaboration. The web conferencing software also features free recording and on-demand playback, free access to the Interwise global network, and free VoIP through the computer and the phone in the same event.
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