Web conferences enable groups to work faster and more effectively by eliminating travel whether it's five feet, five miles or five time zones. Whether an enterprise wide application rollout, sales training, educational needs or team building, web conferences are helping to deliver the information in timely and efficient way.

In an age where time is money, the Internet shrinks distances. No longer does a team in California have to fly to New York to meet with their counterparts. It's not necessary for a student to have to physically sit in a college campus classroom and for companies that interact both internally and externally all over their regions and even around the world, the expense and time-consumption of travel can be limited.

Web conferences allow people to communicate whether it's through streaming video, chat rooms or voice messaging. Web conferences allow stars to visit with the fans in auditorium format. Everyone from CEOs to managing operators to the home-based business owner can utilize these services and all they really require is access to the Internet.

While web conferences cannot fully replace the benefits of face-to-face meetings, the time and effort spent on management issues when coordinating these in person sessions can be dramatically reduced. If employees are attending a web conference while in their own offices, they can carry on with other business matters when they are not required to participate.

It is easier to avoid scheduling conflicts when members of the meeting do not have to travel to the meeting site and if a business has multiple locations in a city, finding a central point for all

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