Meeting Without Moving

The first step which employers should take when seeking to reduce risks associated with travel by road, is to eliminate all unnecessary road journeys. Numerous facilities now exist to promote and facilitate telephone conferencing, video-conferencing and tele-conferencing as an alternative to business travel. Besides improving safety, this can also reduce harm to the environment, reduce costs, save time and stress and promote business efficiency.

Article on videoconferencing by Fleet News.

Roger Bibbings discusses the benefits of video conferencing as an alternative to travelling ( PDF format 30kb)

Links

Powownow Conference calls without the commitment.
BT Conferencing Wide range of audio, video and web conferencing solutions.
Community Networks Tele-conference provider for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Web conferencing software.

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