Blog Category: Audio Conferencing
Summer is here. It awakens our urge of sailing towards the setting sun…and composing far-fetched nautical puns. It also inspires our highly poetic fibre, revealing to us parallels that we never thought of before. You see… a conference call is like a boat. Without a strong captain, you might fall adrift. And as the captain is always…
Many of us can relate to this quote from Dave Barry: “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’” It’s quite the catch, we’ve all lost hours to wasteful and ineffective meetings, and yet…
The execution of a perfect conference call is an art. You are attempting to communicate with a group of people across the globe, in different time zones and with different relationships to technology, decorum and self-awareness. They have the potential to take years off your life, raise your blood pressure to abnormally high levels or…
The recent celebrity non-fest that was Fyre Festival culminated in a conference call held by the management of Fyre Media, the company behind the doomed festival. We all know that with time and travel costs, conference calls can be an excellent working alternative to meeting face to face, however, we suspect that the management may…
We’re mid way through December and Christmas Spirit should be as thick as soup in the air in the office, however, with more and more work forces becoming dispersed and more employees working remotely it can be difficult to include them in the festivities. One helpful tool is our Customisable Hold Music, which is available…
A recent article in the Irish Times bemoaned the futility and odiousness of Conference Calls. Problems listed included: People dialling in late. Not knowing the people on the call. Dogs barking in the background. Dull Conference Calls This obviously caught our attention as that’s the service we provide! While all these problems do occur, it’s not…
Hold Music is a modern nuisance, often not considered until you’re on the receiving end. There are a multitude of opportunities for it to crop up and not least of all on conference calls but the people at 247meeting got to thinking recently; is hold music a help or a hindrance while our customers are…
Jenny Lawson, known online as The Bloggess, captured the moment beautifully: that sinking feeling you get as your beloved pet decides their input is critical to your conference call in this post. The expressions and grimaces on Jenny’s face will be recognised by any pet lover who has tried to hold a conference call or…