Face-to-Face VS. Video Conference: A Which-to-Choose Checklist
Filed under: OCS 2007, OCS 2007 R2, Unified Communications, Voice over IP
Traffic. The price of gas. No time anyway. Airport security. There’’s lots of reasons why business travel is more irritating than ever. (That last one’’s bad enough!) So it’’s no surprise that we field lots of questions about conferencing systems.
Which always brings up the same question. “Which is better, face-to-face meetings or conferencing?”
By “conferencing” I mean conference calls, video conferencing through systems like OCS, etc. Any system used to bridge the communication gap between you and someone who’’s not close enough for you to knock on their door.
So which IS better? Well, it depends on a few things. Like the person with whom you”re conferencing. Their relationship to you. Where they”re located. And what technology’’s available.
What Types of Meetings Do We Have?
Let’’s start with the types of meeting out there. The “type” is determined by the other person (or group) you meet, and why. This gives us about 5 major meeting types:
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