Essay on Videoconferencing

One way of internal electronic communication would be videoconferencing. Videoconferencing is interactive devices that make use of video, computing as well as communication technologies to permit people in different locations to meet personally and do the majority of the same meeting activities they would carry out if all the participants were in the same room.

Videoconferencing is becoming increasingly popular due to improved network service, lower equipment prices, reduced travel budgets, and improved technology. Videoconferencing has grown in popularity. Researches reported that they think they will use this communication tool in their future work weekly (37%) or monthly (32%). Because of the costs associated with the videoconferencing equipment, this medium hasn't been employed often, according to practitioners. There are two million conference rooms in America, but only 10,000 of them are wired for videoconferencing. Given the current scenario, the business communication instructor should discuss this medium as having a more important role in future business communications. Researchers' current perceptions seem to be accurate, but in the future, this technology may play a bigger role in their business lives. (Moorhead, Laura, 1999)

Thus videoconferencing has lowered the space and time barriers between departments and shortened the distance between headquarters and subsidiaries around the globe. It allows users to exchange messages and databases in seconds. "Simply put, fiber to the home, school, and business is an essential infrastructure for economic development in the Information age of the twenty-first century, just as railroads were in the last century, and highways in this century."

The advantages to videoconferencing are that there will be more members in negotiations and meeting between and in organizations as all individuals who are thought to be present will be there. There won’t be any troubles with flight delays and all that................

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