
1. Always give and take during conversations, listen and talk, no one wants to be talked at and try to give a name of the person you are talking directly to if there are several people listening as it can be difficult to tell.
2. Make use of your mute button. This can block you out if there is something you need to discuss privately, and make sure you give your recipients a few seconds to reply because they may be removing their mute button.
3. In large video conference meetings, try to keep your questions simple because generating consensus can be difficult, so more specific answers can sometimes be gained if you ask the minority e.g who doesn't understand instead of who does.
4. Never shout down the microphone because the people on the other end will only hear you shouting. The systems are built for you to talk normally into.
5. If you worry about people not being able to hear you, have a test run or sound check before hand to prevent this being an issue when it comes to an important call.
6. Even though you are talking to the people on screen, try to look through the camera lens instead of the screen because this will give more eye contact.
7. Make some necessary preparations like getting used to how much you can move in front of the camera before you go out of the picture, before it comes to your conference call.
8. Try not to move too much in front of the screen because depending on both your internet bandwidth restrictions and hardware and software, fast movements may blur up the screen on either end of the conversation.
9. Consider your attire when you are planning on using Video Conferencing. The recipients can see your clothes for a start, and some colours can make your skin tone look funny or blend into the background.
10. Just like your clothes give an impression of you and your business, so do your surroundings. Make sure you are in a place you don't mind potential customers and such seeing and that it is clean, tidy and presentable.
Elite Telecom works alongside Polycom to come up with the world’s most cutting edge technology solutions for video conferencing, audio conferencing and telepresence. The hardware and software that we provide allows you to connect and share data from anywhere in the world with your business partners, customers, suppliers or employees. Video conferencing is fast becoming the preferred method of long-distance business communication. Business travel is expensive, unhealthy for the environment and can end up in disaster. Video conferencing is the solution.
Microsoft and video conferencing company Polycom have signed a multi-year deal that will see them working together in the unified communications market.
Microsoft already has a space in the unified communications (UC) market however, UC is a growing trend amongst businesses. As companies try to become ever more efficient and productive, UC seems to be the way to go to ensure that businesses run smoother.
The partnership between Microsoft and Polycom should bring a whole host of new and exciting UC products to the market and both companies seem to be awaiting the partnership with anticipation.
Polycom has a brand new chief executive – and guess who it is? None other than Andrew Miller, former CEO of Tandberg and former Cisco employee.
Thirteen year Polycom worker Hagerty is to step down as president, chairman and CEO of the video conferencing company. It was Hagerty who originally pioneered the deals between Polycom and big companies such as International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard, in order to stop Polycom being swallowed up by larger companies such as Cisco which acquired Tandberg and Logitech which purchased LifeSize recently.
Polycom is hoping that by utilising Miller as the new chief executive, Polycom will find ways to offer more innovative video conferencing systems without having to rely on bigger companies.
Polycom has teamed up with Microsoft to provide a set of unified communications services with the software giant. Polycom is a video conferencing company and its popular telepresence solutions seem especially suited to Microsoft’s unified communications solution.
The unified communications offering from Polycom and Microsoft will include voice, video and data collaboration, telepresence products and IP phones and presence-based real-time IM, to name but a few. In the near future, video conferencing is expected to boom and unified communication solutions are already proving to be extremely popular with businesses.
Polycom, video conferencing solutions supplier, is apparently working with Morgan Stanley to route out the best possible options in a market that has suddenly become über competitive.
As Cisco is this week receiving the final approval for its purchase of Tandberg, the market has just found its new King – which leaves Polycom on uncertain ground. The main option that Polycom seems to be considering right now, is selling to the highest bidder. Although it may seem like a good idea to get out of the game now, experts predict that the global video conferencing market is soon going to reach astronomical heights. Best be sure before you sell Polycom!
Polycom, video conferencing solutions provider, has been awarded the North American Conferencing Equipment Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost & Sullivan for the Polycom Architected Telepresence Experience (ATX) 300 conferencing solution.
The Polycom Architected Telepresence Experience (ATX) 300 is a video conferencing solution that has all the key elements of a Polycom Telepresence solution but is designed to key specifications i.e. to fit certain meeting rooms or for special meetings. The award is in recognition of Polycom’s unique service and accomplishments in the video conferencing industry.
Polycom has just received the Unified Capabilities Approved Product List certification from the U.S. Department of Defence for the Polycom RMX 2000. The Polycom RMX 2000 is a media conferencing platform that delivers audio and video conferencing solutions for businesses of all sizes. Polycom is a world-renowned leader in telepresence and communication systems.
Polycom, a leading company in telepresence and communications systems, has released a scalable CMA desktop video collaboration application that also supports the Apple Mac OSX. The new solution offers interoperability with the existing CMA Desktop for Windows and telepresence and video conferencing systems. With this new release, Polycom has significantly enhanced its portfolio of scalable desktop video solutions across different platforms. With the world of telecoms always changing and moving forward, Polycom is a company that is constantly coming up with new innovations to enhance communications between businesses.
Polycom, a leader in video conferencing telepresence, has just announced support for a new video-compression technology – H.264 High Profile. Video conferencing is huge business at the minute, so new innovations, such as the H.264 High Profile, are assured a warm welcome!
The H.264 High Profile reduces the bandwidth needs of HD telepresence and SD video conferencing by up to 50% - which, as you can imagine, would save customers a lot of money. As well as enabling more video deployments. The main barrier in the way of businesses turning to video conferencing is often price, so with Polycom’s H.264 High Profile support, cost is no longer that much of an issue!