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Web conferencing helps to facilitate people in negotiating a business deal and even reach a consensus in a meeting. Conferencing services provided by the internet let a person be virtually present at all the events and put forward his/her points.

Such web conference companies allow the users to access various facilities with wide range of solutions which are also cost effective. The main features of online conferencing facilities include cost effectiveness as well as time optimization.

How to select internet Conferencing Company?
To select a web conferencing company, one needs to check few things and also understand his / her own requirements. Here are some points worth mentioning:

Select the service: Most web conferencing companies offer the help of operators, so that people wishing to join the web conference should not do that at random. For joining the conference one should get invitation. People joining a conference should be able to get ample help from the service providers in sorting out the problems faced by them.

Costing: The billing of the conferencing service depends primarily on three kinds of plans. As a customer, one can select any one of these three plans. Among these plans, flat-fee is one where you can deposit a specific amount of money for allowing any number of participant in the conferencing. In this type of service the time frame is not also taken into account. The second type of payment is based on the number of participants who take part in the web conference. The third kind is related to billing of customers on the basis of time and thus the cost is calculated on per minute basis.

Web conferencing tools available: A conferencing vendor offers various tools to conduct conferencing through internet. On the basis of his or her specific requirements one should select these tools. Some of these tools are mentioned below:

1. Abode Acrobat Connect - This tool is compatible with both Mac and Windows. It gives whiteboard facility and allows up to 15 participants. Thus, it is considered among the best tools related to conferencing.

2. Dimdim is another tool which has a free version having multiple features. All these features are available in demo version. So, it is preferable to purchase only one of its editions. The features offered by Dimdim are desktop sharing, video chat, application sharing, recording and presentation. Central Desktop helps the web conference participants to conduct editing in the wiki style. It also includes many other important facilities such as archiving and tracking of project. Most importantly, it is supported by almost all browsers. However, numbers of participants are limited to 10 only. There are few more associated tools such as Glance, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger and MSN messenger.

Why Select Online Conferencing?

There are a few more reasons for selecting web conferencing, apart from saving the time and travel expenses. The presentations done can be viewed by each participant, be it spreadsheet, graph or any other document. Moreover, one can interact with multiple groups at one go. The Pointer ability helps in keeping everyone in the same track. Presentations can be enlarged and the entire screen can be filled with that.