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Web Conferencing
Web enabled features are in high demand because of their affordability and accessibility factors for personal and business use. Free audio, video and web conference software applications can be downloaded from websites which provide downloads in categories like software, music and video.
A web conference is used to conduct live meetings or presentations over the internet. In a web conference, each participant sits at computer and is connected to other participants through the web-enabled services. The services can be downloaded applications on each user’s computer or a web-based application where the users simply enter a website address to enter the conference.
Web Conference
Web enabled features are in high demand because of their affordability and accessibility factors for personal and business use. Free audio, video and web conference software applications can be downloaded from websites which provide downloads in categories like software, music and video.
A web conference is used to conduct live meetings or presentations over the internet. In a web conference, each participant sits at computer and is connected to other participants through the web-enabled services. The services can be downloaded applications on each user’s computer or a web-based application where the users simply enter a website address to enter the conference.
Features of a Web Conference
- Presenters can use multi-media slide presentations created with PowerPoint or Keynote.
- The web conference is done using live video via webcam or digital video camera.
- VoIP allows real time audio communication through the computer with the use of headphones and speakers.
- The web conference can be recorded for later viewing by users with a unique web address.
- Web conferences use whiteboard with annotation to allow the presenter and participants to highlight and mark items on the slide presentation. It is used simply to make notes on a blank whiteboard.
- Chat forums and rooms are designated for live question and answer sessions during or after a web conference.
- Polls and surveys allow the presenter to issue questions with multiple choice answers to the target audience.
- There are web conference programs that allow screen sharing so participants can view anything the presenter has shown on their own screens.
- There are also web conference systems that have application or file sharing which enables information transfers between users and presenters.
- A webinar is a specific type of web conference that is typically one-way, speaker to audience, with limited audience interaction as in a webcast. A webinar can be useful in polling and question and answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter.
Requirements
- A basic floor control protocol
- A mechanism for membership and authorization control
- A mechanism to manipulate and describe media "mixing" or "topology" for multiple media types (audio, video, text)
- A mechanism for notification of conference-related events/changes (for example a floor change)

