Advantages Of Video Conferencing

Register to read the introduction… Video conferencing can be preformed either the internet or though video conferencing portholes. Video conferencing is the best option for real-time meetings of teams that are dispersed across the country or world when traveling and budget restrictions make a face to face meeting not feasible. Video conferencing also can incorporate the use of the internet to enhance the richness by allowing PowerPoint, net meeting or such online tools like go to my pc that puts your desktop online for all members to see. Managers need to plan these meetings carefully though. If your team is located across time zones there needs to be thought in what time the meeting is held. Not to early or late so it inconveniences the most distanced team, distractions like that will only take away from the effectiveness of your …show more content…
A rich communication medium allows instantaneous feedback, clarification, questioning and correction of errors by group members. When verbal, visual and textual communications are supported, the media are considered to be rich while only textual communication is provided for lean media. Uncertainty and unclear messages can be diminished by choosing the right media, while certain media are better able to transmit information in situations of uncertainty. There is no medium that has the highest values on all five dimensions so that no medium can be called richest under Daft and Lengel's media richness theory. Depending on the characteristics of the message a sender wants to deliver, and depending on the task a group is dealing with, it is not necessarily true that face-to-face can process group communication more effectively. For instance when communicators have to discuss a large chart of