Last month TED, the most famous and most inspiring conference of them all, finally arrived at Tel-Aviv and I was privileged enough to attend TEDxTelAviv 2010. As expected the conference was wonderful, filled with great ideas definitely worth spreading. What was also inspiring was the way the TED vision was executed in the conference itself, something that hit me during an inspiring presentation by Bruno Giussani, the European director of TED, discussing the TED principles in his lecture titled “Ideas
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 17th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
In a recent post on “Talking Video” Tsahi discussed a recent Forbes Insights study, that stated that “Business Executives Prefer Face-to-Face Meetings over Virtual Contact“. While Tsahi discussed why video conferencing is a legitimate alternative, I took the time to read carefully the study and its results, specifically these: 58% of the respondents said they were travelling for business less today than before the recession (January 2008); 34% indicated they were travelling much less frequently. 59% of
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 6th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
As part of my sisyphic effort to stay updated with the latest in the video conferencing market, I’m using various tools to aggregate everything and anything that concerns this technology, this industry. The most talked-about topic in the many blogs, PRs and presentations I have been reading ever since I joined this industry is, without a doubt, the benefits of video conferencing. Our industry is preaching video conferencing as a communication means for more than a decade, in an attempt
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 12th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing