What Greater Social Responsibility Is There Than Climate Change? Last year I participated in Blog Action Day and promised myself to make it a tradition. After
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 15th, 2009 | 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
A few weeks ago I came across a global survey, initiated by Blue Coat Systems Inc., claiming that 73% of enterprises are putting greater emphasis on using high quality video conferencing instead of traveling. I already covered the video conferencing vs. air travel in the past, but this is very encouraging. On the other hand, Blue Coat field personnel are quoted to have “witnessed a number of common mistakes in trying to add high-quality video conferencing to existing networks”, and
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 18th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
There has been much talk, too much IMHO, about video conferencing reducing the need to travel, eliminating millions of Airline seats in 2-3 years. And while the airline companies admit that “video conferencing is now a strong competitor“, it seems that they are not really doing anything about this future threat. Nothing but this… This is a genuine commercial for Air Tran, an American low-fare airline targeting business travelers. Their bottom line is that you should fly to visit
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 28th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
