Video Conferences

Technological breakthroughs never fail to amaze me. Take for instance online meetings or video conferences – they have practically revolutionized the way corporate meetings are being conducted in the boardrooms right now! Companies appreciate the ease of setting up and the amount of control they can maintain in conducting their meetings. Video conferences are not only limited to company meetings but they are also being used to conduct company trainings. Its success has been attributed to the substantial savings in travel related costs that companies realized after resorting to it. Another big advantage - video conferences are able to promote an effective communication system by breaking down geographical barriers between branches of a big company located in different areas.

In the market today, if you go check out the different service providers for this type of product, MegaMeeting stands out as unique for providing the following:

• A browser based video conference software that practically requires no downloading, installing or configuring. It needs only an internet browser, a broadband internet connection and a web camera or digital video camera.
  
• Its software is flexible to accommodate Windows, Mac or Linux based systems to participate in a Web Conference.
  
• It can accommodate up to 16 participants at the same time, and the VOIP features make it possible for the participants to use standard microphones and headsets.
  
• And most important is, MegaMeeting.com offers high-end Video & Web Conferencing systems at a much more affordable or manageable price than their competitors.
  

Their website is also worth checking into – it offers a very professional look, comprehensive and detailed information, user friendly and quite easy to navigate.

Ode To Makati

I stumbled upon these pictures from WOW Philippines (http://www.wowphilippines.com.ph/), and I became nostalgic...you see, I used to work in Makati back in the late 80's). In fact fact one of the companies I worked with is located somewhere in the middle of this picture. This is almost exactly how it looked during that time...

Coming from a small city, it was overwhelming to be engulfed by skyscrapers and lots of people as you walk around... but when one is young it is kind of exciting.

During the nights, I would usually take a walk around the Ayala commercial center to avoid waiting lines or full buses and horrendous traffic. Sometimes my friends and I would dine out during paydays, as Makati denizens would usually do...

And the nights wow! (especially during Christmas), were surreal with its glittering lights...

However I moved back to Cebu in mid 90's. Came back to Makati only in the late 90's and early 2000 to attend some company sponsored trainings. There were probably a million changes taking place while I was not around...

Maybe when I come back once again, I will probably see a different place this time...But it will give me a chance to re-discover Makati. I would be glad to compare notes with those of an impressionable twenty year old.

From: An Ex-Makati girl