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Skype Goes Conferencing

For businesses, audio conferencing has become a standard business practice. It is more practical than flying one’s various executives in from various parts of the country when you need them running the business where they are. Still, there are some times when it audio conferencing isn’t enough.

Skype has included among its upgrades the ability to conference call. There are quite a few who were skeptical about this feature and who can blame them? There are more tried and tested conference-friendly solutions out in the market.

The simple truth is, while there are other existing options such as WebEx and Microsft Live Communications Servers, Skype allows the companies to save on their phone charges. At the same time they get to share their documents and presentations. All any Skype user needs is the Unyte plug-in. Once installed, users can start a Unyte session from Skype chat or even from the system tray.

Starting a session is as simple as sending your chosen participants the Unyte URL spawned for the session you open. The recipients simply click on the URL to join the session. The basic Unyte service can have as many as four participants in a session.

If you have more than four participants, WebDialog maker of Unyte, has their Meeting Central web conferencing service as an option. It can hold as many as 500 participants and has polling, audiocasting and recording amongst its services.