Having a three-way video conferencing

In today’s world, people are so used to having several tasks on their daily agenda. This may include personal matters such as meeting up with family or friends, or doing recreational activities, and academic or business activities like going in a study group, doing some research, making reports, or meeting up with other people.

But what if you need or you want to meet with someone who is far away… without exactly spending much on travel costs? What do you do? Have a video conference!

Video conferencing is a convenient way to communicate with people who may be far from your place. In this way, you do not just listen and speak with another person but you literally see them while speaking with them. It is just like having a talk with them in the same room. Furthermore, video conferencing is not limited to one to one communication. Instead, you can have a 3 way video conference, or even a bigger one.

Benefits

Having a three way video conferencing can be very beneficial to you. In case of emergency purposes, for example, you urgently need to meet up with your client and your boss at the same time. The easiest way to do so is by inviting them to a video conference. This would only not save time and money from going to a meeting place, but it will also hasten up whatever decision you have to make. If you suddenly miss your family who’s living abroad, you just have to turn on your computer and webcam and you can already see and talk to your sister and your mother at the same time.

So what are the sites that you can go to whenever you are going to conduct a three way video conference? Here are the most popular sites that people recommend for three way videoconferencing.

• Skype. Most people believe that Skype is limited to person to person video conferences, well, to set things straight, you can have a three way video conference using this. All you have to do is to click on the “conference” button and invite whoever you need to meet up with, add them, and they’ll be part of your conference participants.

• Palbee. Unlike Skype which you need to download, Palbee is web-based. You’ll just have to sign up for an account and a webcam, and you’re set to have video conferences. However, the downside of this is that the conference is limited for an hour only.

• Wengomeeting. Similar to Palbee, Wengomeeting is also web-based. There are no needs for downloads and installations but you’ll need to have a Flash player in your computer as this runs through Flash technology. Just use the online form to invite your participants and you’re off to your video conference. Wengomeeting runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

• iChat. This only works for MAC OS X. Like the others, this is also for free. Its other features include customized backgrounds (videos and sounds) which might tell where you are on the duration of the meeting. You can fool your friend that you are on a beach when you are just in your bedroom.

• Oovoo. You can download this free software from the net and invite friends or colleagues for video conferences. After installing the software, all you need is an internet connection, a webcam, and a microphone, and you are ready for your video conference.

These are just a few of the many ways on how to have three way, or even more, video conferences. Video conferences are made accessible to everyone, are free, and have been designed to suit your needs so don’t have second thoughts about it. Go meet up with other people through your computer.