Web meetings: a practical way to save time, reduce travel costs and carbon footprint

You might have been invited to give a talk or participate in a meeting far away from where you originally were intending to be at that time. Earlier you might have weighted the time spent in travelling, the cost related with the travel and also the carbon footprint with the importance of the talk. Now there are fortunately some good alternatives. If you want to give a lecture or participating in a distant meeting with several participants, it is possible to use a mobile conference tool like mconf/bigbluebutton (see http://mconf.org/m/). Setting up such as conference is easy and takes only a few minutes. Here is a short introduction:

Why not try such a web conference tool? It is free (and open source), it will save you time, reduce your travel costs and your carbon footprints. If you want to visit my weboffice, you can visit me on http://weboffice.fadnes.net/ or https://mconf.org/webconf/lars-t-fadnes.  (please send me a message to ensure that I am “at home” in the web office). If you want to make your own web office, you can visit http://mconf.org/m/