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=Welcome! =

 This site was created by Ahmad Landrum, Marsha Proulx, Nellie Williamson, and Margaret Stricker of Carthage College. The purpose of this wiki is to share our information about videoconferencing in business, education, healthcare, and social sectors.

=The New Meeting Place =

Videoconferencing is a hybrid form of communication that brings together audio and video for a face to face meeting without the physical presence. Developed decades ago, it began to gain popularity in the 1990's due to the ability to faster internet capabilities. Videoconferencing is used in many arenas including education, business, and for social networking. Mainly used for meetings in its early days, it has evolved into a dynamic communication tool for learning, socializing, and multiple business uses.

Video conferencing technology is fast emerging as an efficient and productive communication tool. The future trend of this technology continues to improve by leaps and bounds and has been embraced by organizations of all types.As the technology costs continue to decrease, business, media, law, education, medicine, health and many other fields will be immensely benefited by this video conferencing technology. As many other technologies have become embedded in our daily lifestyle, so soon may be videoconferencing.