In 2022 the corporate and even normal scenario has transformed completely. Every third employee is working remotely, and everyone wants the comfort of their house to do their dream job.
Face-to-face communication works 32 times better than email or any other type of communication that doesn’t include a person’s presence, according to digicommunication.com.
What role does video conferencing platforms play in this:
Video interaction and conferencing platforms have made it super easy and less tedious for employees and employers to communicate remotely without the need to leave their house and come to a workspace, especially to show a presentation or represent any other important material without the need to worry about the material presented being confidential.
Ways in which video interaction platforms can help:
- Face-to-face interaction.
- Making remote work fun and easy.
- Bringing in more productivity as people can ask upfront questions directly to the host via chatboxes.
- Shy people can work conveniently without the need to turn on their cameras unless compulsory.
- Sharing presentations, pdfs, or anything of use to the organization.
- Constantly upgrading the systems and making it more user-friendly.
- Giving complete controls to the host.
- No disturbance as it was used to in the normal physical meetings.
- No traveling costs are involved.
Five most prominent video interaction platforms:
Zoom:
This most famous and appealing video conferencing platforms have made it to the top charts during Covid 19, when the world was on its knees during the pandemic. Zoom was launched in 2011, San Jose, California. In India, Zoom nudged a peak of 70X growth. Starting from schools to universities, small scale to large scale businesses were using the platform as a medium to communicate and share important details and materials. Even the remote control feature added by Zoom was the much-needed one.
Features:
- Screen sharing via desktop laptop or mobile phone.
- Whiteboard is available.
- Improved voice and camera quality.
- An unlimited number of meetings per month.
- Secure Socket layer (SSL) encryption.
Though in the free version of Zoom, you can launch the meeting only for 40 minutes. Zoom charges INR 1,300 per month.
CallXP, virtual interaction, and best monetization platform:
CallXP is the newest version of virtual interaction and conferencing technology for businesses, schools, universities, and even informal meetings and get-togethers.
The platform uses multi-threaded technology, which means even if the network of one of the participants is weak, and the participant is not able to see the video due to network issues. These threads will help the participant to listen to the rest of the session without any or minimal loss of engagement.
CallXP welcomes everyone who is creating something in return for value. Educators, consultants, and entertainers can host free or paid live sessions on its virtual interaction and conferencing platform without the need to share the link with any participant.
Features that make CallXP stand apart from the crowd:
- The multi-threaded technology makes it easier for participants who have network issues to listen and understand what is going on.
- Creators own customized website and admin panel.
- Users or subscribers can directly join the session from the admin panel by watching its date, time, and even the topic of the session.
- The Creator will be provided with their own Digital visiting card, which will act as a QR code directing the user to the creator admin panel.
- The host can share confidential files or presentations with full user control. So, if they don’t want anyone to know the source, even that is possible.
- The host can enable the feature wherein participants will not be able to see each other’s faces.
- Whiteboard can be accessed during the meeting, even by the participants if the host allows.
CallXP is one of the most technologically advanced video platforms for people who conduct meetings, live sessions, webinars on a daily basis.
Additionally, creators will be trouble-free from the extra burden of marketing and branding, customizing their website, and all the unnecessary quotidian jobs they were doing earlier by just purchasing a license starting from INR 14,999.
- Microsoft Teams:
Teams were launched in 2017, though the actual growth happened in 2020 after the outbreak of the pandemic. The most exciting feature of Zoom is its ability to interact with other Microsoft products like Word, Share Point, Excel.
Microsoft Teams charges $5, which is in fact, at the time of penning down this article is INR 370 per month to use the paid version, but even the free version has some common features available.
Common features of Teams:
- Web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- File storage and sharing feature.
- It can host up to 300 users at a time.
- 24/7 phone and web support.
In April 2021, during the pandemic, Microsoft Teams added 145 million users using its application. It was a leap of 26 percent straight from 115 million active users in October 2020.
- Google meet: Meet works in a similar manner as Microsoft teams work. When a user is using Google meet, it has full access to the entire G-suite, which includes Google Calendar, Gmail, etc. You can automatically create a Google meet link, and the Google calendar will remind you of your scheduled meetings on Google meet.
Google meets charges INR 888, which means $ 12 per month for its premium services.
There are some common features that all Google meet plans include:
- Easy to join one-click meetings (no necessary downloads)
- Waiting rooms
- Ability to join from mobile, tablet, or laptop.
- Screenshare capabilities for a few specific documents.
The Google meet service saw a 30 fold increase in usage since January. Google meet teleconferencing added about three million users per day during the pandemic.
