The use of video collaboration solutions can accelerate business performance in many ways.  Of course, there are the obvious impacts in the form of lower travel cost, and the increase in employee productivity from being able to participate in meetings from the office instead of standing in lines at airports.  Decision-making is also accelerated since meetings can be called instantly – with little notice.  And there is the practicality of employees being able to attend meetings virtually even if they aren’t able to participate physically due to weather, sickness or other circumstances.  The bottom line is that video collaboration allows us to move ideas instead of people. [Read more…]

I remember the day my daughter asked me why the sky was blue. It seems simple enough; we see the sky as blue, therefore it’s blue. Little did she know how much mind-blowing science was happening to produce what appeared so obvious to her. As adults, we know that the process of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface is complex, based on a unique system of dependents and variables. Yet all we need to do is simply look up to enjoy it. We don’t have to do anything extraordinary to experience it.  [Read more…]

As the old adage goes, humans are social creatures. While other animals survive through tooth and claw, we are beings who have learned how to thrive in our environment through the power of communication. This fact is best illustrated by taking a look at some of the most ground-breaking inventions of the past two centuries – a category that has only grown, and will likely continue to expand, as time runs on. From the telegraph to the land-line, the ingenuity and resourcefulness of mankind is something that has allowed us to flourish and develop new ways of interacting with one another… [Read more…]