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If you’re a professional in your field, I’m sure you are all too familiar with the conference scene. Some see conferences as a getaway from the usual day to day office life. Others see them as time wasted that could have been used doing something much more productive. Depending on the conference you’re going to, it could be a little bit of both. However, workshops, seminars and conferences can give you the chance to take time out of your busy life to focus exclusively on some aspect of your business, free from interruptions and distractions. If you’re just starting out workshops can give you a crash course, or if you’ve been at it awhile, they’re a great tune-up. You can come away with some new strategies, extra motivation or a look at the basics with fresh eyes. Here are some basic tips to get the most out of your conference.

Have a game plan

Conferences tend to have one thing in common, they throw a tremendous amount of information at you at once. As a result, if you don’t have a plan on what you want to focus on while there, you could walk away with absolutely nothing, which would be a complete waste of your time.

Networking

I think this is pretty much a given. While at a conference with many like minded people you are bound to run into many individuals that could be potential business opportunities in the future. In order to take full advantage of this networking scene make sure you follow a few simple rules

-Wear your name tag (preferably on your right side)

-Describe yourself or your business in less than 10 seconds

-Don’t do all the talking, listen as much as you talk

-Don’t linger in one place for too long

-Follow up on your connections once the event is over

Follow these simple tips and you are sure to maximize your conference time.

Communication will be key after the conference once you start following up with the contacts you made while there. GoFaxer can help enhance your communications with others in your field by offering online fax services. Contact GoFaxer today to learn more about how online fax can make communications in your office much more efficient.

Project Wonderland is an open-source toolkit for building virtual worlds. They have already improved telecommunications in business by building online replicas of offices or classrooms where individuals can use 3D representations of themselves to attend meetings, classes, etc.The toolkit comes with a prebuilt office environment, but developers who want to design their own world can download instructions on how to do so.

Green Phosphor, a user of Project Wonderland, have taken things a step further by using a business data-mapping application, giving 3D illustrations of data graphs inside virtual world. This gives the user the feel of physically standing in the middle of a spreadsheet.

Wonderland has also differentiated themselves from the competition by adding an audio aspect to the virtual world. With this feature, an individual can more realistically participate in a conference call, class, or presentation. The audio feature has the capability of allowing an individual to be the main speaker by moving themselves in front of the microphone, or you can have a quiet conversation with the individual next to you. There are even private rooms you can use to have side conversations away from the group.

Much like Project Wonderland, GoFaxer is always working to provide new and efficient online services for your business. Contact GoFaxer about our online fax services today.

In a bold move towards revamping the methods used to deliver office software, Microsoft may soon begin streaming office software to user desktops.  According to Microsoft, this new method would ensure users would only use parts of the Office suite they need, allowing for price calibration and new methods for deploying software across large companies.  It would also allow for monthly service charges to be incurred and for product updates to be instantaneously delivered to every office user within a company.

“Streaming software” is not a new concept amongst providers of office and productivity suites.  Rather, Microsoft is begrudgingly giving in to providing these offerings as the result of competitors, such as Google, changing office offerings to suit emerging technologies.  Undercutting shrink-wrapped software offerings could change the nature of software distribution.

GoFaxer is already on top of the changing trends for software and online service delivery.  We provide a seamless method for turning your office into a paperless, fax-ready environment that integrates with other forms of office communications.  Inquire about our online fax services today.

Cell phones are becoming increasingly more important in our daily lives. We use our cell phones for various purposes, one major purpose being business. Because of this, we are always looking for ways to personalize our phones to get the exact features we desire. Listed below are a few features than can further enhance your phone’s usefulness in your business affairs.

VoIP

Mobile VoIP is an increasingly popular tool for reducing international calling costs, receiving calls on your cell phone from people trying to reach you at a different number and combining voice, data and image on your cell phone.

Remote Desktop Control and File Storage

The need for your phone to have some of the same functions as a computer is becoming increasingly popular. Because of this, we’re starting to see free mobile phone services that will let you access the files on your home computer either through a direct connection to the computer or through an online file storage system.

Fax Services

Yes, your phone is capable of receiving faxes. There are different systems available but the most common method is that you set up an online fax system that will change the fax content to an email or SMS message and forward it to your phone. Contact GoFaxer to learn about new ways of receiving your faxes via the internet.

What will the state of technology be in ten or twenty years? Most of you will still be working in such an environment. I can’t help but wonder what it will be like.

If someone had told me twenty years ago that online fax services would replace the modern fax machine, I would have been amazed. It would have been hard to imagine the Internet and see exactly how dramatically it’s changed the world.

I think that in twenty years we will have lots of computer screens. They’ll be more than just flat. They’ll be holographically projected and relatively inexpensive. So we’ll have many of them through out the interior of our homes and offices.

We won’t have PCs or even laptops. We’ll have small portable interfaces that will link into the Internet, where all of our applications will be running. Meaning, we’ll have very little need for a lot of memory on the computer. Just really strong connections to the Internet.

I think that music and movies will be relatively free, but used to cross promote other products. You’ll see movies and music used to draw customers to websites which will then sell ad space, which generates revenue.

It’s going to be a very exciting world to live in. I can’t wait.

I recently read a great Ezine Article by Elizabeth Morgan about Internet fax. The article points out two important advantages to this type of service:

The first is the savings in costs and time, which are really the same thing. No longer must you buy or rebuy traditional fax machines that have become a necessary standard in office supplies over the last twenty years. No longer do you have to purchase paper and toner for the machine. No longer do you have hire a fax machine repair man when it breaks.

The other big savings is in time. You no longer have to get up out of your seat and go to the fax machine to retrieve your fax. No longer do you have to print up the document that you’re going to fax on the copy machine, and then take it over to the fax machine to send it. No longer do you have to dial the number, wait for the number to connect. No longer do you have to figure out the correct way to put it in the machine. And when it doesn’t work, you don’t have to find someone in the office to show you what you’re doing wrong. It’s super easy.

Elizabeth Morgan says:

“The speed of the Internet and the ease-of-use of email have fused with the most popular form of business communication. With fax services, the way you communicate will definitely improve. Try Internet fax services now.”