UK companies are failing to match fine words with positive action in implementing green policies throughout the business, with fewer than one third of respondents believing that they are moving strongly or very strongly to adopting ‘green' policies in their organisations. So finds a survey of UK enterprise businesses undertaken by Vanson Bourne on behalf of leading unified collaboration and communications services provider, Genesys Conferencing.

For both small and large businesses, video conferencing is becoming one of the leading tools for communication. Video conferencing is a form of telecommunication that utilizes both audio and video for a virtual meeting. This basically involves either two people having a simple conversation referred to as P2P or point to point or it could be multi-point involving several different locations with many people linked together for the virtual meeting.

As the use of conferencing sessions for personal as well as in professional communications increases, there is a specific demand for language services to support worldwide communications capabilities. In response to this need, audio, web and video conferencing services provider Conference Plus, Inc. (ConferencePlus has announced an agreement with Language Learning Enterprises, Inc., (LLE) that will bring to its conferencing customers, on-demand "live" 24-hour telephone interpretation in 150 different languages.

Web conferencing is the new way in which businesses are doing their communication. By availing of conferencing, enterprises save on the costs of travel and accommodation. Moreover, conferencing helps enterprises talk to clients in various different countries.

Every one of us has wondered what the "do"s and "don't"s of conference calling are. Indeed it does, and should be followed if you want to make your next conference call a winning one.

Operating profit came in at 44.9 mln usd - up on 31.5 mln usd for the preceeding Q4 - and cash flow from operations totalled 49.9 mln usd, a result the company said was driven by continued strong working capital management.

Apart from technicalities, a conference call is very much like other official meetings. Whether you are sitting face to face with your employees or your clients or on a conference call with them, the etiquette required in meetings will be necessary.

GBH Communications, Inc., a leading provider of conferencing solutions, products and services, was named Voice Products Reseller of the Year at Polycom's 2008 Global Partner Conference held recently in San Diego, California. This award is given each year to the reseller with the highest year-over-year sales growth, which GBH achieved in 2007.

Like in other meetings, there are etiquettes for conference calling. These rules apply as the etiquette that you should maintain to see to it that the call achieves what it set out to.

The conference, which will showcase the latest state-of-the-art systems designed to enable and enhance collaboration and reduce the need for in-person meetings, will focus on real-world applications of telepresence and will feature case studies, roundtables, and business analyses led by industry leaders. Speakers will explore a wide variety of topics ranging from management of the global enterprise via telepresence to ways that the technology can reduce the corporate carbon footprint and contribute to the development of sustainable business models.