Reinventing the conference call
Yesterday, Seth Godin shared his thoughts on how to make a conference call more effective–by setting up a chat room for all participants and typing and conversing at the same time.
If your conference call is about a document or set of documents, why not set up a Backboard instead? Share with all participants before you start so everyone sees the document in their browser. Unlike screen sharing or typical web conferencing, there is no need for conference participants to download any software to get started.
Like Godin’s chat, comments are real-time and help to guide the conversation, but with Backboard you can see markup, annotations and approvals as well.