Tips On Planning A Successful Video ConferenceWritten by Tim Gorman
Planning a successful video conference can actually be harder then it sounds. There are several key factors you want to make sure and get right or your conference could become a total nightmare. This short article gives several tips on making sure you succeed with your next video conference.Nobody likes long-winded meetings and video conferences are no different. Always plan your conferences to last no longer then 1 or 2 hours long. Longer sessions will leave participants tired and bored. Make sure you prepare an agenda before event. Double check to make sure you have all of your graphic aids, teaching materials and any other important or relevant materials on hand. Prepare a suitable seating arrangement and ensure that nameplates or tags (if you use them) are clearly legible and nothing is misspelled. Try to plan your video conference as far in advance as possible. Make sure you do necessary coordination with your company’s IT department for any support you may need in order for your conference to be a success. If your dealing with an overseas location early preparation and coordination is vital to your success. Attend all test sessions to make sure that your video link is clearly working properly. Use this time to also familiarize yourself with equipment that will be used during session. Hand any and all materials for transmission to video conferencing site technician at least two days in advance so that he/she can get familiar with it. For optimum readability, use large and clear fonts. Use a wide margin, as sides will be slightly cut off on screen. Keep to landscape format, with simple pictures and few words.
| | Offshore investing - Leveraging overseas tradingWritten by Jakob Jelling
In today’s climate of a falling dollar and emerging economies all over world, offshore investing can be an attractive option. Before looking at investing overseas, however, you should understand your financial goals, potential pitfalls of overseas investing, and how best to leverage your investments.First, you have to understand your own financial goals. It can be tricky when you’re ready to divest yourself to pull your money out of a foreign fund; therefore, offshore investing should be done primarily with money earmarked for a long-term goal, such as retirement or college for your infant daughter. Short-term investing should remain domestic, where you can access your money relatively quickly. Next, you’ll need to determine where you want to get into offshore investing. No matter how tempting economy, it’s a bad idea to invest in a company in a country that doesn’t like your country of origin. Your funds can be frozen or even seized by a foreign government, winding up with you losing everything. And there’s no way to insure against this. You should understand political situation in your chosen country. A country prone to coups is not a good risk; a country that’s held in high esteem by World Bank is probably a good investment property. No matter how tempting profits that can be made, you should never invest in a country that violates your country’s laws (for instance, if you’re American, you shouldn’t invest in a country on American terrorism supporting countries list.) You could find yourself in serious criminal trouble for financing terrorism or some other heinous crime against your own country. And if you invest in a country that subsequently goes to war, suffers a coup, or undergoes some major problem, you could lose everything.
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