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Web Conferencing Helps Reduce Corporate Carbon Footprint, While Boosting the Bottom-Line
Going Green Means Seeing Green
| Quelle: Glance Networks
ARLINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - May 13, 2008) - Companies can boost business success while
significantly reducing the harm they cause the environment by using web
conferencing solutions, such as Glance (www.glance.net). Web conferencing
allows the meetings, sales
demos,
training, or
presentations that businesses normally conduct in person, to be done
remotely via the Web.
By eliminating the need for business travel without sacrificing the quality
of communication, businesses can significantly reduce their carbon
footprint, while tapping into additional business perks. Less travel and
more collaboration also reduces costs, increases productivity and expands a
company's global reach.
Web conferencing and screen sharing enable people to share information in a
fast, easy, affordable and environmentally friendly way. One service,
available at www.glance.net, provides an online screen
sharing tool that allows businesses to conduct web demos, sales
presentations, and collaborate on projects without leaving the office.
Glance offers one of the few cross-platform screen sharing tools on the
market, allowing subscribers to host or join online meetings from PCs or
Macs, with up to 100 guests at a time. Businesses can try out Glance for
free by visiting http://glance.net.
"Last month, Glance customers held almost 50,000 meetings over the
Internet, instead of traveling, equating to carbon emissions savings of
tens of thousands of metric tons," said Rich Baker, CEO of Glance Networks.
Kelly Brandon, founder of Kelly Brandon Design, moved his office to his
home, eliminating his two hour round-trip commute. "As an architect and
graphic designer for over 40 years, I've found that Glance's screen sharing
tool makes client communication that much more effective," said Brandon. "I
like to work closely with my clients while preparing progress drawings and
Glance eliminates the need for meetings, saves time, is simple to use, and
is carbon friendly."
Glance employees have taken the environment to heart as well -- they are
doing their part by either walking or biking to the office, which is a
recycled old mill building.
Businesses can calculate their own carbon footprint by using carbon
calculators such as this one found at
CarbonFund.org.