What is online conferencing? Advantages.

Traditional conferences mean participants have to travel and stay in a particular place. This takes time and is expensive. But an online conference uses the Internet as a conference venue. Anyone with access to the Internet can participate.

We're not saying an online conference is invariably better than a normal, face to face conference (though it can be!), but it is different, and has lots of advantages:

• cheaper - because there is no travel, and no accommodation is required;
• more convenient - you can access it at any time you want, from anywhere with an Internet connection;
• high level of participation - typically, more people will actively participate in an online conference than in a face to face conference, and the standard of the discussions is often higher;
• and there is a permanent record of proceedings.