"How to cure the common conference call"... Chat!

gigaom/WebWorkerDaily - How to cure the common conference call

"Viewed as a necessary evil by managers, conference calls are often loathed by employees. Take ZDNet’s Jason Perlow, who recently penned a long post entitled “The Conference Call: Scourge of IT,” for example. In it, Perlow decries how much time he, as a web worker, spends on conference calls:

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Hum... Using chat to help make a conference call streamlined, productive and a good use of time, instead of using it to make fun of people and what they are saying? I'll have to think about that... :P