Making calls and working online
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Broadband's ability to split your telephone line between voice and data let you use both your phone and PC simultaneously. This obviously saves time, but you can also exploit simultaneous document sharing, allowing you and several others on a phone conference call to see the same document and edit it while discussing its contents.
There are many different solutions for document sharing. Here are a few that are useful for small businesses:
With broadband, a home worker can quickly send a file to the internal network while joining a conference call to discuss any changes. This can come as part of a package which also include project, catalogue and customer data management solutions
If your business doesn't specialise in hosting or posting documents online then you can use Web services to share, view, edit and version-control all manner of documents. A popular service which reviews Web-based products is found at
http://www.web-based-software.com
If you have a business interest you may also want to share documents with like-minded Web users who aren't part of your establishment. In this case, a groupware service such as Smartgroups - www.smartgroups.com - will allow you to share files, related email messages and even vote on decisions.
Cost saving: If you are using Web-based solutions some may even be advertisement-supported, and free to use.
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