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PO Box 261
Shelter Island, NY 11964

RESOURCES

• Index
• Preface
• Table of Contents

DESCRIPTION

The first book on the most powerful communication tool since the development of the personal computer, Personal Videoconferencing will help you streamline your business and gain a competitive edge. It summarizes the experience of more than seventy companies in many industries in the use of desktop and laptop videoconferencing to collaborate on documents and applications while communicating through video, face-to-face. Anyone who shares information with others will benefit from reading this book.

What's inside:

• Project management
• Product development, manufacturing, telemaintenance
• Recruitment, training, distance learning
• Legal, real estate, telemedicine, banking
• Telecommuting, consulting
• Help desk, retail video kiosks
• and more

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...

"Personal Videoconferencing is having an enormous impact on business. Evan Rosen has quantified that impact with examples of real world implementations and provided a primer on how businesses can achieve this competitive advantage for themselves."
--Frank Gill, Executive Vice President, Internet and Communications Group, Intel

"The book is very good: it is clear and the examples of user applications are excellent"
--Ralph Ungermann, CEO, First Virtual Corporation

WHAT THE READERS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...

"I enjoyed your book Personal Videoconferencing, which is full of useful information and sources -- it's a wonderful reference book."
--Ting Liu, Manager, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Ford Motor Co.

"An entertainingly written, thorough, up-to-date overview of desktop videoconferencing. It names names: vendors, specifications, capabilities. Highly recommended as a primer and resource."
--Telemedicine Today

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Personal Videoconferencing... I carry it around like a college book; highlighting, folding pages, taking notes and contacting references."
--Dominic Costantino, Director of Sales, Xirlink, Inc

"The writing and selected coverage of topics is excellent. I think Personal Videoconferencing will make a significant contribution to the teleconferencing industry and greatly add to people's understanding of an increasingly important info hiway technology."
--Stephen P. Shao, Jr., Director, "Project DIANE", Tennessee State University

ABOUT THE AUTHOR...

Evan Rosen is a principal with Impact Video Communication, a consulting and training firm. A frequent speaker on videoconferencing, he is also an accomplished business and technology journalist.

Sample Chapters

Two sample chapters are available for download.