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Web Conferencing On The Go: Rent An Office

Posted by Ken Molay February 6 2008 10:16 AM EDT

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Have you ever found yourself scheduled to present on a web conference only to find that you have to be out of town at the appointed time? Sure, you can sit on a park bench, find a wireless connection, and call in on your cell phone. Of course that's a recipe for disaster. Your wireless signals will drop, your audio quality will be atrocious, you will be constrained from speaking loudly and clearly, and your audience will be playing "Guess The Background Noise."

Why not get yourself into a quiet private room, dial in on a landline and a fast wired Internet connection, and give yourself and your audience a more comfortable, professional experience instead?

For a number of years, I have seen pay-by-the-minute rental offices in certain airports. But today I saw a press release for a company called Officescape. They provide rental offices in cities across the US, Canada, China, and Costa Rica (seems like a strange collection of countries to me, but it's not my company!). If you find yourself on the road and you can't get back to your hotel room, you can use one of their office locations with the connections and the privacy you need.

There may be other providers of similar services... I'm just not familiar with them. But I can think of times when the availability of a local closed-door office would have made me a lot more comfortable on my travels.