Welcome to Manager Tools, one of our Hall of Fame casts Effective Teleconferencing Part 1.

Welcome to the Manager Tools Podcast for Monday, July 9, 2007.

Effective Teleconferencing, part one of two. We've been asked many times for this cast and intended to deliver much earlier, but it kept

getting pushed back for, well, lots of reasons.

Teleconferences or meetings conducted as conference calls are much more widely used today than 20 years ago.

Cost used to be an issue, but with cost mood, those very same savings have

the conference's ubiquity.

For instance, using mute while you have the speaker on.

This is tantamount to encouraging Blackberry use in a face-to-face meeting and laptops fully deployed in an email send receive mode.

What a waste.

Somehow, because the cost of the call is free, we lose sight of the value of our time.

Get ready for a distinctly unique set of recommendations.

Before we go on with the rest of the show, though, I did want to make a couple of announcements.

One is, we, thanks to a lot of you listening have sold out the September

Manard Tools Effective Manager Conference. So all of you that have signed up, Mark

and I look forward to meeting you there and looking forward to a great

great conference. If you'd like to be put on the wait list just go ahead and

send us an email at show at manager dash tools.com and we'll let you know should a

slot become open.

Also, second point before go on,

wanted to send a shout out to Bill and Rich.

Bill and Rich will know why,

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