electronic meeting

electronic meeting

(messaging, conferencing, meeting)/e'lek-tro'nik mee'ting/The use of a network of personal computers to improvecommunication that takes place in a meeting. The computersare used for typically 30-50% of the meeting. They do noteliminate conversation, discussion, or humour from themeeting.

Electronic meetings are effective with as few as twoparticipants and with over 100 participants. Participants canbe face-to-face in a meeting room or distributed around theworld. They may all be participating at the same time ordifferent times.

Getting Results from Electronic Meetings.