Public sector organisations have a clear mandate to save money, drive business efficiency and engage more with citizens. The best way to do both is to unify your communication channels into a single, easy to use interface.

Have you been affected by the work at Waterloo station? Were you able to work from home or did you still have to go to the office and just find an alternative route? If you worked from home how was it for you?

On my travels around the public sector, much of my day is spent introducing my customers to the latest in conferencing and collaboration technology and how this makes them more effective and efficient in the way they work.

In my last blog, I talked about how Webex Meetings gives an alternative to face to face meetings for people working from home during the Waterloo station upgrade.

Waterloo station is undergoing a huge upgrade during the month of August. It has been widely reported that there are an average of 270,000 journeys made to and from Waterloo every day and passengers have been advised to find an alternative route or work from home.

If you’re like most of the public sector organisations we see, you probably have a mandate to reduce costs in your organisation. The message might not be quite so obverted as “save money”. Instead you might have initiatives using adjectives such as rationalise, and reduce in front of infrastructure and office space.

Webinars are ideal for delivering lectures, cascading information and briefing large and smaller groups of people.

The government’s latest version of the Digital Marketplace (G Cloud 9) – the online framework where public sector organisations can find approved cloud technology providers – is now live.

The term “webinar” is banded about like confetti at a wedding. In fact, the definition of a “webinar” is pretty straightforward. A webinar is a “virtual event” and uses the internet allowing you to effectively deliver messages and interact with your audience.

The technology is there, it’s just not being used. As the person responsible for MeetingZone’s audio conferencing and virtual event services, I spend a lot of my time looking at the many ways companies and their employees manage their meetings.