Teleconferencing: Some Confusion

Teleconferencing has been around for a long time, but with travel costs growing and telecommunications costs shrinking, it's becoming even more common. The problem with teleconferencing is that if it involves more than two or three people, it's easy to get confused about who's speaking at any one point. This is especially true if you're the outsider calling in while everyone else knows one another and is in the same room. Unless the speakers identify themselves each time they speak, you end up hearing multiple voices without knowing who said what. This is even the case if you're being videoconferenced into the meeting. Unless everyone is on a separate camera, it can still be unclear who's saying what. So one of the solutions to this problem is to pull up the LinkedIn profile of each of the speakers and go through them. When people are introducing themselves in the teleconference, look at the picture and it will make it easier to know who is talking. Make such to also take notes.