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Many companies today hold meetings to discuss their new plans. As people are paying more attention to the environment problems, more companies are looking for ways to reduce their bad influence on the environment. Many of them achieve this by using a web meeting.
It's an easy way of hosting and attending a meeting. Participants (与会者) don't have to leave the office. Each of them will receive an invitation with the meeting time and date on it. When the meeting is ready to begin, they must sit before their computers.
With a web meeting, all participants can attend the meeting at their own desks. As a result, no fuel (燃料) is used and less time is taken up in attending a web meeting.
Materials for the meeting are e-mailed to all the participants before it begins. For the company, this not only saves the use of paper but also greatly reduces the mailing cost.
As a meeting hall is not used, the only power for a web meeting is the power that is used by the computers. Besides, organisers don't have to pay for food and accommodation (住宿) for the participants. .
In a word, a web meeting is a cheaper, greener, and more friendly way of hosting and attending a meeting. So they can more easily find their working partners who have the same green ideas. In return, they develop good relationship with other companies and improve their business.
A. The web meeting is a technology that allows people to communicate better over the Internet.
B. All these mean that less energy is used.
C. Then participants can just read them on the screen.
D. Companies that hold web meetings are willing to work hard for a better environment.
E. They can be printed (打印) by the receivers.
F. They don't need to drive a car to travel to and from the meeting.
G. Web meetings are quite popular now.