Skype Alternatives for Business Video Conference

Working from home now becomes a trend for the unexpected outbreak of coronavirus. In order to keep companies running regularly, many employers appealed for working from home. But how to maintain the daily communications among employees and different project teams? The way is to hold online meetings through some reliable software and platforms.

Skype has developed a business mode for companies to maintain business communications remotely. People can initiate video calls, voice calls, or sending text to communicate with each other and deal with all kinds of works even they are not in the offices. With the help of these tools, people can work more flexibly.

In addition to Skype, there are also many reliable and helpful software for business video conference and other communication matters. If you are a leader of a company or a team, and is going to have your employees and members work from home, choose Skype or Skype alternatives that I would introduce below to have a business video conference at home!

Part 1. 5 Best Skype Alternatives for Video Chatting, Meeting

#5. Talky
Instead of downloading a software, do you want to simply have the meeting online in browser? Talky offers amazing online meeting tool, which allows everybody to connect with colleagues or friends using a browser in the easiest way. Instead of signing up for an account, you only need to use a URL for having or attending the meeting. But Talky is only suitable for meetings that are in 6 people or lower. Therefore, if you want to hold a larger conference, Talky can not meet your need.

Part 2. [Tips] Best Solution to Record Video Conferences for Windows/Mac

The spread of coronavirus also rises the trend of working from home, that's also why so many companies are using all kinds of software to hold a meeting online, in order to keep maintaining their businesses. Although having an online meeting breaks the limitations of space and time, it still have some disadvantages. For example, it would be much easier to miss some important points raised by others. So how can we keep a copy of the online meeting to review for once or more times later?

As a reference, many people are using the screen recorder to record video conferences on computer, so that the online meeting can be saved as a video file! And the best solution that many people choose to record online meeting is to use RecordAnyVid, a simple-designed but powerful screen recorder that is compatible with recording the online meetings held on different platforms, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Google GotoMeetings, and more software that provide online meeting function.

But why RecordAnyVid wins so much trust and is widely selected by so many users? One's success won't be successful without reasons. RecordAnyVid now stands in the top place among so many screen recorders, which contributes to its sparkling features described in the following:

• RecordAnyVid can record any screen activity and save the recordings in WMV, MP4, MOV, F4V offline;
• Fully customize the recording settings from how the recording alike to its parameters settings;
• Highlight the online meeting using the drawing panel provided;
• Webcam mode is available for recording your face during the meeting as well;
• Different recording modes are supported, including audio-only recording mode, video-only recording mode and video recording with audio;
• Users can set hotkeys to use RecordAnyVid only by pressing certain keys on the keyboard.

STEP 3. Start Recording Online Meeting
When the recording settings are done, back to the interface of Video Recorder and click on the REC button to record the business meeting now. During the meeting, you can use some drawing tools provided by RecordAnyVid's drawing panel to add some important points to the recording.

STEP 4. Save Online Meeting Recording on Computer
After the meeting ended, you can use the hotkey you set or click on the red stop button to finish recording the online meeting. Then RecordAnyVid will lead you to the previewing window, where you can check the online meeting you have recorded, and save it to your computer right away by hitting the Save button.

That's all! The best Skype alternatives and also the simplest way to record online meetings are all introduced to you. Just make your time during this work-from-home period to be more efficient and productive!