Getting people together from different locations for a conference call doesn't have to be a painstaking process. You can use a conference call bridge to allow several individuals across multiple conference sites to share information and video in real time.

Roosevelt University's free conference call bridge provides toll-free telephone numbers that up to eight callers can conference into. Up to two separate 8-caller conference calls can be scheduled at the same time.

Conference calling is a poorly implemented feature on most telephone systems. "Meet Me" conferencing systems and services make this much easier to do.

A conference call bridge is an electronic routing device that allows the person leading the teleseminar to reach 25, 50 or 100 people and some conference call providers like TelephoneBridgeServices even offer bridges that can accommodate 1,000 people. In addition, the conference call providers offer multiple features that enhance the call's productivity.

Conference calls are nothing new - indeed, even as late as the 1980s, many rural locations had shared phone lines because the phone companies couldn't run switching equipment far enough. Since the 1930s, with the telephone circuit switch perfected at Bell Labs, doing audio conference calls through the Bell System has been an option for businesses.