What is electronic meeting system (EMS)? Describe its capabilities.
...rge, 1991, pp: 40-61). This type of software is also capable of maintaining a poll, which is either an election or a survey of a particular group or a voting, which is a method of decision making wherein a group attempts to gauge its opinion- usually as a final step following discussions or debate, system, in which participants can vote on the best options. One very important factor of EMS software is its ability to allow participants to be anonymous. Anonymity is the state of not being identifiable within a set, called the "anonymity set. This helps to avoid a lot of interpersonal issues. Human emotive factors such as embarrassment, reluctance to change a viewpoint are discarded with this. Also, decision-making can be aided by allowing ideas that are generated during the session to be taken on their own merits rather than their authorship. EMS software keeps minutes of meetings that can be printed out and distributed among participants or saved to disk Nunamaker, Briggs, Mittleman, Vogel, & Balthazard, 1997, p: 163). EMS systems nowadays have the ability teleconferencing, dataconferencing, and videoconferencing capabilities. Teleconferencing allows a group of people to confer simultaneously via telephone or via e-mail group communications software (Lauden, 2004, p: 265). Teleconferencing that includes the ability of two or more people at distant locations to work on the same document or data simultaneously is called data conferencing (Lauden, 2004, p: 265). Teleconferencing in which participants see each other over video screens is termed video teleconferencing or videoconferencing (Lauden, 2004, p: 265). The advantages of such syst...