Web-Conferencing Could have saved money!!!!

One of these days I will be high enough on the totem pole for some of my ideas to be heard. Our entire staff was going to go on an extended vacation over Christmas break. We were supposed to get from the 18th of December to January 3rd off until it was decided that we needed to have a meeting on the 28th & 29th of December, this meeting of course cut right through the heart of our vacation. This will be a very costly meeting due to the fact that people live away from Syracuse and were planning on going back home for vacation. They now will be buying two round trip plane tickets as opposed to the one that they could have gotten by with originally. Once I heard of the idea to have this meeting I immediately spoke up about the idea of having a web-conference. All of the staff members are provided with a laptop computer that is compatible with all of the necessary programs and all individuals would have no problems getting to a place with an internet connection. I thought that it would be a good idea to have a staff web-conference where all of the necessary documents could be shared and important issues discussed. Unfortunately the higher powers thought that it would be too difficult for some of the older staff members to use. Unfortunately I was fighting a losing battle. I will definitely look into the idea of using web-conferencing as I move up the rungs of the staff ladder.