The document discusses several virtual communication tools that can facilitate collaboration for virtual teams: Google Hangouts, ezTalks Cloud Meeting, Slack, WebEx Meeting Center, and Dropbox. It provides details on the key features and benefits of each tool, highlighting their abilities to enable video/audio calling, file sharing, messaging/notifications, and real-time collaboration between remote team members.

1. By,
Ananya . M
Manasa . S
Apoorva Lakshman

2. Virtual Communication is implemented in many applications
to facilitate communications between virtual teams in
organizations as well as easy long distance communication.
Virtual Communication tools :
 Google Hangouts
 ezTalks Cloud Meeting
 Slack
 WebEx Meeting Center
 Dropbox

3. This virtual team communication tool offers services of video
calling which is like Skype video conference call. Unlike
Skype, Hangouts does not charge anything for Google video
calls for groups. There are also some few apps that are
incorporated which makes it possible for members to watch
videos on YouTube, work on a document (Google) or make
drawings with Cacao together. Team members can also share
documents by combining Google Hangouts together with
Google Drive.
Hangouts while live allows team members to concurrently
watch a channel on YouTube to create an archive of the
members' Hangouts. Though, do not forget to privatize the
videos if it’s not a problem to share the meetings with team
members.

4. This is without a doubt one of the best collaboration tools for virtual teams. It does almost the
impossible by assisting members to connect from everywhere around the world. It gives plans
and services that are very useful to meet the requirements of virtual teams. The virtual team
can choose a plan that will serve their needs perfectly.
 Features:
• Support up to 100 members to collaborate during the same time without any charges for forty
minutes.
• Empowers five hundred members to collaborate concurrently with no time limit.
• Combine audio conferencing and video conferencing (HD) and also web conferencing.
• Supports remote control, reporting and user management.
ezTalks Cloud Meeting is among the most popular virtual team collaboration tools. Its services are
not charged for the starter plan. Your virtual team can connect with up to 100 members at a
time and also gets services that are uninterruptedly resulting in the capability of being more
productive.

5.  This is a brilliant virtual team collaboration tools for a virtual
team that are willing to keep in touch all the time. It can
increase the productivity of the team by setting notifications
and making channels (slack). With it, teams will achieve a
better and comprehensive of the whole tasks or projects.
 Features:
• Set up notifications and reminders.
• A virtual team can chat and communicate.
• It can incorporate with Dropbox and Google Drive to the
relocation of files.
• Considering it contains chatting features, it also comes with
shortcuts which assist increase your team`s productivity.

6.  This ensures the virtual team is productive as well as collaborative at
anytime and anyplace using any gadget or video system with WebEx.
This virtual team tool assists your virtual team with corporate video,
fast decision making, sharing of content and videos, and it also saves
money and time.
 Features:
• Simple to connect with any other video system.
• Make faster the processes of your business and enhance
productivity.
• Collaborate in one conference video and audio.
• Share screen, apps and also documents.
• Allow you to gather flow of work which is the best for the
members.

7.  Sharing and exchange of files is something that is popular in
most businesses which is accompanied by quite a number of
obstacles, like cashing of hard drives and other technical
reasons. Dropbox, Inc comes with a solution to these problems.
A file holding service that is cloud-based has been created.
 This enables your virtual team to create special folders on a
number of computers and sync them with the Dropbox service
(online). Members only require reliable Internet and install the
app. Members can also share files with other people by just
handing them a special link which makes business easier.