Good communication can be difficult, especially over long distances. This is why we still get on airplanes and travel to meet face to face. Videoconferencing saves the travel costs, and it still gives us the face to face connection. But here’s the key: the videoconference environment itself is critical to ensuring communication success. Human ability (your eyes and ears) are much more forgiving than technology (cameras and microphones). For example, bad room lighting can automatically be mitigated by a change to your eye’s iris, but video cameras will capture an unusable or poor image.  Another example is room noise which can be filtered out by the brain but will be picked up by the microphone and ultimately decrease intelligibility.  So here is a list of common “weakest links” for corporate videoconferencing: (more)