Online Communication Simple Benefits in

Tool Site/App/Software Communication Disadvantages

1. VIDEO ●Zoom Meetings ●Saves time and ●A meeting or an
CONFERENCING ●Google Meet money interview via video
●Intermedia ●Brings remote conferencing can
AnyMeeting workers and sometimes lead to
●Microsoft Teams telecommuters wrong decisions and
●Webex together selections, as many a
●Skype ●Increased efficiency time it becomes
●GoToMeeting and productivity difficult to access the
●ezTalks Meeting ●Improves societal gestures and
●StarLeaf relationships personality of a person
●FreeConference ●Improves through this virtual
●Jitsi Communication medium.
●Slack ●It helps more to ●Technical Issues
●BlueJeans connect teams ●Some meetings
●Provides more require a personal
structured meetings touch to be successful.
●Provides sustained Video conferencing can
competitive advantage be less personal than
●It helps teams to meeting face to face,
maintain human and it can be possible
connections, to miss out on vital
irrespective of physical body language when
location, which speeds you’re struggling with a
up decision making and pixelated image or
improves your ability stuttering video.
to collaborate globally.  ●High Cost of Set-up
●More collaborative ●More stress and less
meeting culture in your of organization
organization, it’s a ●From a compliance
foundation for enabling perspective,
today’s digital organizations worry
workforce. that due to the
different state
laws, recording some
meetings may be
illegal without all
attendees' approval. To
address that, Microsoft
Teams and Zoom offer
audible
announcements to
confirm the meeting is
being recorded. 
2. CHATS ●WhatsApp ●You can find it less ●Without facial
●Facebook Messenger expensive to chat over expressions and
●Line the Internet than to gestures or the ability
●WeChat make a long distance to retract immediately,
●Snapchat call. there’s a big risk of
●Google Hangouts ●You can complete misunderstanding.
●Viber other tasks while ●A large volume of
●Telegram chatting over the messages can be
 ●KakaoTalk Internet. For example, overwhelming and
●Bands you can read and reply hard to follow, even
●Discord to emails, finish typing stress-inducing.
●Signal Private a document, or have a ●It takes longer than
Messenger conversation with verbal conversation
●Skype someone who is in the and so it’s hard to reply
●Signal room.  to all the points in a
●Slack ●Solves different message, easily leaving
●GroupMe problems in just a questions unanswered.
●Voxer minute ●If you chat with
●Wire ●Removes language strangers over the
●Wickr Me barriers Internet, you can open
●Threema ●Quick connections yourself to predators.
●Offers a secure People can lie about
environment who they are in an
●Prevents channel effort to hurt you in
disruption some way. 
●Your conversations
can also be saved,
which can come back
to haunt you if
someone has bad
intentions. 
 According to the
United States
Computer Emergency
Readiness Team, you
should be careful about
what you reveal unless
you are certain of who
the person on the
other end of the chat
is. 

3. FORUMS ●phpBB ●Quick feedbacks. ●Without facial

●MyBB ●Q&A Forum helps expressions and
●WordPress reduce your support gestures or the ability
●Joomla! team’s burden by to retract immediately,
●Drupal providing a way for there’s a big risk of
●Vanilla Forums users to help each misunderstanding.
●Simple Machines other and by creating a ●A large volume of
Forum knowledge-base. messages can be
●FluxBB ●Great for building overwhelming and
●Codoforum trust with public hard to follow, even
●Discourse discussions and social stress-inducing.
●Flarum proof. ●Participants may
●Wix Forum ●A big benefit is to accidentally go off-
●vBulletin bring together what topic within a
●XenForo may be disorganized particular discussion
●Invision Community and scattered thread. The logical
●inSided information and then sequence of discussion
●IP Board allow discussion and is often broken by
●PlushForums search on it as well. users not sticking to
 ●bbPRess ●Provides a direct line the topic.
●miniBB and a direct point in ●It takes longer than
audiences. verbal conversation
●It increases and so it’s hard to reply
conversational rate. to all the points in a
●Builds loyalty and message, easily leaving
confidence. questions unanswered.
●Helps to connect ●Some people prefer
people more with the to absorb information
help of asking on their own and don’t
questions and give participate in the
feedbacks discussions.
immediately. Participants used to
having a teacher or
instructor telling them
what to do can find an
online forum to be a
leaderless
environment, and
that’s where tutors
come in.

4. VOICE OVER IP ●Nextiva ●It lets you save on a ●The main

●Aircall long-distance and disadvantage of VoIP
●Zoiper international phone compared to
●Skype calls. traditional lines is that
●WhatsApp ●It helps to connect it is totally dependent
●Google Voice multiple locations and on the strength of your
●Talkatone distributed workforce. broadband connection.
●Nimbuzz Messenger ●It enhances flexibility No internet equals no
●WeTalk when it comes to VoIP phone service. It
●Whistle Phone communicating. does not end there
●Dialpad ●VoIP integrates easily either. Poor internet
●CloudTalk App with other systems and connection can also
●Ooma Office helps staff collaborate affect call quality and
●Freshcaller through voice, video, lead to problems like
●Grasshopper web conferencing or jitter and latency.
●Line 2 instant messaging, ●One of the
●NetFortris usually from a single major advantages of
●Mitel user interface. VoIP service is the
●Zoom Phone ●Staff can use your ability to make calls
●Facebook Messenger communication system anytime, anywhere as
●MagicApp remotely and flexibly, long as you have a
●MizuDroid with access to your decent internet
●Grandstream Wave data and network connection. Such
●Discord whenever and accessibility is valuable
●MicroSIP wherever they need it. when you’re on the go,
●TeamSpeak Therefore it improves at a client site or
●Twinkle productivity. traveling for business. 
●Because VoIP uses Using VoIP services,
your internet especially on
connection, it offers smartphones, can
 higher call quality consume a lot of
when compared to internet bandwidth.
alternatives. A VoIP This is problematic for
telephone system individuals or
offers its users HD businesses without
voice using internet unlimited data plans.
connectivity, with ●When accessing VoIP
incredible clarity and services, phones and
crisp audio. VoIP-compatible
●VoIP telephone devices need a
systems are very sustained power
reliable. VoIP has been source. Transmitting
developed over many quality audio and HD
years, with applications videos on mobile
such as Skype consumes a lot of
& FaceTime leading the power. Businesses
innovation. VoIP has should see to it that
been adopted by many their mobile devices
businesses across the have enough battery
world and is constantly life at all times.
advancing - making it
one of the most
reliable telephony
technologies.
●An advantage to VoIP
is its scalability.
Because VoIP
telephone systems use
the internet for calls,
adding new users is
easy. 
●It enables businesses
to be as mobile and as
portable as possible. By
using a VoIP network -
you can enable mobile
users, as well as desk-
based users to connect
to your telephone
system.
5. EMAIL ●AirMail ●Email is a free tool. ●Email can cause
●Edison Mail Once you are online, misunderstandings.
●mail.ru there is no further Because email does not
●Microsoft Outlook expense that you need include nonverbal
●eM Client to spend on in order to communication,
●Front send and receive recipients may
●Zoho Mail messages. misinterpret the
●ProtonMail ●Email is quick. Once sender’s message. This
●MDaemon Email you have finished is particularly true of
Server composing a message, senders fail to go
●Mailbird sending it is as simple through their messages
●MailMate as clicking a button. before they send them.
●polyMail ●Email allows for easy ●Email could
●The Bat! referencing. Messages potentially
●Microsoft Outlook that have been sent cause information
●Windows Mail and received can overload. Some
●Thunderbird stored, and searched messages may be
●Gmail (Google) through safely and dismissed or left
●Yahoo!Mail easily. unread, especially if
●iCloud Mail ●Email is accessible there are a lot coming
●Yandex Mail from anywhere, as long in and the network has
●AOL as you have an internet not integrated some
●Spike connection. Whether sort of email alert
●Apple Mail or not you are in the system into the
●Office Suite office or on the field, or computers at work.
even overseas, you can ●Email lacks a personal
access your inbox and touch. While some
go through your things are better off
messages. sent as written and
●Email allows for mass typed messages, some
sending of messages. things should be
An effective medium to verbally relayed or
utilize to get your written by hand in a
message out there, you note or letter.
can send one particular ●Email can be
message to several disruptive. Going
recipients all at once. through each email can
●Email allows for be disruptive to work
instant access of as it does require a bit
information and files. of time. This disruption
You can opt to send is decreased through
yourself files and keep the utilization of an
messages so that you email alert system.
have a paper trail of Email should be kept
conversations and short and brief. This is
interactions you have especially difficult if
online just in case you you are one to send
may need them in the messages that are too
future. long.
●Email requires timely
responses. While some
people tend to
disregard messages,
those that require
responses should be
replied to as soon as
they are received and
read. 
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1. The study of social meaning of material placement of signs. GEOSEMIOTICS

3. Described as being post-television that has recorded videos. YOUTUBE

6. Types of signs’ discourse produced by individual or group and are not officially recognized. BOTTOM UP

8. Modes of Communication that focuses on body language and hand gestures. GESTURAL

10. Where meaning of text that is communicated through combinations of two or more modes. MULTIMODAL

13. A person who actively uses the Internet in an online world. NETIZEN

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2. Mode of the communication that is all about the written and spoken languages. LINGUISTIC
4. Mode of communication that is all about the tone and sound effects of spoken languages. AURAL
5. It expresses a symbolic meaning and messages. SIGNS
7. Types of graffiti that violates the conventional semiotics or in the wrong place signs. TRANSGRESSIVE
9. Mode of communication that focuses on perspective and proximity of lay outing, style and sizes of objects or people.
SPATIAL
11. A virtual landscape used for keeping up the developments in work and career, following celebrities or interacting
with friends. TWITTER
12. A term given to any posts, language or photo that is naturally comic in nature. MEMES
14. Types of signs’ discourse produced that is official. TOP-DOWN
15. A picture or image that shows particular whole area or appearance. LANDSCAPES