the telecon number and giving a passcode the invention would move the tasks of dialing into a voip telecon away from each user and have the system call out to participants instead of each voip telecon participant manually dialing into the telecon the system would use individual profiles of participants from one or more central directories or databases to determine or confirm the connection number of each participant and initiate a call to each participant in an exemplary implementation when the system first initiates the telecon call out procedure a popup would appear listing the names of each of the invited participants in a u2018 gray out u2019 format as participants answered the call their popup entry would changed from grayed to black or some other configurable color for a quick indication of their connected status the status of those who have not answered still grayed out would be available in more detail by right clicking over the invitee 39 s name doing so would present more detailed information concerning the called participant 39 s status the system can be configured to continue attempting to connect for example retries can be configured to repeat continuously until the meeting is scheduled to end retry 5 more or less times retry every 6 minutes for 3 additional attempts etc participants that could not respond at their profiled number could still call in themselves using conventional.