Do you use Skype?
When Skype first emerged many predicted the demise of crusty old telecommunications giants, and like most the breathless hyperbole around the web things have turned out a little differently than forecast. After initial forays into Skype my useage dropped back quite substantially because the people I wanted to connect with simply were not getting on-board. Given that I was doing a bit of work in Indonesia I’d have thought everyone would rush to Skype as a means to save substantial sums of money.
The barrier, as always, was the pipes.
Skype can be both the best ad worst of online communications – on a good connection day it is fantastic, being able to video chat with my wife daily made the longer overseas trips more bearable. On a bad connection day it is the sort of frustrating experience that has you wanting to throw your laptop through a window. Early on the quality of connection was just too unstable for many people to want to wholeheartedly embrace it.
Now that we have moved out of Melbourne I find that I have come back to Skype, and indeed iChat (I abandoned iChat a couple of years ago for Skype when the video chat simply never ever worked, things have changed in the interim). I have even put my skype ID (pabamedia) onto my business cards which for some would seem mundane but for a number of my clients is quite a novel idea – what’s even more novel is that they are slowly coming to the use of Skype.
If you have dabbled with Skype in the past have another look, if you’ve loaded into onto your computer but never really touched it open it up and get your organisation using it. In a time where we’re being told that the economic sky is falling Skype and iChat can now provide a reliable, easy, video chat and conferencing facility which beats the hell out of email and plain old voice calls.
This link takes you to a bunch of Skype propaganda videos showing how Rip Curl and others utilise Skype – it might give you some ideas.
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
