Comments on: How to Hold Impromptu Conversations on Virtual Teams

By: Jodi Gaines

Jodi Gaines — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:57:12 +0000

Another case of not closing the tag. Sorry. Wish I could preview my posts before pushing the button.

By: Jodi Gaines

Jodi Gaines — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:55:44 +0000

Our office IFModules and iguanafarmGroup always used Yahoo! IM, but have since switched to Skype (chalk up another vote). We love it, and it is so easy to switch back and forth. We have people in Seattle, Florida, and Costa Rica, so this is one product we cannot do without - or perhaps we can try the robot. :-)

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Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:41:25 +0000

[...] Web Worker Daily: Blog Archive How to Hold Impromptu Conversations on Virtual Teams “How do you replace the short face-to-face conversations that team members in an office have on a regular basis if you’re working remotely from your colleagues?[…] When the team’s scattered around the globe with just the Internet to connect them, it’s harder to get together for ad hoc consultations.” [...]

By: Geoffrey Smith

Geoffrey Smith — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:42:21 +0000

oops I blew the tags back there the site links to http://www.highspeedconferencing.com

By: Geoffrey Smith

Geoffrey Smith — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:41:08 +0000

Skype offers or is in bed with which allows you to setup skype/mobile/landline phone conferences. I have uysed it several times and it works well with quite good quality (not all my people are techy enough to handle skpe, this is Europe you know old chap!)

By: Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:49:05 +0000

I second the use of Skype for impromptu virtual meetings. The chat to phone segue is simple, and bringing in multiple parties for conference is a piece of the cake. If only Skype could get conference bridge lines to recognize its number tones! If you try and “dial your conference code” or something of the sort using Skype’s dial pad (or typing it in), I would estimate a 60% failure rate, which is awful. This has screwed me on a few occassions when trying to conference from foreign countries with non-Skype folk in the US. I’d love to hear of any patches or work arounds for that weakness.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:46:02 +0000

The giraffe robot if frigin’ freaky ! Reminds me of Will Robinson from Lost In Space (I watched it as reruns thank you very much !).
I once spent 3+ yrs working in a new business unit of a huge multi-national that attempted to use VTCs nearly all the time to link our West and East coast sites – most of the time, even after 3 yrs, we’d spend 15min at the start of every mtg trying to get everything going, even though we had dedicated VTC equipment. The point: whatever it is, it’s got to be easy to use and reliable…

By: John Watson

John Watson — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:59:10 +0000

You’re describing Skype. We use Skype a lot in this way. Someone will IM with “Got 5 minutes for X?” and then we start a voice call. The latest Skype has plugins for app sharing and white boarding, too.