Mousan giving us a virtual tour via Skype
We had a Japanese presenter come in from Tokyo and talk about lesser known places to visit at the last meetup. It was rather last minute, I was talking to Mousan on Skype just before the meetup and I suggested she stay on and do the first presentation via Skype. A good sport that she is, she readily agreed. She gave us a virtual tour of the places. We should do this more often in future travel meets.
Some notes on the Skype sessions and how to improve Skype ins:
1. Do a test-run a day or couple of hours before so that we are prepared for the actual session. You also know that the bandwidth is enough.2. Keep your notebook facing the audience, that way the remote speaker can see who all she is addressing.
3. Have some of the people in the audience pass around the computer and introduce themselves to the speaker. That way the speakers also get to know some of the audience.
4. For the Q&A have a person seated near the computer to repeat the questions for the speaker.
5. The screen sharing feature works great. Get your remote presenter to show some pictures. She can also use it to run presentations.
BTW Abby san posted some pictures from the meetup. http://www.meetup.com/sgtravelmeet/photos/969463/16040196/#16040196
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Thanks for sharing this Preetam. SMCKL has done a couple of skype sessions with Steve Rubel and Joe Stump. We learned from the experience that a good webcam – HD and 30fps was better than the laptop camera. We have this mounted on a clipboard pointed at the audience. We couldn’t move the laptop around because it was already hooked into the speaker system but that would be a great idea for a small audience.
btw, what software are you using to record your video skype sessions?
Am using call recorder for Skype. http://ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/