Social Chat #8 last week was on video conferencing. Whether they are or can be useful, or just nice to have. Read some of my contributions bottom up:
- Find everything covered from today’s chat in Starfire, a concept video by Sun (1994) http://mprove.de/script/04/nng/starfire.html \*
- My parting remarks for today: \*
- Cisco pushes video conferencing to increase the need for bandwidth, in order to sell more routers. \*
- The shared working space is more important than watching people sitting around two tables – one real, the other virtual. \*
- Do professional video conferencing systems support shared whiteboards? Two or more teams in different cities working with additional media? \*
- Training and testing and learning is important to facilitate useful remote meetings. \*
- most of the people do not know how to conduct a proper video conference. \*
- You have a telly in the corner, too small to be useful. \*
- In addition, many conference rooms with state of the art video conferencing systems are not really suited for such. \*
- You spend too much time in preparing and fighting system errors instead of focussing on the content of the meeting. \*
- Most of the time the technology is too complicated to use with ease. \*
- … they can extend the time between real live meetings. To that extend they are saving real money. \*
- In my opinion video conferencing cannot replace meetings in RL. But… \*
- But I suppose you do net get a real sense for it without trying it yourself for several times. \*
- It is either expensive, and you do not want to waste you company’s resources. Or it is obtrusive, disturbing, and distracting. \*
- Video conferencing as presented in the video feels artificial to me. \*
- CBS feature on video conferencing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dapC8Y1crEU \*
- Some of my OraTweets from the SocialChat # 8 on Video Conferencing – Nice to have or needed? \*