Hoof,
I was kind of hoping someone or several would join me on Skype over the past 2 hours to test this concept, prove or disprove the efficiency of that tool as group sharing medium (voice and screen). But alas, I must sign off now and focus on a the finishing touches of this RDSS udpate.
I thought to try Skype as probably many more people use Skype than TeamViewer, though TV is a snap to download and install and it does provide more tools for control and moderation. Both provide the means to share live computer screens and share audio and video and text, but I don't know of any way to 'moderate' Skype sessions (mute audio, take control of another computer, hand off control to another session member and exit the session), whereas TV does all these and a lot more.
I've done lots of multi-party TV sessions, but no multi-party Skype sessions which is why I wanted to try, to compare.
FWIW, I will hold an open Live
Skype session
tomorrow (Tuesday Dec 18) at
1pm Eastern for about an hour. Anyone who wants to join then, just Skype me:
ted.craven and I'll add you to the group. We can rotate showing our RDSS screens and process for working some races. We can work whatever is running then.
Then another day, we can do a trial of a multi-party
TeamViewer live session, perhaps an evening. To prepare for this, folks could download and install TeamViewer 8 (
www.teamviewer.com). It will be a test for me to work out logistical issues for January's online live RDSS clinics (including recording the session on a separate computer for posting here).
Ted