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by Dowbocop » Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:04 am

Every two months or so my department has a big whole day team meeting. Essentially it's an update on the state of our department from the boss, followed by a review of a monthly clinical competence test and training thing that we all have to do, then interesting cases, then some presentations about various things. There's a lot of looking at PowerPoint on a projector. Most of our team do a fair bit of travel across sites over the course of our day to day work, and we all need to come into our main office for this meeting. There is very limited scope for working from home in our team.

I'm not entirely convinced this particular event needs to be face to face, so I've been looking at videoconferencing solutions so we could have this meeting remotely. However, most of the ones I've looked at are either subscription based or have a time/user limited free tier, which wouldn't really fly for this application. Paying for a service isn't currently feasible because it won't be used that regularly and I don't think it's a good use of our budget (and that's coming from the person who thought of the idea :lol: ).

Does anyone use remote videoconferencing software regularly? Essentially we only need screen-sharing and two way audio for everyone, nothing too fancy and no webcam feed. Are there any free solutions for this? I'm thinking something like Google Hangouts might work if that's still a thing, but I was wondering if anyone had any input.

Have a blue sky and then touch base with me yeah?

TIA

KR

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Dual » Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:11 am

Think we'll have to kick this one into the long grass for now buddy.

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by Oblomov Boblomov » Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:52 am

Hi Dowbocop

Why don't you send Skype For Business up the flagpole and see who salutes it?

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by Kezzer » Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:00 pm

Without justification via a full business case, I don't think we can sign off on the Capex.

I think you will need to but this in the mental microwave and see what happens.

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Rocsteady » Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:01 pm

MS Teams or Skype for business are clear contenders surely.

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by OrangeRKN » Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:51 pm

zoom.us

Free tier will end meetings after 30 minutes - only the host needs a paid account though.

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by That's not a growth » Sun Feb 23, 2020 3:27 pm

Zoom
Whereby
Ms teams
Skype
Skype for business
Filming your part of the conversation, sending it via WeTransfer, then waiting for a similar reply
Google hangouts

In order or preference. Not really used Cisco so can't comment on it.

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Dowbocop » Mon Feb 24, 2020 6:34 pm

Top work guys, I'll examine these more closely moving forward and when I meet the key stakeholder tomorrow we'll discuss options then try and thrash out a success metric for this particular transformation journey.

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Kezzer » Mon Feb 24, 2020 6:40 pm

fyi cisco webex personal aka free version lets you do presentations for 40mins

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by BID0 » Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:03 pm

Use Teams if you are using Office365

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Moggy » Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:17 pm

We use Zoom but I think you need to apply some synergy to your thinking here. Why not push the envelope a bit and circle back to us once you’ve got all of your ducks in a row?

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by Corazon de Leon » Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:26 pm

Skype for Office here, but we were in a video training meeting earlier and I felt that the synergy of the output just wasn’t adapting to the flow of the team. I’d advise you to do a real deep dive to see if you can find a holistic solution to your predicament.

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Green Gecko » Thu Feb 27, 2020 11:37 am

Please stop emailing me

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Skarjo » Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:55 am

I use Google Meets and Zoom to do virtual lessons. Prefer Meets with the older kids (Hi NoContext thread) but Zoom works better with the younger kids who need a bit more management when working on tasks.

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PostRe: Videoconferencing
by Steve » Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:12 pm

Use Zoom at work. Decent & does the job well.


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