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Over the past six weeks I have attended four local social media and technology events – a PodCamp, a monthly social networking seminar, an annual project management ski day and WordCamp Toronto 2010. At each I was able to bring along a few Skype Everyman headsets to be given away as prizes.
Prior to selecting [...]
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Communications Stories, Skype Bytes, Skype For Business, Skype for Personal, Using Skype, Voice On The Web
A month ago at Mobile World Congress, Skype and Verizon stole the spotlight by announcing Verizon’s forthcoming Skype mobile service. This afternoon at CTIA in Las Vegas, Verizon and Skype announced that the service will launch in two days on Thursday, March 25 (think Christmas in March).
If there was one overriding theme that came [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Devices, Skype Channels, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype, Wireless Carriers
During my three plus years of blogging, the most educational and informative conference for keeping up with innovation in the “Emerging Communications” space has been eComm, the Emerging Communications Conference (and now Awards). And now eComm is coming to Europe in two weeks.
Conference organizer Lee Dryburgh and his team of advisors have assembled many [...]
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Conferences and Events, Mobile Applications, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Consider this a “Retweet for video”; in Renee’s dialogue/interview with/between Skype’s Chief Blogging Office Peter Parkes and Robert Scoble we learn a lot about the evolution of Skype’s approach to using social media. Skype sees social media as a key channel for engaging customers in conversations as a complement to both their marketing and support [...]
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Stefan Öberg, Vice-President, Skype for Business, provided his overview on “the future of modern business communications” at Interop last week. He started off by outlining his perspective on how consumer adoption of Skype is building business adoption from consumer experience; he feels this is driven by:
Economy: 43% percent of knowledge workers in US enterprises [...]
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Conferences and Events, Embedded Skype, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform
Doing the “grandparent” Skype video call and using Skype in a business environment has led two medical practitioners to begin using Skype to facilitate and accelerate patient care in their practice. While not a replacement for all doctor visits, there are situations where Skype video can be used to both screen patients prior to [...]
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How do you drive awareness for Skype? Have the two daytime talk shows with the largest audiences connect via a Skype (High Quality) video call.
Yesterday afternoon, during the Ellen de Generes show, Ellen was surprised to see Oprah appear, unannounced via a Skype video call, behind her on the large screen monitors used to support [...]
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The highlight of today’s sessions at Voice over the Net Canada was a presentation by Stefan Oberg, General Manager, Skype for Desktop and Skype Hardware. Stefan’s theme built on Alec Saunders’ Voice 2.0 Manifesto by talking about how Skype is working to be “better than a phone”.
After reviewing the history of text messaging from [...]
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Conferences and Events, Skype News, Skype Software, Using Skype
Voice On The Web by Jim Courtney is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.
