2. WHAT IS VIDEO CONFERENCING?
Interactive telecommunication technology
Conference between two or more participants
at different sites by transmitting audio and
video data
Tools: Video camera, microphone, speakers on
device
3. Skype Introduction
• Software that enables the world's conversations.
• Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype
to make free video and voice calls, send instant
messages and share files with other Skype users.
• Everyday, people also use Skype to make low-cost
calls to landlines and mobiles
4. Skype is a communications tool
• Humans are really, really, interested in things
that help us communicate with each other
more and better.
• From cave paintings to mobile phones, it’s
always the same.
• And this is even more true for young people.
They are forging their social identity through
conversation.
5. Skype is free
Free is quite interesting to people. Especially
free and good.
And it’s more interesting still to impoverished
young people!
If you tell your friends to get Skype too, you
can talk for as long as you like without
worrying about the cost or the distance.
6. Skype’s success
• 0 to customers in 2.5 years.
• Nearly 200 million customers today.
• Still growing at 200,000 new users every day.
7. Right idea, right time
• There was plenty of internet calling software
before Skype. But it didn’t work very well, and
lots of people still had slow dial-up internet
connections.
• It’s a very ‘native’ product for young people.
8. Simple and easy
• Skype worked really hard on making Skype as
easy to install and use as possible.
• We knew it was easy enough when Geoffrey’s
grandma could use it. (Geoffrey is one of the
original Skypers.)
• Ease of use is important for busy young people
too. Hence the iPod, people moving to
Facebook…
9. • Skype feels free
• Skype is free. More than that though, it feels
free.
• Free helps people realise that Skype is a
different kind of company.
• We took something that big companies
charged quite a lot for, and gave it to you for
free. Nice, eh?
10.
11. SKYPE
Software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over
the Internet
Initial names: “Sky peer-to-peer” and was abbreviated to “Skyper”
Since the domain name was taken, the creators dropped the “r” and left the
current title “Skype”
Special features:
Conference Calls with multiple people
Send Files instantly
Connect to your land line
Get your calls forwarded when you’re offline
Send Text from skype
Incoming calls from anyone
Great for individuals and businesses
Affordable
Free: Both users having Skype accounts
Pay as you go or Monthly payment
Calls to landlines and call phones
12. TOP 3 VIDEO CONFERENCING SITES
iChat
Must have Mac computer
expensive
2009: est. 12%
Most businesses use PC
Google Talk
Both parties have to have gmail account
Skype
13. SKYPE IN A BUSINESS ASPECT
Great way to communicate in real time
A way to communicate without physically being there
Can work anywhere at anytime
Better communication
Less errors: everyone can look at the document at the same time and
communicate
Changes are visible
Deal with off shore clients
Establish and maintain business relationships
Improves Customer service
14. Skype and Education
Video conferencing with authors
Tutor session
Language tutor around the world
Study sessions
Great way to Q & A with teachers and T.As
