I have a Skype account but have found there to be four major challenges when using this or similar accounts.
1) The time zone - being east of Melbourne /Victoria/Australia limits the people 'awake' when I am.
2) Being nearly as far South as one can get and still be on land the reception when communicating with the northern hemisphere is atrociousness.
3) Using WiFi Internet access has a bearing on reception apparently.
4) People cannot get a visual due to ?
There are two other things I will suggest
~ When using the video chat services [ even Hang Outs] having newbies on tend to hinder the group discussions so my suggestions is to have something like Wiki or Blackboard and train while training these team members as a precursor to action.
~ Also no matter how good your chat topics are people need to function to think so allow for the same topic to be on two or three times per day and thus attract time zoned and active thinkers for that 'chat'.
Hope this answer is helpful. Please share and also put forward your thoughts and responses.
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I have a Skype account but have found there to be four major challenges when using this or similar accounts.
1) The time zone - being east of Melbourne /Victoria/Australia limits the people 'awake' when I am.
2) Being nearly as far South as one can get and still be on land the reception when communicating with the northern hemisphere is atrociousness.
3) Using WiFi Internet access has a bearing on reception apparently.
4) People cannot get a visual due to ?
