{"id":261,"date":"2007-10-18T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2007-10-18T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T22:51:00","slug":"videochat-success-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/videochat-success-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Videochat success stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>I chatted with the librarian setting it up at her end, about some alternative ideas that have been raised in email discussions.\n<\/li>\n<li>One of our students came along for a prearranged meeting for his sister in another university &#8211; they talked for about a quarter of an hour.\n<\/li>\n<li>One of our postgrads asked whether it&#8217;d be possible to use it to talk to a librarian in another library to help with finding what resources that library has (presumably to then get through interlibrary loan).  We didn&#8217;t actually try this out and I&#8217;m not sure if he had a specific application in mind but it&#8217;d definitely be possible and is a neat idea.\n<\/li>\n<li>Lots of people stopping to look, wave at people through the screen, and chatting with us at the desk about it &#8211; it&#8217;s not so glamourous as the rest, but I think this sort of light interaction goes a long way to make us more approachable by users.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other uses I&#8217;ve seen or heard about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>Helping a colleague in another branch sort out a problem with wireless access by having her turn her laptop screen to the camera.\n<\/li>\n<li>Another couple of colleagues in different branches talking over the connection.\n<\/li>\n<li>Keeping our manager (at the time in another branch) informed about developments here.\n<\/li>\n<li>Colleagues being able to put faces to names they&#8217;d only seen before in emails.\n<\/li>\n<li>Students having fun pulling faces at students in other libraries. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/li>\n<li>A student in one branch seeing a friend in another:  &#8220;There you are!  I&#8217;ve been looking for you!&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ideas being talked about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>using it in Orientation Week\n<\/li>\n<li>using different software over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karen.net.nz\/home\/\">KAREN network<\/a> to be connected to several libraries at once\n<\/li>\n<li>possibilities for management purposes (our manager runs two branches so is constantly back and forth)\n<\/li>\n<li>between interlibrary loan departments to save on toll calls\n<\/li>\n<li>distance reference provision\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Well, at least <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> talking about the last two &#8211; but people are humouring me and agreeing that they&#8217;re nice ideas.)<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, there&#8217;s a flurry of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> messages over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2007\/oct%3Cbr%20\/%3E\/18\/skype?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=technology\">the news that MySpace is going to embed Skype in its interface<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far today: I chatted with the librarian setting it up at her end, about some alternative ideas that have been raised in email discussions. One of our students came along for a prearranged meeting for his sister in another university &#8211; they talked for about a quarter of an hour. One of our postgrads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[209,224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}