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Preferred Technology?

Submitted by Greg Mills on Sat, 06/04/2005 - 1:33pm. Online Study Group

We've done the first two Bible studies using the MSN Messenger service. We ask people to message me from their Messenger accounts so that I can send them back an invite into the group discussion. There are other chat programs available that allow the same sort of interaction. We could easily switch to AIM, Yahoo or ICQ. It's a just a matter of finding out what "the masses" prefer.

Alternately, we could go really cutting edge and do this on a VOIP service like Skype. I'm inclined to give this one a shot. It would probably keep anyone on a dialup connection from participating because of the bandwidth required. But, we would get to have an actual real-time voice discussion. I wonder how many people on dial-up are into Podcasting anyway because of the large filesizes of most Podcasts?

Speak up! Post your preference here.

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Skype it is

Submitted by Greg Mills on Thu, 06/09/2005 - 6:12am.

I went ahead and made the decision to try Skype this week. You can still post your preference here. All of this is still experimental so it could easily change again.

The new SkypeIn service will allow regular telephones to dial in but the service costs money so we'll have to wait and see how this works for online users before we consider adding that too.

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