I hosted my first Skypecast

I have just hosted my first Skypecast, finished about an hour ago.

The discussion topic was “Using Skypecasts to Connect in Business”

It was a rather frightening experience initially, and then I managed to gain control of it.

I made it a public Skypecast and within minutes more than 20 people joined the chat and started trying to talk at once. Some of them could not speak in English. Some did not even seem interested in the topic and just joined for a chat. They all seemed to want to talk at once. I kept trying to move them all to “listening mode” but it was rather difficult. At some point I even accidentally left the Skypecast. I then got back into the Skypecast, and found the option to move everyone to “listening mode” and then started moderating the Skypecast properly.

Then someone started bugging me, wanting to have a private, non-business chat. He would not talk in the group cast, and I ended up ejecting him and blocking him when he wouldn’t stop making inappropriate comments.

Many views and comments were put forward by attendees on Using Skypecasts to Connect in Business. Someone raised the issue of trust, and the problem of trusting people for business when one met them on a public cast, especially as most people do not use their real names. Some participants only used used Skype for business one-to-ones and had no experience of group casts.

After the Skypecast, I exchanged contacts with a couple of the participants, and had an indepth business discussion with one of them. We talked about our respective businesses and the business discussion was going well, until I asked for the person’s website address. And guess what? The website link that he sent me had a high risk trojan embedded in it. And of course, my Antivirus “screamed and screamed”, denied access and made quite a “song and dance” over it. Even when it had quarantined the Trojan, my antivirus still won’t let it go. I informed the person who sent me the link, and he claimed it was nothing, that my computer should be able to live with it. Eventually I had to log off, run lots of scans, shut down my computer, and restarted before everything quietened down.

Anyway, it was a useful experience, and I have learnt a lot by doing it. I intend to host more Skypecasts in future. It could turn out to be a really useful tool for my existing business networking forum, Enterprise Forum.

Mary Akpala, WebOffice Specialist
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