I didn’t know what I was going to write about tonight, and I try to avoid writing about work, but the way we are pulling off a web conference to get around technical difficulties is too good to pass.

We are doing a web conference with one of our professional content Experts from Thomson-Reuters FindLaw as part of our SEO course.  This week, our Lync software was updated to Skype for Business.  Along the way, some of the features changed.  One of the things that changed is that we lost the option to dial in with a phone number instead of using the web audio.

When our speaker Jonathan Wilson connected, there were network issues that weren’t allowing him to connect with the audio.  So, we had to find a solution.  Long story short, I connected to the video conference and had Jonathan dial my office phone.  As seen in the picture, I then placed my phone on speaker phone and placed my microphone by the speaker phone so we could broadcast his voice to the web conference.  No problem.

Then we had to deal with the deck.  Nope, that wasn’t going to work with the technical problems either.  So he emailed me his deck and I shared it through my connection.  No problem.

If you know Jonathan, he is not a lecturer, he is an interactive communicator.  He asks questions and goes off on tangents based upon the topics at hand and does a great job of floating between instruction, entertainment, and conversation.  So naturally, he asks the class a question at a point early in the class.  One of the students answered his question and you guessed it, Jonathan couldn’t hear him.

Now we are getting into the hang of this, so I gathered up my speaker, placed it in front of the phone mic so that the phone can hear the student speaking over the web conference through my microphone.  No problem!  All is good.

Well, this is too good not to capture, and I was looking for something to blog about tonight.  So, I whipped out my phone and took a picture of the mic, speaker phone and speaker sandwich.  Well, I need to get this to a location where I can get the image into my blog, so I uploaded the image to my Google+ Photos folder.

Obviously I couldn’t blog on the computer I was using to do the web conference, so I pulled out my tablet and started blogging.  I download the image to my blog and write this blog.  No problem.

As I am writing this, Jonathan is still teaching.  Right now he is talking about the Social links to SEO benefits.  By the time he is done, I should have this blog ready to go, and we will share it with the class to maybe get some new first time visitors to my blog.  Okay, maybe they aren’t the most targeted visitors to my blog, but I am still small enough that any reader is an ideal reader.  😉

I guess this would be “dark social”.

That is all I have for today, thanks for what you do Jonathan.  And if any of the students in the class are reading this, welcome to my blog.

Last minute note, my computer crashed on the next to last slide.  Go figure.  No Problem!

PEACE!

KT

Day 31