Skype takes the cake when it comes to video calls!
January 04, 2019
Skype takes the cake when it comes to video calls!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Skype
Skype has been used in my department for communication with members of other outside organizations ranging from; interviews, consultations, collaborations, and simply checking in socially. Skype has been a great way to allow for face to face communication, especially for larger group conversations, when the people in communication are far away and in-person meetings might not work.
- Skype allows for easy sorting of your contacts in a way that makes it easy to group people together and know who you need to contact.
- Skype seems to work well across multiple platforms; PC, Mac, and even handheld devices can use Skype in a way that is beneficial to their organizations.
- Skype allows you to evaluate and engage in conversation in a face to face way when person to person meetings would be hard to manage.
- Skype has been around for a while and there are now a lot of other platforms that do the same thing; Google Hangout, Dischord, etc. Skype may need something that differentiates them from the pack.
- Unlike cell service, because Skype is video heavy in the cases we use it, poor service and connection can often be a major complication. This is, however, an issue for any video conferencing software.
- Skype has allowed us to communicate face to face with people quickly and easily without the cost of travel.
- Sometimes Skype can be more of a hassle than helpful and a phone call could have easily handled the initial contact.
Skype seems to stand up well to Google Hangouts with the added bonus of you not having to have a Google account if you want to use it. It seemed like when I was talking with people about the best way to video conference them almost all of them knew what Skype was and felt confident in being able to use it.