{"id":42,"date":"2011-12-08T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/scott-adams-gets-it-skype-can-change-your-business"},"modified":"2011-12-08T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:31:48","slug":"scott-adams-gets-it-skype-can-change-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Scott Adams gets it &#8211; Skype can change your business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skype is one of those new fangled things that have been around for years and is finally finding general use.&#0160; I use Skype video conferencing to do face-to-face business meetings every day with clients and suppliers in far-off places like Brisbane, Birmingham and Moscow. And Adelaide, Seattle and Dallas&#8230;and Las Vegas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef015438067479970c-800wi\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dilbert Skype strip.print\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef015438067479970c\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef015438067479970c-450wi\" style=\"width: 450px;\" title=\"Dilbert Skype strip.print\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\" target=\"_self\">Dilbert<\/a> is a creation of Scott Adams<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the day when I can do business in Roanoke, Salem, and Christiansburg from my Floyd workshop without driving an hour or more over mountain roads.<\/p>\n<p>Skype is free, for now at least, and you should look into it if you have high speed Internet and would like the convenienceof face-to-face communication with people who are important to you.<\/p>\n<p>Instant video conferencing lets you build tight relationships with like-minded people. I am already looking forward to my next smartphone which will give me mobile Skype video conferencing when I am out of my office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype is one of those new fangled things that have been around for years and is finally finding general use.&#0160; I use Skype video conferencing to do face-to-face business meetings every day with clients and suppliers in far-off places like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}