{"id":444,"date":"2019-04-09T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/digital-first\/?p=444"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:41:23","slug":"think-once-think-twice-think-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2019\/04\/09\/think-once-think-twice-think-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"Think once, think twice . . . think Skype!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorset Council Adults and Communities Head of Service Jon Goodwin is a big fan of Skype for Business.<\/p>\n<p>In this short video Jon\u2019s adapted a 40-year-old road safety campaign slogan to highlight to colleagues how Skype\u2019s video conferencing and online collaboration features can save the council time and money.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oj93UyMf1bc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dorset Council staff can use Skype for Business to communicate with individuals or groups of colleagues through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instant messaging (IM)<\/li>\n<li>Voice calls<\/li>\n<li>Video calls<\/li>\n<li>Online meetings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jon, who has been with the council for a year, said: \u201cDorset has really invested in digital, giving people good kit &#8211; hardware and software. It\u2019s an innovative and empowering approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me Skype is an essential tool. It lends itself to good meetings and focuses people on getting agreement and a decision. We make more decisions in a quicker time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/digitaldorset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Follow Digital Dorset on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dorsetcouncil.us1.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=c39535cf4f9d1ca66af8d2b44&amp;id=bc36c80975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up for e-news from Digital Dorset<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorset Council Adults and Communities Head of Service Jon Goodwin is a big fan of Skype for Business. In this short video Jon\u2019s adapted a 40-year-old road safety campaign slogan to highlight to colleagues how Skype\u2019s video conferencing and online collaboration features can save the council time and money. Dorset Council staff can use Skype&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2019\/04\/09\/think-once-think-twice-think-skype\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Think once, think twice . . . think Skype!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}