Here’s a thought I’ve been kicking around for a while: doing webcast workshops from my home computer instead of traveling all over the country (or the world), using up fossil fuels and costing my hosts a small fortune in plane tickets, hotel costs, etc.
All I would have to do is get a webcam for my Mac G4 and find out how to set up a web conference. Should I sign up with a commercial service, or could my friends at Drak.Net host it? I’d have to clean my office, at least behind my desk, and remember to brush my beard each time…
Would-be hosts could organize house parties with a computer connected to a large screen TV, or to a digital projector in college auditoriums. They could collect a donation per workshop hour from the participants and split the money left over from expenses between their organization (if any) and myself.
Or would-be attendees could log onto neopagan.net, make a PayPal donation, then be forwarded to the website from which a given lecture or workshop was being hosted.
I could start doing regular weekly classes or once a month weekend workshops from my home, with anywhere from dozens to hundreds (thousands?) of viewers. With some web conference software, audience members could ask questions and converse with me live. Best of all, I could make recordings of some of the events and sell them as DVDs.
This sounds like a win-win solution for me and my readers/viewers. What do you think?
Lovely idea. I know I would participate.
That’s a fabulous idea. I’d definitely be interested.