Help us out here...it's not that hard....

[youhavetoforgiveme]

.... I kinda figured this out accidentally...there is a lot to be said for "face to face" communications. Obviously....this is not practical considering that we're all over the US....however....

If you have a video camera (most laptops have one built in)...got to the VIDEO chat room...you don't need audio to do this....

Be seen! IIRC, I was eating dinner at the time....and because I didn't have audio (either "in" or "out")....there wasn't really much I could say or do....

But I was VISible! Fellow 12160's saw that I was a real "flesh and blood" person.

Something to be said for that....stand up and be counted (or at least seen ;) )! :D

[Patriot Horse]

lol... Marklar.... and I'm from the state of "Make-ah".

[Marklar]

That works too. The greatest nation on the face of the Earth is donation!

[youhavetoforgiveme]

Not a bad idea...as long as it's productive....the more messages we have shouting, the more reasons someone will stop and listen (they may even be accused of learning something).

Sadly...when it comes to public speaking I'm like a 3 min. egg. I'd never last for 60 minutes and even if I did....I couldn't do it consistently.

Same $30-40....why not send it in to help pay for this web site. That money would support this site for over a month. How many lives could be touched? We already have 1,500 members :)

[Marklar]

Thanks for pointing this out, audio without video is great too, we may not be able to see you but joining in with audio let's you participate more fully than the text chat as we sometimes forget to watch what's going on down there as we babble on amongst ourselves.

Also remember that while you can spend a couple of hundred dollars on a really good cam and headset you can also get set up for as little as $30 - $40 for both. Sure you may not be broadcasting in Dan Rather quality but neither are most of us.

If you want to get really involved spend that thirty bucks for a basic setup and start your own daily or weekly show and help us build our audience for both the video casting and podcasting sides of fearless. The more content we produce the more listeners we are likely to draw. Don't worry if you've never done it before. We are just starting out ourselves really but we also have plenty of people willing to offer advice and resources to the inexperienced. Maybe you don't even want to talk politics and organic gardening, archeology, economics, or sci-tech is your thing, if you can babble on about it for an hour or more each week we want to hear it.