I've been experimenting with Zoom conferencing software lately and I'm going to try to set up some online conferences where readers of this website can log in and ask me questions and I may have some interesting friends in the conferences, too. Over the next week or so, I'll be doing some little test conferences with a limited number of participants. If you'd like to be invited into one, drop me a note at this address (and only that address) and tell me.
Depending on how many of these I do and how many volunteers I have, you may or may not get an invite. Don't feel slighted if you don't. If I start doing these more seriously, everyone will have a chance to participate…but first, I have to decide if I want to do these more seriously. In the tests, we'll mostly be talking about the kinds of entertainment I write about on this blog and I'm in the mood these days to steer clear of politics.
You'll need to have Zoom software on your computer and a free account with them. You'll also need a webcam that will show your face and a microphone that will transmit your voice and you'll have to know how to do make this stuff work. Zoom is pretty easy to operate as a participant in an online meeting and you may not need a tutorial but if you do, there are about ninety of them on YouTube, all of which will tell you a lot more than you need to know. I'm not sure yet when the first test conference will be but it will be in the coming week.