![]() When Jeff called me tonight, he led me through the simple steps of two-way video chat using ooVoo (keep accidentally calling it “Voodoo.”) OoVoo is always free for two-way video chatting. ![]() Before the shower, Jeff is calling the contact person for each participating location to make sure the contact knows how to connect via the Internet to the shower. Jeff (Jon’s dad) is the designated IT guy for this shower. Additional branches of Jon’s extended family will participate in clusters via cyberspace reaching from Florida to Oregon. ![]() Bill and I will be at our Perry, Iowa, home with at least part of the Gunderson family from Rolfe and Omaha. Jon and Claire and their parents will be at Jon’s parents’ home in Michigan. When an observing location’s computer has a built-in or attached camera so that the remote participants can also be viewed via streaming video…the bonus will be two-way streaming video chatting (or three-way, four-way, or more). At each location there will be a computer that, at minimum, can handle one-way live video streaming for watching Jon and Claire open gifts. What we will do is video chat across the Internet. I’m sure we aren’t the first ones in the wide world doing this, but in our immediate worlds we are! Bingo! We decided to have a “remote” Internet shower. I talked with Jon’s mom, my next older sister, who is always game for fun, and pulled ideas from the guy at the Apple store and Jon’s brother, Josh. ![]() Hmmm…what to do? There must be some outside-the-box way to pull off a shower. I thought it would be a fun family time to host a shower for them in Iowa. Jon and Claire (my nephew and his bride) from Michigan are getting married in April. We'll use ooVoo for the remote Internet wedding shower on Sunday. L to R: Jeff and his better half, Jon and Claire, and me. Always.Using ooVoo (we had three-way video chatting tonight.
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