Ok. I’ve finished most of the stuff I can do beforehand. The presentation (with my commentary) is up in a standalone form as well as in a Breeze meeting just in case.

The last thing that I needed to do was to put in place an audio-only alternative. I thought long and hard about whether or not to do this (I’d really like to force people to listen via their PC only) and in the end decided that it would come in really handy if something with Breeze broke.

“Breeze break?” I hear you ask. Well, yes. There have been a couple of times when the server has disappeared and so a contingency plan is needed.

I plumped for Premiere Global. The neat trick with them is that they integrate with Breeze so that the audio is pumped from Breeze into the phone bridge and phone attendees show up in Breeze as attendees. Very neat, in fact.

That said, it nearly wasn’t very neat. If it wasn’t for Barb Tomines in Colorado who took my details over the phone so that my UK credit card could be used to activate what is a US phone conference facility I might have been stuck.

I don’t get why seemingly online businesses put silly barriers in place like preventing you from using non-US credit cards and pointing you at a EU-based sister service instead. Especially when they all go home at 18:00.

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