Skype for the 8BIT Team is one of the tools that we couldn’t live without.
We conduct all of our weekly meetings with it as well as individual one-on-one’s when needed. It’s an essential tool in our toolkit and so far we’ve been pleased.
Unfortunately (or fortunately…?) we’ve been unable to see each other’s faces during these all-staff meetings which I feel would be (at times) an added bonus since we are a near 100% virtual team.
But Skype plans to release group video chat which would be a killer addition: