A couple days ago my group had its first online meeting. The experience had a few hiccups, but we were able to accomplish what we had intended to accomplish.
The platform that we used was Google+ Hangouts. A couple of my team members had not used this before, and I had forgotten to complete a mock meeting during our last in-person meet-up. This would have eliminated a couple technical difficulties when we were setting the meeting up.
While the platform did force us to be more succinct than we typically are in person, I don't think that it was worth the tradeoff of losing body language cues. For example, there were times that we would all start talking at once, since the delay cut out indication that someone was about to start talking.
Overall the meeting went well and we communicated what we needed to, while resisting the urge to use the mustache feature. In the future, I would prefer live meetings, but I know that we are capable of using online meetings as an alternative if necessary.
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