{"id":1007,"date":"2006-10-05T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/skype-webhuddle-im-free-breeze-connect-skuddle-chat\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:59","slug":"skype-webhuddle-im-free-breeze-connect-skuddle-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/skype-webhuddle-im-free-breeze-connect-skuddle-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype + WebHuddle + IM = Free Breeze (Connect) = Skuddle-Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <span>IU<\/span>, we use Breeze for our online synchronous &#8220;classes&#8221;. However, I just attended an online <a href=\"http:\/\/worldbridges.net\/node\/203\">presentation with the good folks at <span>WorldBridges<\/span><\/a> in which <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/helloagain.html\">Skype<\/a><\/span> + <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webhuddle.com\/\">WebHuddle<\/a><\/span> + text chat were used to create a pretty slick alternative to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/breeze\/\">Breeze<\/a><i>, <\/i>now re-branded as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/acrobatconnectpro\/\">Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional&#8221;<\/a> since the acquisition of <span>Macromedia<\/span> by Adobe<i> &#8230;. <span>hmmm<\/span> &#8230; doesn&#8217;t quite roll off the <span>tongue<\/span> does it? But &#8230; I digress.<\/i> This set up included real time voice, video and text chat with desktop sharing. I haven&#8217;t seen the finished &#8220;recording&#8221;, but it will likely be clunker than <strike>Breeze<\/strike> (I mean) Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional recordings given that the individual components will remain on separate platforms. However, for the money (free), it did the trick! Now, what to call it? Since Adobe <span>Acrobat<\/span> Connect Professional is already taken, how about <i><strong><span>skuddle<\/span>-chat? <\/strong><\/i>I knew that MBA in Marketing would come in handy one day!\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:right;\">technorati tags:<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/skype\" rel=\"tag\">skype<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/WebHuddle\" rel=\"tag\">WebHuddle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Breeze\" rel=\"tag\">Breeze<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/web%20cast\" rel=\"tag\">web cast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At IU, we use Breeze for our online synchronous &#8220;classes&#8221;. However, I just attended an online presentation with the good folks at WorldBridges in which Skype + WebHuddle + text chat were used to create a pretty slick alternative to Breeze, now re-branded as &#8220;Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional&#8221; since the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-webcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}