SKYPE

SHARED
WORKSPACES/COLLABORATION
TOOLS
JESSLYNN SANDOLO
EDT 321
Skype Provides Multiple Methods of Communications

Video

Audio Text

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 Who Uses Skype?
Percent of Skype Smart Phone
Among Smart Phone Users, Skype Is
Users
Used By:
29% of 18-29 year olds.
27% of 30-59 year olds.
12% of 60+ year olds.
18-29 30-59 60+

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 Who Uses Skype?
Percent of Skype Users Based on Gender
56.00%
46.3% of Skype users are Male 54.00%

52.00%
53.7% of Skype users are Female 50.00%

48.00%

46.00%

44.00%

42.00%
Male Female

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 Skype Features

Provides the ability to

Skype to Skype based call cellphone users as
Ability to chat with 25
calls can be made at no well as landline based
users at once.
charge to the user(s). users at a relatively low
fee (based on location).

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 How Does Skype Fit Into Social Media?

Allows various methods of communications through video, audio

and text.

Allows integration to other forms of social media.

Is free and easily accessible to the public.

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 Why Is Skype Important?

Provides service members with the ability to call friends and

family when serving over seas.
Brings individuals together whom share various thoughts and
opinions whom may not of otherwise come in to contact with
one another.
Can be used to document historical events such as times of civil
unrest, wars and major movements.
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 Why Should Skype Be Adopted By Social
Media Users?

The adoption rate of skype is at over 75,000,000.

Skype is being currently being utilized by educators, armed
services, fortune 500 companies and major news networks.
Allows users to easily communicate with one another in multiple
formats and can easily link other forms of social media to it.

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 My Recommendation

I Use Skype to:

Communicate with other students.
Communicate with friends and family that live far away.
Communicate with professors and online tutoring.

I would highly recommend anyone to use Skype as it is free (for the

most part), easy to use and a great resource to have in academia.
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 Thank You!

Thank you for watching my PowerPoint presentation on skype.

Any questions about this presentation may be sent to jmsandol@asu.edu
To download and view additional information about skype, please go to their
website at HTTPS://WWW.SKYPE.COM/EN/

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 REFERENCE
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MINUTES-USERS-54-FEMALE-33-ARE-COLLEGE-EDUCATED/#.TNW_GJDYGXIZ
AUDIO: [SKYPE CALL SOUND]. GIORGII DAVITASHVILI. RETRIEVED: 8/28/17. FROM:
HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=FTNMGDQQ0AE
STAFF. (2017). SKYPE USAGE AMONG SMARTPHONE OWNERS IN THE UNITED STATES AS OF
FEBRUARY 2017, BY AGE GROUP. STATISTICA. RETRIEVED: 8/28/17. FROM:
HTTPS://WWW.STATISTA.COM/STATISTICS/273082/AGE-DISTRIBUTION-OF-US-SKYPE-USERS/
STAFF. (2017). SKYPE FEATURES: FIND OUT WHAT FEATURES YOU CAN USE WITH SKYPE. SKYPE.
RETRIEVED: 8/28/17. FROM: HTTPS://WWW.SKYPE.COM/EN/FEATURES/
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