Yesterday's team meeting was interesting - enough said! I joined via the live streamed video plus instant messaging. Recently, Mark asked about the experience of remote workers joining meetiings via the Ultraversity system and I looked back at my earlier thoughts, back to the first time I could fully access the live stream.

"Bring your sandwiches" was on the invitation to a lunchtime meeting, so I made a coffee to go with them, then took my seat at the meeting. Everyone else was 240 miles away, I'd just got broadband and I was taking part in my first live streamed meeting with Ultraversity. I work from North Wales, and its a long way to go to Chelmsford but I felt as though I was almost there as I watched the room fill with colleagues, listened to the banter before the formal agenda and posted my questions online to hear them read out at the meeting. Since then I've become accustomed to joining Ultralab's web-streamed meetings, they are opportunities to join in the debates without leaving my desk, without relying on relayed messages and without feeling that I've been left out in the rain.

Every time a meeting is mentioned there is a cry from the remote team, "Will it be streamed?"