The post walks you through how you can check your latency and some ways to improve it. I'm working today on a second post in the series with an overview of recent online sessions and best practices for organizers and participants. If you're on Facebook, you can follow Digital Heritage Consulting at https://www.facebook.com/digitalheritageconsulting, and I'll try to post here on Mudcat as well.
I've also put together a three-part series Digital Houseconcerts in the Age of #COVID-19 for organizers seeking performance not participation and artists seeking payment for their work. Artists are hit hard by this pandemic, as we all know, and the two houseconcerts I've hosted in the last two weeks have significantly helped one touring and one local artist not just financially, but with hope and encouragement.
If you're interested in digging deeper into creative tech for digital heritage, I'd invite you to join my Facebook group for The Mermaid's Tavern: a Community DIY Digital Studio. I do 1:1 coaching there for organizers and creatives in this brave new world of ours.
The Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) has added online sessions to their Community Events Calendar.
Please reach out and contribute any sessions you're aware of to these calendars, and thank the volunteers for their important efforts in helping us all sing together.
Many of us are working as session leaders to manage latency, assist new conference callers, and evolve etiquette practices that take best advantage of the online medium and minimize the disappointments of not being able to see each other in real life and sing with each other in real time. My virtual sessions Live From the Mermaid's Tavern alternate every two weeks, with Chantey Sings on third Sundays and Ballad Sings on fifth/first Sundays. Here are the next two, and I hope you'll join us.