What if you could host a live talk show on the Web and turn the audio into a podcast? That’s cool, but wouldn’t it be cooler if you could also have your audience sit back, relax and watch your slide deck go by while you talked?

You can do all the above (with some limitations I’ll discuss below) with two fairly new offerings on the Web: Talkshoe and Teamslide.

I’m always on the hunt for enabling technologies one can seize to deliver value in consulting, marketing, sales, and deliver intellectual capital in new and more efficient ways. With these two offerings combined, we’re soooo close to being able to deliver high value, mass audience webinars without paying hundreds or thousands of dollars per month in fees to the likes of WebEx, Go-to-Meeting and others…but we’re not there yet.

When Skypecasts were added as a preview on the Skype site, I was initially excited until I realized that — even though they were able to deliver call-in “shows/events” for up to 100 people — it was Skype only (no landline callers can participate). I then was quite enthused when I discovered HighSpeedConferencing which delivered call-in shows/events for up to 500 people and both Skype and landline callers could participate.

But there are no visuals with Skypecasts or other cool, new audio conferencing solutions! I have my own pent-up demand for high volume, mass audience webinar and presentation capability. While reading the Skypejournal and forums where Skype’ers hang out, there is no question that many, many others share that need so there’s a market for this combination.

Are there any “gotcha’s” with using Talkshoe, Teamslide, HighSpeedConferencing and other services to hold mass webinars or shows?

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