{"id":41940,"date":"2013-08-22T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=41940"},"modified":"2013-08-22T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T19:18:18","slug":"im-amazed-that-lowes-home-depot-others-arent-doing-more-of-this-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/08\/22\/im-amazed-that-lowes-home-depot-others-arent-doing-more-of-this-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m amazed that Lowe&#8217;s, Home Depot, &#038; others aren&#8217;t doing more of this! [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2013\/08\/google-announces-helpouts-a-help-for-cash-video-chat-service\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41941\" alt=\"GooglesRealHelpInRealTime-August2013\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GooglesRealHelpInRealTime-August2013.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GooglesRealHelpInRealTime-August2013.jpg 671w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GooglesRealHelpInRealTime-August2013-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;m amazed that Lowe&#8217;s, Home Depot, &amp; others aren&#8217;t doing more of this!\u00a0 Why can&#8217;t I Skype\/Facetime with an expert over at Home Depot on how to fix my disposal, identify what part I need in my broken garage door opener, how to put together that new crib that someone gave to our church, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My good friend, Don Levy from Calvin College, thought of an idea a while back just like this!\u00a0 But his idea was targeted for colleges &amp; universities &#8212; call the Subject Matter Experts at Calvin College and get instant help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I wouldn&#8217;t be the least bit surprised to see more of this sort of remote support in our futures.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From DSC: I&#8217;m amazed that Lowe&#8217;s, Home Depot, &amp; others aren&#8217;t doing more of this!\u00a0 Why can&#8217;t I Skype\/Facetime with an expert over at Home Depot on how to fix my disposal, identify what part I need in my broken garage door opener, how to put together that new crib that someone gave to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,127,533,180,518,367,189,49,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-collaboration","category-experimentation","category-innovation","category-tvs","category-vendors","category-videoconferencing","category-web-based-collaboration","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41943,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41940\/revisions\/41943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}