A Cuppa at the Mosens, an open forum and better ways to contribute

With our listeners in the northern hemisphere well into holiday mode, we’re having a relaxed open forum where you can chat about anything on A Cuppa at the Mosens this week. We’d love to hear from you, with our clearer, easier ways to contribute.

We’ve evaluated the show from a technical perspective and are making changes that will make it even easier to call in, and the audio quality much better for more callers.

We’re now using Zoom Cloud Meetings as our platform to run the show. Zoom have free apps for PC, Mac, iOS and Android. They’re accessible, and easy to use. And the audio quality is far better than a phone call. Now, it’s much easier than it used to be to call from your Mac or PC using a microphone headset, and the iOS and Android apps give outstanding quality as well.

Still want to keep it old-school and use the phone? No problem. Phone numbers remain for all the countries where one existed before, although the numbers and the PIN you need to dial have changed.

We’ve made phoning easier as well. If you have a smartphone, when you visit the page for the show at http://www.MushroomFm.com/cuppa from your phone, double-tapping the phone number for your country will cause the number to be dialled, then the PIN entered without you having to do a thing. You’re welcome!

We recommend that ahead of this week’s show, you take the time to visit our all new page for the show, learn a bit about how Zoom works, and download and set it up for your device of choice. You’ll be glad you did, and it’s software that’s increasingly being used in a wide variety of contexts, so you’re sure to eventually use it for more than this show.

See you on Thursday, live at 9 PM Eastern time. To check when that is where you are, check the Mushroom FM schedule page. It’s a Cuppa at the Mosens, with Bonnie and Jonathan, only on Mushroom FM.