Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Zoom and Conference Calls When You are Travelling




How to Set up a Zoom Meeting
People at both ends need a Zoom account. Both of you need the zoom app. You get 45 minutes free if you are on the free trial. 

A business can either afford to pay the premium for longer, or offset the cost against tax. 

How to cope with the time? Either the organizer/admin is a person who has a zoom account installed at work. If you find the system is a great help, you may wish to pay for the service, a monthly fee. 

If not, what can you do?

Shorten Meetings
Hold shorter meetings more often. Split the agenda by subject. Discuss this months meetings on the first Sunday of the month. Discuss the rest of the year on the second Sunday and by whatsapp and email.

Time Meetings
Or be more careful about keeping to time. Five minutes per agenda item. Chats about other matters after the formal meeting ends.

Schedule Following Meeting Soon
Consider logging in later the same day after a tea break on a different person's laptop or phone.
Or log in another day on a different person's account. 

Watch the time because:
1 If you are on the limited time system, it will cut out after flashing a warning message.
2 You can structure the meeting to end slightly earlier. 
3 Put the thanks to the host and the dates of the next meeting at the start instead of only at the end in case you run out of time.

Happy chatting, and a productive year.

What does zoom do that Skype does not do?
Zoom allows webinar. If you can share screens you can show slides.

Useful Websites
Skype
Google share
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Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Club

Singapore Online Toastmasters

About The Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author of more than 20 books listed on Amazon and Lulu.com  Please share links to your favourite posts and useful posts.

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