Conference Calls Services, ManyCam & Options

We cannot meet in person in the UK or Singapore, but we can hold meetings online and meet online visitors  from all over the world.


Singapore flag.

I belong to Singapore Online Toastmasters club. We meet every week.

Singapore Online Toastmasters. I am centre right.

When you are sent a Zoom meeting identity link, first you must download the zoom app, before you can log into a particular meeting.

You can use your phone or laptop. If you sign in with your phone to join fast, then add your laptop and connected big screen, you will see your photo appear on the screen, and another blank screen with your name from your phone. You will also create an echo when speaking or simply listening.
So once you have go going on the big screen, turn off the phone.

Manycam
I downloaded Manycam and experimented with the backgrounds you can use. They provide green and others. You can also load up your own photo as a background.

I tried using the green background.

Later I just held an umbrella, a black umbrella.

Useful websites
freeconferencecall.com
manycam.com
zoom.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManyCam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webcam_software

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, speech trainer and speaker.

How to create and run an online meeting

Decide to hold meetings online. If possible find a few others who agree and will help you. If not, just set it up, so you are ready to answer questions, fend off objections, and then ask for help.

Decide which system you want to use, zoom or another. This may depend on the length of the meeting, whether you are willing to pay, how long you want the meeting to be.

Set up your meeting account. Make yourself and possibly somebody else an admin.

Send the attendees their link.
Tell them that they need to sign in.

On zoom, show them the buttons to click on for:
 mute and unmute
chat - to everyone or message one person such as yourself the admin or another
How to leave the meeting
How to be recorded
To record sound only
To record video

Zoom
If you use zoom, you fill in the link.
Sign up with your name.
https://zoom.us/postattendee?id=7

Free Conference Call
https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/

Your name or reference number is added on the end of the above link.
You can also use Whatsapp and Google.

More later. See next post.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury. Please save links to your favourite posts.