Articles tagged "Video conferencing"

It's ok to face-mute

We're now years into this great experiment in remote work. It started off as a Zoom, but now it feels more like a plod. Our work lives are lived on camera all day, every day—and it's time to let people take a break.

How to automatically close those annoying "Launch Meeting" tabs from Zoom

It's bad enough that you have five Zoom meetings this morning. Why, when the meetings are done, do you have to come back to a browser with five "Launch Meeting" tabs?

Integration how to: Connect Calendly to Zoom

Integration How To: Connect Calendly to Zoom - Create Meetings from Scheduled Events

4 video meeting rules that should follow us back to the office

As people start transitioning back into the office, I hope they'll take some of the lessons they learned from online meetings to improve the in-person ones. Here are four remote meeting rules that I think should follow us back to the office.

9 Microsoft Teams features you should be using for your meetings

Before the pandemic, I didn't even know Microsoft Teams existed. Like millions of other people, I used a mish-mash of different communication tools at work. Now, it's hard to remember what life was like before Teams.

How to share a presentation on Zoom without sharing your browser tabs and address bar

If you're doing a presentation on Zoom, and I can see the top of your browser, I am not listening to a word you're saying. At all. 

How to blur your background in Zoom—and the case for not doing it

That Zoom blur background is everywhere. It prevents your coworkers from seeing the mess or other variation of chaos behind you—and it only makes your hair look vaguely weird.

Zoom noise cancellation: How to block background noise on Zoom

Just to be clear, these suppression levels will block background noise for your coworkers, but you'll still have to suffer through them yourself. 

How to add your pronouns on Zoom

Zoom recently added easier pronoun sharing, but the setting isn't easy to find. Here's how to use the official pronoun feature, along with a workaround if your organization decides not to enable it.

Wait, is Skype shutting down? 

Microsoft recently announced that Skype for Business Online is shutting down on July 31, 2021. But the consumer version of Skype, which you can download for free, isn't going anywhere. So: what's happening?