Best Practice on Viewing a Recording during a Live Online Session

Hi All.

I have a session coming up where our guest speaker is not able to join us live, but instead we will have to use a recording of a presentation made a few hours earlier. Like many of us here, I would normally advocate watching the recording in a

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Best Kit for Hybrid Events

Hi All.

What do you advise in terms of hardware for effective hybrid events, i.e. where some people are in the conference room and some online? I'm guessing the tech has moved on a lot in the light of the pandemic. Any tips?

Thanks

Paul

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Zoom pin and spotlight?

Hello,

I've been using the pin and spotlight options in a Zoom room today, testing it just on my own. I really can't see the difference and don't understand when I might use one over the other.

If anyone has any explanation or advice on how I can see t

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Does video increase trust and engagement?

There are some great stats in this research from Zoom.

According to their research of over 700 Zoom users, 91% say there is more engagement if they turn their webcam on.

You can read more here:

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2018/05/02/does-video-com

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Removal of a community member due to spam

Dear Community,

It's come to our attention that someone on this site has been contacting members with a spam message. Our apologies for this. The member has been removed. 

Please be aware of our code of conduct as spam messages and posts will not be

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Can anyone here offer wider training on Teams?

Hi All.

Like many people in this forum, helping people to design and deliver better live online events is at the core of what I do. But I have one client who is looking for someone to run a 1 hour webinar on the wider aspects of Microsoft Teams and ho

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Engagement fails!

Hi everyone,

Mike and I thought that our next podcast could be all about the engagement fails we've seen or experienced recently!

We were just chatting about a friend's four-hour virtual classroom this week that included:

• A boring 20+ minute ice bre

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New platform integrations and apps!

The move to virtual classrooms and digital learning and working as a whole has meant that a lot of companies are really investing development time into platforms, applications and integrations. 

Rather than a new post every time I see something inter

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Zoom link opening in browser, not app

Hi!

 

We have some participants who have the app; however, when they click on the join link, it automatically opens in the browser. Any ideas why this happens and how I can fix it?

The issue is that there are fewer amenities using the browser. Partic

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New Zoom whiteboard

Take a look at the new Zoom whiteboard! 

https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-whiteboard/

What are you looking forward to?

And if you aren't using Zoom, what do you do instead?

 

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Zoom apps and integration

Have you tried the latest Zoom features?

There are 50 new apps to pick from, ranging from survey tools to gamification. And for those of you using Mural, you can now integrate it into Zoom, has anyone tried that yet?

You can also ask Zoom to enable t

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Virtual training pet peeves?

When Adobe Connect ran a poll asking “What is your biggest pet peeve as a virtual trainer?” the results came in as:

• Distracted audience (42%)
• Participants joining late (18%)
• Forgetting to mute/unmute (17%)
• Other (23%)

I added my vote to ‘Other’ by

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