You’re stuck at home, but you want to move: how personal fitness trainers can succeed on Zoom

Teresa Harris is a personal trainer and taught many types of fitness classes including Body Pump, CXWORX, and freestyle step, all on-premises in gyms and fitness centers around Charlottesville, Virginia starting over two decades ago. Then, in March of 2020, just like after a class when everyone leaves winded but energized, COVID turned off the lights and shut the doors. Teresa Harris suddenly had no place to train [...]

By |2021-01-22T12:49:33-05:00December 8th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing|0 Comments
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Zoom and a healthy dose of creativity saved the day for this senior center when COVID hit

The Center at Belvedere, a Charlottesville, Virginia senior center was right on the brink of opening the doors to its brand new facility when the COVID-19 outbreak hit effectively padlocking those doors shut.  You can watch the video interview above with or without subtitles, or read this transcript (edited for clarity and flow): Carolyn Merrick, Program Coordinator. Bio and [...]

By |2021-03-30T20:20:23-05:00December 1st, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing|0 Comments
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How Zoom Zapps increase team productivity

Anyone who uses Zoom by now knows the pain of having to flip around between apps while you’re in a meeting. The annoyance of having to flip from your Zoom meeting to that document folder, agenda, and chats is all too real (and just another contributor to Zoom fatigue). Wouldn’t it be much easier if all the apps just talked to each other and showed up in one [...]

By |2020-12-30T18:15:02-05:00November 24th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing|0 Comments
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Better than another night of Netflix: how to host a riveting virtual consumer event

For most people, there are not enough diversions from the diversions these days. In this digital age, people have become accustomed to high-quality streaming, flicking from one streaming service to another with the click of the remote. Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. If you’re hosting a virtual consumer event, competing with all these distractions can be a challenge. The bar is either [...]

By |2020-11-20T23:39:10-05:00November 17th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing, Zoom Training|0 Comments
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Meeting forward: leading in half the time with twice the results

If the average leader were to take every meeting on their calendar and cut the time in half, they would free up more than three hours per week. In a company with 100 people, that’s close to 8 weeks of time regained for deeper, more productive work. So, how do we get there? Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. We’ve learned that online [...]

By |2020-11-23T11:18:27-05:00November 10th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing, Zoom Training|0 Comments
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Inclusive leadership when the camera is on: find the right way in

Leading from home has undergone a radical transformation. It shifted from a nice-to-have to a must-have, and everything has changed. Enter the pandemic, and we know that women with children are struggling. According to Harvard Business Review, a whopping one in four women are considering downsizing their careers because of the strains remote work is putting on them. Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. [...]

By |2020-11-20T08:38:30-05:00November 3rd, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing, Zoom Training|0 Comments
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How to hold virtual holiday events your guests will actually enjoy

Tis the season! With many major holidays coming up, it’s time to get in gear and make some plans to celebrate. With social distancing still happening and with the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, some or all of those events will probably happen virtually. But with the prolific Zooming that’s been going on since March, your family and friends (and you) are likely experiencing some serious Zoom fatigue [...]

By |2020-11-29T10:16:28-05:00October 27th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing|0 Comments
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Eight must-haves for a hybrid meeting

First, there was there was the overnight switch from in-person to virtual meetings. There were over 1 billion Google searches for “working from home,” and webcams were sold out everywhere for months. Slowly, people have begun to return to the office, but room restrictions and personal safety concerns created a third alternative called the "hybrid" meeting. Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. A [...]

By |2020-11-04T16:58:18-05:00October 20th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing, Zoom Training|0 Comments
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Zoom no-nos: avoid these nine mistakes to make your meetings more professional

Zoom and other platforms, devices, and applications have taken over so much of how we communicate these days. Dropping by someone's house on the weekend has been replaced by a call, text, or Zoom invitation to share time together. Office meetings and parties are mostly online now. We recently had a virtual birthday party over Facetime which included a separate video chat with family members who live on [...]

By |2020-11-04T17:03:41-05:00October 13th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing, Zoom Training|0 Comments
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Disrupting education: the future of online learning with Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang (part three of three)

Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang is a self-described "Disruptive Educator." After achieving her career goal of teaching at the college level, she became disillusioned with our education system, and came to the conclusion that her only choice was to get out ... altogether, and start educating from a completely different angle, from a "Classroom Without Walls."   We interviewed Dr. Ai about her approach to online learning and preparing students for [...]

By |2020-11-04T17:11:13-05:00October 6th, 2020|Blog, Zoom & Video Conferencing|0 Comments
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