Unless you’ve been living in a cave (er -- scratch that -- aren’t we all, in the midst of this pandemic?), you know that video is prolific these days. In our Facebook and Instagram feeds, we’ve been seeing even more viral videos, ads from marketers, and personal videos from our family and friends. In fact, Hubspot predicts that marketers will continue to increase their use of video in [...]
Want a way to make your Zoom meetings more entertaining? Zoom’s software updates are adding new features all the time, and recent updates come in the form of filters and effects that you can use to make Zoom meetings fun and lighten the mood in the "room" with some humor. Some of these filters and effects are pretty crazy, so use your best judgment to decide whether or not [...]
If you’re like me, you know the struggles of working from home and parenting at the same time. The following phrases have become all too familiar in my house: “I need a snack!” “Play with me!” Or, my personal favorite (as the mom of a 4-year-old), “I pooped! Wipe me!” (Right in the middle of video conferencing with a client.) If you’re like me, you’ve also tried to figure [...]
If you’ve been allowing your team to work from home like many employers in these crazy COVID times, you might be wondering when – or even if – you’ll be asking them to make the shift to working onsite again. That “if” is a big one, for good reasons. Now, thanks to increasingly fast and reliable internet connections, along with a host of new options for collaboration software and [...]
If you're like us – and I believe most people – you can't wait to send 2020 packing. And you may well be planning to do it in style! So, toodle-oo. Goodbye. Good riddance, 2020. One great way to leave this miserable mess of months behind and not drag it with us into the shiny new year is to steer clear of the coronavirus. You know the drill: mask [...]
Big news in the world of video conferencing: Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom, has been named Time Magazine’s Businessperson of the Year for 2020. Zoom, which saw its daily meeting participants rise from 10 million to 300 million per day in April following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, has steadfastly become the go-to video conferencing platform for people all over the world, and in ways [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
