Working From Home For Dummies

Chapter 10

Connecting with Others via Zoom Meetings

IN THIS CHAPTER

Starting with meeting basics

Acting as a meeting host

Taking action during meetings

Some people eschew actually talking to others at all costs. Others need to talk about everything — even when sending a quick message would do the trick.

Ideally, you don’t fall into either category. You understand that when it comes to communication, one size doesn’t fit all. Sometimes firing off a quick message is easiest. In other cases, hashing out a nuanced issue at work requires a real-time conversation — not a flurry of emails. Aside from business scenarios, people want to hear the voices and see the faces of the most important people in their lives: friends, family members, and significant others. It’s a basic human need.

This chapter details Zoom’s most popular service: meetings. Zoom designed its flagship product from the ground up. The result is a modern, robust, convenient, consistent, reliable, intuitive, and user-friendly experience. As a result, Zoom makes holding single- and multi-person video and audio meetings a breeze. The phrase ridiculously simple comes to mind.

Bottom line: If you rue the very idea of a video ...