If we’re going to meet remotely, let’s get the basics right
3 min readMar 18, 2020
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Some of us are used to meeting online with Zoom, Google Hangouts or Skype. To others it’s new. Meetings, webinars, conferences can be quite sophisticated but let’s ensure we get the basics right.
Avoid hybrid meetings. A hybrid meeting is one where one group of people meet in a room together and others are logging in remotely. Unless you have sophisticated conference AV equipment, the result is not ideal.
The remote participants usually can’t hear or see the people in the room very easily. That can…