Over the past year I have asked visitors to my website about what they use PowerPoint for the most in Teams and Zoom. I had the same poll on my two pages about different ways to share PowerPoint slides in a virtual meeting, one page for Teams and one page for Zoom. The pages got…
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Virtual and Hybrid meeting skills will be needed in the future according to SurveyMonkey poll
SurveyMonkey, the online survey and poll company, recently did a poll that asked people about the future of work. Among the questions they asked was one related to where people preferred to attend different types of meetings. The choices were: in person at workplace, virtually from home, not applicable, and no answer. Not everyone attends…
More ways to engage virtual attendees; Issue #491 June 1, 2021
Last June in the newsletter I shared my article on 8 ways to engage audiences in a virtual presentation. Today I want to add four more ways you can engage attendees in a virtual presentation. Some of these methods are possible because of new features added to Teams and Zoom in the past year. Use…
Collaborate with others using PowerPoint on the web in a virtual or hybrid meeting
Collaborating in PowerPoint If you need a group to brainstorm and analyze ideas or organize tasks, if you need a group to collaborate to come up with an agreed upon process flow, the common approach in the past has been to get everyone involved in a room and work together. You need everyone to see…
Zoom survey confirms business meetings are moving towards a hybrid model in the future
Yesterday Zoom released the results of a survey of people from around the world to get a sense of which virtual activities they would like to see continue in the future. In the section for business gatherings, defined primarily as meetings, it is clear that people expect a mix of in-person and virtual meetings in…
Edge browser tips for virtual meetings; Issue #489 May 4, 2021
You can use the Edge browser in Windows to make your next virtual presentation on Zoom, Teams, Webex, or Google Meet more effective. With more and more content being available on the web and the capabilities of browsers improving, using a browser to share content in virtual and hybrid meetings will be an important skill…
PowerPoint Slide Show preview plus Notes view as an alternative to Presenter View (1 monitor/screen, Windows)
Perhaps the single biggest challenge to presenting virtually from home has been how to see your speaking notes and share your slides in PowerPoint if you only have one screen or monitor (likely your laptop screen). This has been a challenge for presenters on all platforms: Zoom, Teams, Webex, Google Meet, and others. I have…
Using the new (Spring 2021) Microsoft Teams Share dialog
Microsoft has started rolling out a new sharing dialog in Teams and I have started to see it this past week. Here are some of the changes that have been made and one issue that you need to be aware of. The rollout is still happening so if you haven’t seen this new dialog yet…
Windows Edge browser tips to use in your next virtual presentation on Zoom, Teams, Meet, or Webex
In the past I’ve published articles and videos on: Using a browser to play a YouTube video so you have more control over what segment is played and you can add captions (article for Teams and for Zoom) Using Google Slides Presenter View in a browser to see your speaking notes when you only have…
Prepare for hybrid meetings; Issue #488 April 20, 2021
In this newsletter I shared my article based on Microsoft’s Winter 2021 Work Index survey that clearly showed workers want more flexibility in where they work. This is going to lead to hybrid meetings, where some attendees are in a meeting rom and other attendees are attending virtually. I have created a guide to hybrid…