Zoom, Skype, Team..
- Thread starter Badlad
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I've only really used zoom with groups, but people I know who have used others reckon it is most user friendly - & can choose whether to see everybody (up to about 20), or just whoever's speaking, along with some of others (but can scroll across everyone). Can also break up into discussion groups.
moorebooks
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PeteHall said:
I think you will find MS Teams difficult to use if you don't have the latest windows software. Its fine in a professional setting but our club tried and a lot of people could not log into it . It took me 2 hours with a brand new laptop but only have office 365 which does not include teams. Microsoft are playing catchup so I understand
Mike
langcliffe
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What are you all talking about?
alastairgott
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... discord, google hangouts,...
Edit: damn beaten to discord.
Edit: damn beaten to discord.
gingerlycolors
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I for one had never heard of Zoom until this CoronaBusiness came along. I will be using it with my UCET mates tonight. Nothing beats the pub though, whether it is the Helwith Bridge, Hunters Lodge or Glan yr Afon. Unfortunately you are just as likely to find a pub that's open in Saudi as you are here right now!
langcliffe
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Badlad said:langcliffe said:
If you're not joking
No - still no wiser.
Robert Scott
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About a thousand years ago when I worked in an NHS provider organisation, OK 2010, we as an agile business (several 100s of users including nurses in the community) used Microsoft Lync which eventually became Skype for Business. At first we used video+voice but we soon realised that the Internet infrastructure wouldn?t really support that level of traffic so we dropped down to Voice- only. After all, we knew what each other looked like ? sometime a blessing, sometime not.
So moving on.
The Internet infrastructure now supports video+voice with ease.
The club meets for a drink on Friday evening. The chairman has arranged for an inexpensive extension to the basic Zoom package. Zoom seems to work perfectly well and its developers are enhancing its security features more than weekly.
Even my pre-teen granddaughters have dropped Google Hangouts and now contact us using Zoom. How difficult can Zoom be?
Oh, an exception! The newest. The 15 month old granddaughter is not really aware of video+voice communication. I?ll ask her when this current calamity is over ? I hope that it doesn?t interrupt her A-level studies.
So moving on.
The Internet infrastructure now supports video+voice with ease.
The club meets for a drink on Friday evening. The chairman has arranged for an inexpensive extension to the basic Zoom package. Zoom seems to work perfectly well and its developers are enhancing its security features more than weekly.
Even my pre-teen granddaughters have dropped Google Hangouts and now contact us using Zoom. How difficult can Zoom be?
Oh, an exception! The newest. The 15 month old granddaughter is not really aware of video+voice communication. I?ll ask her when this current calamity is over ? I hope that it doesn?t interrupt her A-level studies.
earthlight
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Zooming for work, but given enough attendees it becomes
andys
Well-known member
We're using Zoom for both club and family "get-not-togethers".
One thing you can do with Zoom (not sure if any of the others do it) is to set a virtual background so that whats really behind you in your video is replaced with an image of your choice. This means you can appear to be in a cave!
One thing you can do with Zoom (not sure if any of the others do it) is to set a virtual background so that whats really behind you in your video is replaced with an image of your choice. This means you can appear to be in a cave!
