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Zoom, Skype, Team..

Badlad

Badlad

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... Goto, messenger, house party, jitsi etc.  We're all using them now.

Which one wins for you?
 
For work, we all use MS Teams, so that is what I've got used to and default to for social use as well.

That said, it's not so good if there are more than 5 people as it only shows the 4 most recent contributors (plus your own thumbnail).
 
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.
 
Zoom seems to work well for socially isolated drinking. Our club quizzes are on zoom. Other club chats using Discord
 
PeteHall said:
For work, we all use MS Teams, so that is what I've got used to and default to for social use as well.

That said, it's not so good if there are more than 5 people as it only shows the 4 most recent contributors (plus your own thumbnail).
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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
 
Jitsi is good as it is used via a web front-end with no need to install anything on your computer. It would be nice if there were only one option though as I have had to use five different packages so far with either work, caving club or other organisations...
 
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 said:
What are you all talking about?
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  :clap2:  If you're not joking  :)  video conferencing, video chat systems.  You know wot we are all using to keep in touch with our family, friends, clubs, orgs etc
 
It's basically a way for a lot of people to see each other on their computer screen and hearing "You're on mute!" quite a lot.
 
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.
 
Zooming for work, but given enough attendees it becomes

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Robert Scott said:
used Microsoft Lync which eventually became Skype for Business.
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and now Skype for business is being gradually replaced with Microsoft Teams.

I've used Zoom and Skype socially, and Skype for business professionally. Would say Zoom would be my favourite, however is limited to 40 minutes unless you pay.
 
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!
 
I seemed to have ended up with Teams for work, Skype for family, and Skype/Zoom for friends.

andys said:
One thing you can do with Zoom (not sure if any of the others do it)  is to set a virtual background
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I think they all do it, but Teams has been the least prone to peoples' limbs etc. randomly disappearing into the background in my experience!
 
We used Google Hang Outs for the recent BCA QMC meeting and had 12 people online at once. It worked very well.
Mary
 
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