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Video Conferencing

Lefty Specialist Apr 15 2020 06:43 AM

So, in the age of Stay At Home, our video conferencing has gone through the roof. Used to be once a week with Lefty Jr on Skype. But now I'm doing a lot more for work, not to mention my wife's Happy Hour with the Girls on Tuesday, a get-together with the in-laws on Wednesday, Virtual Dinner with Friends on Friday. Been using the Google Meet I use for work for these evening events and it's been pretty solid so far. So, are you conferencing? What system do you use? Are you wearing pants?

Ceetar Apr 15 2020 07:02 AM Re: Video Conferencing

a friend signed up for a real zoom account, we've had weekly happy hour/nightcap calls the last two weeks. my local brewery is having an Order of the Atom 'mug club' meeting tonight that I may or may not attend. We've done a few skype calls with my parents for the kids that we don't usually because we see them regularly. The Kindergartener has zoom'd with her Daisy troop, and is (sometimes) doing ballet that way. She's got a 10:30 zoom with her class today, mainly because I don't think her teacher knows how Google Meet works, which seems more secure and less problematic than zoom. I like customizing the background though. that's fun.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 15 2020 07:53 AM Re: Video Conferencing

Every one. My company is pushing us to do Teams. We do live conferences thru Zoom (they're on facebook yo), had meetings on Google and even Dischord. All the same diff to me though some say Zoom isn't secure enuf. What do i know

Willets Point Apr 15 2020 07:55 AM Re: Video Conferencing

All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom...

Ceetar Apr 15 2020 09:09 AM Re: Video Conferencing

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Every one. My company is pushing us to do Teams. We do live conferences thru Zoom (they're on facebook yo), had meetings on Google and even Dischord. All the same diff to me though some say Zoom isn't secure enuf. What do i know companies seem to like team because it's packaged in sharepoint/office365/etc. I find it clunky and bleh for the most part, like most of Microsoft, though granted I haven't used video conferencing with it.

Edgy MD Apr 15 2020 09:37 AM Re: Video Conferencing

I'm not cool with trying to get a refined level of usage on multiple different platforms at once.

cal sharpie Apr 15 2020 12:14 PM Re: Video Conferencing

We use Webex at work and I'm on it every weekday, sometimes multiple times. We've zoomed with our kids and my wife's cousins.

kcmets Apr 15 2020 12:25 PM Re: Video Conferencing

Dinosaur Q: So I take it Skype has like totally Kodak-ed up?